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When used as a verb, eighty-six, eighty-sixed, 86, 86ed, or 86'd is American English slang for getting rid of something, ejecting someone, or refusing service.
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1 Meaning
2 Etymology
3 Popular uses of term
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Meaning[edit]
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, "86" is a slang term that is used in the American popular culture as a transitive verb to mean throw out or get rid of, particularly in the food service industry as a term to describe an item no longer available on the menu, or to refuse service to a customer.[1] The Merriam Webster dictionary suggests the term may be associated with the word "nix" ("no" or a more general prohibition).[1]
Etymology[edit]
Several possible origins of the term 86 have been suggested, all dated before the 1950s.
United States Navy decommissioning: One possible origin is from the U.S. Navy's Allowance Type (AT) coding system used for logistics. The allowance type code is a single digit that identifies the reason that materiel is being carried in stock. Throughout the life-cycle of a warship, many pieces of equipment are upgraded or replaced, requiring onboard spare parts to be disposed of, and the code is AT-6 for parts designated for disposal.[2] Following World War II, there were a great number of warships being decommissioned, sold, scrapped, or deactivated and placed in reserve (commonly referred to as "mothballed"). During this process, labor workers would bring up spare parts from the storerooms and the supply clerk would tell them the AT code. Anything to be disposed of was referred to as AT-6—which sounds like "86".
Looking north at Chumley's, 86 Bedford St, West Village.
86 Bedford Street: Author Jef Klein theorizes that the bar Chumley's at 86 Bedford Street in the West Village of Lower Manhattan was the source. Klein's 2006 book The History and Stories of the Best Bars of New York claims that the police would call Chumley's bar during prohibition before making a raid and tell the bartender to "86" his customers, meaning that they should exit out the 86 Bedford Street door, while the police would come to the Pamela Court entrance.[3]
Restaurant slang: Another notion of the term's origin claims that it came from a code supposedly used in some restaurants among restaurant workers in the 1930s,[4] where 86 meant "we're all out of it." Walter Winchell published examples of similar restaurant slang in his newspaper column in 1933, which he presented as part of a "glossary of soda-fountain lingo."[5]
Documented 1944 use: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first verifiable use of 86 in the sense of "refuse service to" dates to a 1944 book about John Barrymore, a movie star of the 1920s famous for his acting and infamous for his drinking: "There was a bar in the Belasco building ... but Barrymore was known in that cubby as an 'eighty-six'. An 'eighty-six', in the patois of western dispensers, means: 'Don't serve him.'"[6]
Popular uses of term[edit]
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1947: In the song "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" by Louis Jordan, one line is "86 on the cherry pies" as one of many examples of short-order restaurant lingo.
1957: The main character in Gore Vidal's play Visit to a Small Planet[7] uses the command "86" numerous times to destroy things.
In the television series Get Smart, agent Maxwell Smart was code-named Agent 86.
1973: Thomas Pynchon used the term "86" in Gravity's Rainbow: "They did finally 86 him out of Massachusetts Bay Colony."
1989: David B. Feinberg published the novel "Eighty-sixed" contrasting life in New York just before HIV to life in 1986 when AIDS had become a major health crisis in the city.
Filmmaker Dave Markey made a documentary about the final tour of the infamous hardcore punk band Black Flag entitled Reality 86'd. The movie was filmed in 1986 during the band's final tour, but wasn't released until 1991.
Dan Fante's 2009 novel 86'd is about a man who gets fired and battles his alcoholism.[8]
Cars's main antagonist Chick Hicks has this number which means he rammed other cars and got rid of them.
2015: The song "The Remedy" on the album Money Shot by Puscifer contains the line "Trolls receive 86's" meaning there is a zero tolerance policy for inappropriate behavior.
See also[edit]
List of restaurant terminology
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Eighty-six - Definition of eighty-six by Merriam-Webster". merriam-webster.com.
Jump up ^ NAVSUP P-485 Volume II (PDF). Defense Logistics Agency. p. 369.
Jump up ^ Klein, Jef (2006). The History and Stories of the Best Bars of New York. Turner Publishing Company.
Jump up ^ "What does '86'd' or '86 It' Mean in Restaurant Jargon?". Culinary Lore. March 8, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
Jump up ^ "linguistlist.org: Soda Jerk Slang & Coney Island Chicken (Winchell, 1933)". linguistlist.org.
Jump up ^ "snopes.com: Etymology of 86". snopes.com.
