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Northern Territory

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Noun

1. northern territory

a territory in north central Australia

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Northern Territory

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noun
an administrative division of N central Australia, on the Timor and Arafura Seas: the Arunta Desert lies in the east, the Macdonnell Ranges in the south, and Arnhem Land in the north (containing Australia's largest Aboriginal reservation); the Ashmore and Cartier Islands constitute a separate Australian External Territory. Capital: Darwin. Pop: 233 300 (2012 est). Area: 1 347 525 sq km (520 280 sq miles)

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Northern Territory

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self-governing territory of N Australia, on the Arafura Sea: 519,770 sq mi (1,346,199 sq km); pop. 174,000; cap. Darwin

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Northern Territory

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A territory of northern Australia west of Queensland. Colonized by the British after the 1830s, the Northern Territory remains very sparsely populated. Darwin is the capital and largest city.

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