Mid West (Western Australia)

The Mid West is one of the nine regions of Western Australia, with a population of 52,000 in 2006, and with Geraldton as its only large town. Its people and facilities are concentrated on the coast, but it stretches a long, long way inland, to small mining towns and harsh desert. The Mid West has boundaries with the Gascoyne Region to the northwest, the Pilbara to the north, the Goldfields Region to the east and southeast, the Wheatbelt to the south and the Indian Ocean to the West.