Jump up ^ New York Times, "The Theatre: 'Visit to a Small Planet'; Vidal's Foolish Notion Is Staged at Booth The Cast," by Brooks Atkinson; February 8, 1957, page 18
Jump up ^ "Dan Fante, Confronting His Demons On The Page". NPR.org. 29 September 2009.
External links[edit]
Look up eighty-six in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
"eighty-six"="nix" Yaelf.com, the alt.usage.english FAQ
Snopes.com: Etymology of the slang term "86"
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List of the busiest airports in the United States
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These are lists of the busiest airports in the United States, based on various ranking criteria.
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1 Busiest US airports by total passenger boardings
2 45 busiest US airports by total passenger traffic (2015)
3 20 busiest US airports by international passenger traffic (2016)
4 10 busiest airports in the US by total cargo throughput (2015)
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Busiest US airports by total passenger boardings[edit]
The FAA uses passenger boarding for a full calendar year to determine Airport Improvement Program (AIP) entitlements.[1]
The term hub is used by the FAA to identify very busy commercial service airports. For instance, large hubs are those airports that each account for at least one percent of total U.S. passenger enplanements. Medium hubs are defined as airports that each account for between 0.25 percent and one percent of the total passenger enplanements. According to preliminary FAA data, in 2014 there were 30 large hubs and 30 medium hubs.
Rank
(2016)
Airports (large hubs)
IATA
Code
Major city served
State
2017
2016[2]
2015[3]
2014[4]
2013[5]
2012[6]
2011[7]
2010[8]
2009[9]
2008[9]
2007[10]
2006[11]
2005[12]
1 Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport ATL Atlanta GA 51,916,451 50,501,858 49,340,732 46,604,273 45,308,407 45,798,809 44,414,121 43,130,585 42,280,868 43,236,665 43,236,665 41,352,038 42,402,653
2 Los Angeles International Airport LAX Los Angeles CA 42,459,545 39,636,042 36,351,226 34,314,197 32,425,892 31,326,268 30,528,737 28,857,755 27,439,897 28,861,477 30,113,985 29,357,327 29,372,272
3 O'Hare International Airport ORD Chicago IL 37,589,899 36,305,668 33,686,811 32,317,835 32,171,743 31,892,301 32,171,831 31,135,732 33,683,991 36,521,585 36,825,097 36,720,005
4 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport DFW Dallas/Fort Worth TX 33,528,927 31,283,579 31,589,832 30,766,940 29,038,128 28,022,877 27,518,358 27,100,656 26,663,984 27,219,985 28,482,417 28,627,749 28,079,147
5 Denver International Airport DEN Denver CO 30,714,011 28,267,394 26,280,043 26,000,591 25,496,885 25,799,832 25,667,499 25,241,962 24,013,669 24,287,939 20,796,173 20,591,909 20,315,544
6 John F. Kennedy International Airport JFK New York NY 29,458,297 29,239,151 27,782,369 26,244,928 25,036,358 24,520,943 23,664,830 22,934,047 22,710,272 23,620,948 23,401,351 21,071,501 20,260,359
7 San Francisco International Airport SFO San Francisco CA 27,862,429 25,707,101 24,190,549 22,756,008 21,704,626 21,284,224 20,038,679 19,359,003 18,467,908 18,135,827 17,280,328 16,236,592 16,070,133
8 McCarran International Airport LAS Las Vegas NV 24,248,814 22,833,267 21,824,231 20,551,016 19,946,179 19,941,173 19,854,759 18,996,738 19,445,952 21,024,443 22,537,950 22,028,521 21,402,676
9 Seattle–Tacoma International Airport SEA Seattle/Tacoma WA 23,518,824 21,887,110 21,231,781 18,781,489 17,450,425 16,625,787 16,425,732 15,406,243 15,273,092 15,839,504 15,419,116 14,703,928 14,359,530
10 Charlotte Douglas International Airport CLT Charlotte NC 22,917,874 22,173,747 21,913,166 21,542,277 21,346,601 20,032,426 19,022,535 18,629,181 18,165,476 19,291,428 16,884,780 14,949,568 14,109,608
