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The Northern Territory (formally the Northern Territory of Australia) (curtailed NT) is an Australian domain in the focal and focal northern locales of Australia. It offers outskirts with Western Australia toward the west (129th meridian east), South Australia toward the south (26th parallel south), and Queensland toward the east (138th meridian east). Toward the north, the domain watches out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other Indonesian islands. The NT covers 1,349,129 square kilometers (520,902 sq mi), making it the third-biggest Australian government division, and the eleventh biggest nation subdivision on the planet. It is scantily populated, with a populace of just 245,800, making it the least-crowded of Australia's six states and two regions, with less than half the same number of individuals as Tasmania.

The archeological history of the Northern Territory starts more than 40,000 years prior when Indigenous Australians settled the area. Makassan merchants started exchanging with the indigenous individuals of the Northern Territory for trepang from in any event the eighteenth century onwards. The bank of the domain was first observed by Europeans in the seventeenth century. The British were the main Europeans to endeavor to settle the beach front areas. After three bombed endeavors to set up a settlement (1824–28, 1838–49, and 1864–66), achievement was accomplished in 1869 with the foundation of a settlement at Port Darwin. Today the economy depends on the travel industry, particularly Kakadu National Park in the Top End and the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park (Ayers Rock) in focal Australia, and mining.

The capital and biggest city is Darwin. The populace is moved in beach front districts and along the Stuart Highway. The other significant settlements are (arranged by size) Palmerston, Alice Springs, Katherine, Nhulunbuy and Tennant Creek. Inhabitants of the Northern Territory are frequently referred to just as "Territorians" and completely as "Northern Territorians", or all the more casually as "Top Enders" and "Centralians".