Top 20 most populous states, provinces and regions · 🇦🇺 Australia
World > country: the biggest first-level regions
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Why these 20
Population of each country's first-level regions (states, provinces, prefectures, oblasts) from Wikidata, which takes it from census offices. Where Wikidata has figures for several years the highest is used, which is usually the latest census; regions that shrink may show an older, larger figure.
- 1 N
- 2 V
- 3 Q
- 4 W
- 5 S
- 6 T
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7
A
Australian Capital Territory
federal governing territory of Australia, containing the capital city, Canberra
481,700
- 8 N
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9
N
Norfolk Island
external territory of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean, consisting of the island of the same name plus neighbouring islands
2,188
- 10 C
- 11 C
- 12 J
- 13 C
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14
H
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Australian external territory and volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands
0
- 15 A
How it is measured
Wikidata: the first-level divisions each country lists as its own (P150, contains the administrative territorial entity) that have a population (P1082) and no dissolution date; grouped by country, the world view is built from the countries.
References
- Wikidata query: first-level regions by population, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-20 04:46 UTC.