11 Orlando International Airport MCO Orlando FL 22,215,929 20,283,541 18,759,938 17,278,608 16,884,524 17,159,425 17,250,415 17,017,491 16,371,016 17,288,480 17,614,679 16,807,856 16,592,133
12 Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport PHX Phoenix AZ 22,016,714 20,896,265 21,351,445 20,344,867 19,525,109 19,556,189 19,750,306 18,907,171 18,559,647 19,450,576 20,767,144 20,479,291 19,032,196
13 Miami International Airport MIA Miami FL 21,747,189 20,875,813 20,986,341 19,468,523 19,420,089 18,987,488 18,342,158 17,017,654 16,187,768 16,377,488 16,194,162 15,664,791 15,092,763
14 Newark Liberty International Airport EWR Newark NJ 21,507,885 19,834,792 19,923,009 17,680,826 17,546,506 17,035,098 16,814,092 16,571,754 16,659,441 17,599,578 18,163,652 17,804,107 16,444,959
15 George Bush Intercontinental Airport IAH Houston TX 20,367,204 20,062,072 20,595,874 19,772,054 18,952,840 19,038,958 19,306,660 19,528,631 19,290,239 20,030,898 24,117,623 22,822,111 20,799,886
16 Logan International Airport BOS Boston MA 19,145,096 17,749,202 17,759,044 15,425,869 14,810,153 14,293,675 14,171,476 13,561,814 12,566,797 12,820,489 13,783,297 13,544,552 13,214,923
17 Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport MSP Minneapolis/St. Paul MN 19,002,544 18,123,844 17,634,252 16,972,678 16,280,835 15,943,751 15,895,653 15,512,487 15,551,206 16,369,324 16,962,563 17,192,410 17,971,771
18 Detroit Metropolitan Airport DTW Detroit MI 17,325,600 16,826,287 16,847,135 15,775,941 15,683,523 15,599,877 15,716,865 15,643,890 15,211,402 16,998,174 17,495,135 17,483,468 17,580,363
19 Philadelphia International Airport PHL Philadelphia PA 14,760,585 14,564,419 15,101,318 14,747,112 14,727,945 14,587,631 14,883,180 14,951,254 15,002,961 15,586,852 15,656,653 15,390,848 15,376,569
20 LaGuardia Airport LGA New York NY 14,737,834 14,706,123 14,762,593 13,415,797 13,372,269 12,818,717 11,989,227 12,001,501 11,084,300 11,567,586 12,529,890 12,925,697 13,014,314
21 Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport FLL Fort Lauderdale FL 16,216,686 14,263,270 13,061,607 11,987,607 11,538,140 11,445,101 11,332,466 10,829,810 10,258,118 11,020,091 11,079,250 10,204,579 10,729,468
22 Baltimore–Washington International Airport BWI Baltimore/Washington, D.C. MD 13,214,185 12,340,972 11,738,828 11,022,200 11,132,731 11,183,965 11,067,317 10,848,633 10,338,950 10,215,225 10,487,789 10,297,607 9,829,432
23 Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport DCA Washington, D.C. VA 11,966,354 11,470,854 11,242,375 10,057,794 9,838,034 9,462,206 9,053,004 8,736,804 8,490,288 8,704,466 9,038,174 8,973,410 8,623,907
24 Salt Lake City International Airport SLC Salt Lake City UT 12,098,835 11,143,738 10,634,519 10,139,065 9,668,048 9,579,836 9,701,756 9,910,493 9,903,821 9,993,198 10,560,906 10,289,129 10,601,918
25 Midway International Airport MDW Chicago IL 11,044,353 11,044,387 10,318,311 9,915,646 9,431,796 9,134,576 8,518,957 8,253,620 8,021,383 9,132,836 8,915,292 8,383,698
26 Washington Dulles International Airport IAD Washington, D.C. VA 11,407,107 10,596,942 10,363,918 10,415,948 10,570,993 10,785,683 11,043,829 11,276,481 11,132,098 11,348,775 11,789,441 11,045,217 13,032,502
27 San Diego International Airport SAN San Diego CA 11,107,078 10,340,164 9,985,739 9,333,152 8,878,772 8,686,592 8,465,683 8,430,509 8,453,854 9,007,617 9,138,116 8,724,442 8,628,648
28 Daniel K. Inouye International Airport HNL Honolulu HI 9,656,340 9,656,340 9,463,000 9,466,995 9,210,270 8,643,494 8,740,077 8,739,389 9,013,440 10,393,929 9,855,838 9,784,404
29 Tampa International Airport TPA Tampa FL 9,830,583 9,194,994 9,150,414 8,531,561 8,267,752 8,216,153 8,174,194 8,137,222 8,263,294 8,871,917 9,306,036 9,187,865 9,297,643
