The Northern Territory is an Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west, South
Thomas Baines with Aboriginal Australians near the mouth of the Victoria River.
The Letters Patent annexing the Northern Territory to South Australia, 1863
The northern coast of Australia is on the left, with Melville Island in the lower right.
Mount Sonder, the fourth-highest mountain in the Northern Territory after nearby Mount Zeil, in West MacDonnell National Park
Darwin is the capital and largest city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city had a population of 139,902 at the 2021 census, which is nearly 63% of the territory's population. It is the small
Northern Territory
…with a population of only 260,400 as of March 2025 – fewer than half the population of Tasmania. The largest population centre is the capital city of Darwin, having about 52.6% of the Territory's population. The largest inland settlement is Alice Springs with a population of about 25,000 people. The…
Aerial view of the Darwin Convention Centre
Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, Darwin, 2021, 02