30 Portland International Airport PDX Portland OR 9,538,472 9,071,154 8,340,234 7,878,760 7,452,603 7,142,620 6,808,486 6,582,227 6,430,119 7,090,526 7,281,057 6,956,712 6,798,976
Rank
(2016)
Airports (Medium Hubs)
IATA
Code
City Served
State
2017
2016
2015[2]
2014[1]
31 Dallas Love Field DAL Dallas TX 7,876,769 7,554,596 7,040,921 4,522,341
32 St. Louis Lambert International Airport STL St. Louis MO 7,372,805 6,793,076 6,239,231 6,108,758
33 Nashville International Airport BNA Nashville TN 7,015,119 6,338,517 5,708,852 5,396,958
34 William P. Hobby Airport HOU Houston TX 6,741,870 6,285,181 5,937,944 5,800,726
35 Austin-Bergstrom International Airport AUS Austin TX 6,973,115 6,095,545 5,797,547 5,219,982
36 Oakland International Airport OAK Oakland CA 6,530,308 5,934,639 5,506,672 5,069,257
37 Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport MSY New Orleans LA 6,005,527 5,569,705 5,329,696 4,870,569
38 Raleigh-Durham International Airport RDU Raleigh/Durham NC 5,851,004 5,401,714 4,954,717 4,673,869
39 Kansas City International Airport MCI Kansas City MO 5,744,918 5,391,557 5,135,127 4,982,722
40 Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport SJC San Jose CA 6,225,148 5,321,603 4,885,690 4,621,003
41 John Wayne Airport SNA Santa Ana CA 5,195,047 5,217,242 4,945,175 4,584,147
42 Sacramento International Airport SMF Sacramento CA 5,460,526 4,969,366 4,816,440 4,384,616
43 Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport SJU San Juan PR 4,343,354 4,218,785 4,150,828
44 San Antonio International Airport SAT San Antonio TX 4,521,611 4,179,994 4,091,389 4,046,856
45 Southwest Florida International Airport RSW Fort Myers FL 4,461,304 4,277,214 4,159,212 3,942,387
46 Indianapolis International Airport IND Indianapolis IN 4,376,432 4,216,766 3,889,567 3,605,908
47 Cleveland Hopkins International Airport CLE Cleveland OH 4,562,740 4,205,739 4,083,476 3,686,315
48 Pittsburgh International Airport PIT Pittsburgh PA 3,986,114 3,890,677 3,827,860
49 John Glenn Columbus International Airport CMH Columbus OH 3,765,007 3,567,864 3,312,496 3,115,501
50 General Mitchell International Airport MKE Milwaukee WI 3,121,910 3,327,536 3,229,876 3,228,607
51 Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport CVG Cincinnati/Covington OH/KY 3,926,158 3,269,979 3,036,697 2,874,684
52 Kahului Airport OGG Kahului HI 3,352,813 3,220,753 3,019,338
53 Palm Beach International Airport PBI West Palm Beach FL 3,166,532 3,100,624 3,113,485 2,926,242
54 Bradley International Airport BDL Hartford CT 3,214,976 2,982,194 2,926,047 2,913,380
55 Jacksonville International Airport JAX Jacksonville FL 2,759,067 2,729,129 2,716,465 2,589,198
56 Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport ANC Anchorage AK 2,563,524 2,525,876 2,381,826
57 Albuquerque International Sunport ABQ Albuquerque NM 2,483,861 2,341,719 2,323,850 2,354,184
58 Buffalo Niagara International Airport BUF Buffalo NY 2,313,724 2,331,545 2,378,469
59 Eppley Airfield OMA Omaha NE 2,303,223 2,127,387 2,046,155 2,020,354
60 Hollywood Burbank Airport BUR Burbank CA 2,365,361 2,104,625 1,972,531 1,931,948
45 busiest US airports by total passenger traffic (2015)[edit]
Listed according to data compiled by Airports Council International North America, and ranked according to total passengers during 2015.[13]
This list has the same 99 airports as the FAA list, but the order is slightly different. The FAA ranks by passengers boarding. ACI ranks by sum of boarding, disembarking, and flying through without leaving airplane. The statistics are slightly more than twice as high.
Rank
Airport name
Location
IATA
Code
Traffic
Aircraft
Passengers
% chg.
2014/15
Movements
% chg.
2014/15
1 Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport Atlanta, Georgia ATL 101,491,106 05.5 882,497 01.6
2 Chicago O'Hare International Airport Chicago, Illinois ORD 76,949,504 09.8 875,136 00.8
3 Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles, California LAX 74,937,004 06.0 655,564 03.0
4 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas DFW 64,074,762 00.3 681,261 00.2
5 John F. Kennedy International Airport New York, New York JFK 56,827,154 06.8 438,897 03.7
6 Denver International Airport Denver, Colorado DEN 54,014,502 01.0 541,213 04.3
7 San Francisco International Airport San Francisco, California SFO 50,057,887 06.2 429,815 00.4
8 McCarran International Airport Las Vegas, Nevada LAS 45,443,900 05.8 530,330 01.5
9 Charlotte Douglas International Airport Charlotte, North Carolina CLT 44,876,627 01.3 543,944 00.2
10 Miami International Airport Miami, Florida MIA 44,350,247 08.3 412,915 02.5
11 Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Phoenix, Arizona PHX 44,003,840 04.5 440,411 02.3
12 George Bush Intercontinental Airport Houston, Texas IAH 43,023,224 04.3 502,844 01.2
13 Seattle–Tacoma International Airport SeaTac, Washington SEA 42,340,537 012.9 381,408 012
14 Orlando International Airport Orlando, Florida MCO 38,727,749 08.4 308,169 06.1
15 Newark Liberty International Airport Newark, New Jersey EWR 37,494,704 05.3 415,534 05.1
16 Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota MSP 36,582,854 04.1 404,612 01.9
17 Logan International Airport Boston, Massachusetts BOS 33,515,905 05.9 372,930 02.5
18 Detroit Metropolitan Airport Romulus, Michigan DTW 33,440,112 02.8 379,376 03.4
19 Philadelphia International Airport Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PHL 31,444,403 02.3 411,368 01.9
20 LaGuardia Airport New York, New York LGA 28,437,668 05.5 360,274 00.3
21 Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport Fort Lauderdale, Florida FLL 26,941,671 09.3 278,002 07.6
22 Baltimore–Washington International Airport Linthicum, Maryland BWI 23,823,532 06.8 246,454 00.5
23 Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Arlington, Virginia DCA 23,012,191 010.7 292,781 03.4
24 Chicago Midway International Airport Chicago, Illinois MDW 22,221,499 04.9 253,519 01.7
25 Salt Lake City International Airport Salt Lake City, Utah SLC 22,152,498 04.8 311,857 04.0
26 Washington Dulles International Airport Dulles, Virginia IAD 21,498,902 00.4 269,070 07.0
27 San Diego International Airport San Diego, California SAN 20,081,258 07.1 194,215 01.3
28 Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Honolulu, Hawaii HNL 19,869,707 01.5 312,655 00.5
29 Tampa International Airport Tampa, Florida TPA 18,815,425 07.2 189,865 03.2
30 Portland International Airport Portland, Oregon PDX 16,850,952 05.9 218,021 00.8
31 Dallas Love Field Dallas, Texas DAL 14,497,498 054.0 216,099 018.1
32 Lambert–St. Louis International Airport St. Louis, Missouri STL 12,752,331 03.0 185,865 01.1
33 William P. Hobby Airport Houston, Texas HOU 12,163,344 01.8 200,587 04.7
34 Austin–Bergstrom International Airport Austin, Texas AUS 11,897,959 011.0 191,193 04.8
35 Nashville International Airport Nashville, Tennessee BNA 11,673,633 05.7 184,421 04.6
36 Oakland International Airport Oakland, California OAK 11,205,063 08.4 215,750 05.9
37 Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport New Orleans, Louisiana MSY 10,868,827 09.3 N/A N/A
38 Kansas City International Airport Kansas City, Missouri MCI 10,472,461 03.0 N/A N/A
39 John Wayne Airport Santa Ana, California SNA 10,180,258 08.5 260,689 03.2
40 Raleigh–Durham International Airport Morrisville, North Carolina RDU 9,943,331 04.2 N/A N/A
41 Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport San Jose, California SJC 9,799,427 04.4 N/A N/A
42 Sacramento International Airport Sacramento, California SMF 9,609,880 07.1 N/A N/A
43 San Antonio International Airport San Antonio, Texas SAT 8,507,459 01.6 N/A N/A
44 Southwest Florida International Airport Fort Myers, Florida RSW 8,371,801 05.0 N/A N/A
45 Pittsburgh International Airport Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PIT 8,988,016 01.6 N/A N/A
20 busiest US airports by international passenger traffic (2016)[edit]
Listed according to data compiled by the Office of Aviation Analysis, part of the United States Department of Transportation, and ranked according to total international passengers during 2016.[14]
Rank
Airport Name
Location
IATA
Code
Traffic
Passengers
% chg.
2016/15
1 John F. Kennedy International Airport New York City, New York JFK 31,305,193 06.3%
2 Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles, California LAX 22,177,994 010.1%
3 Miami International Airport Miami, Florida MIA 19,688,934 02.0%
4 O'Hare International Airport Chicago, Illinois ORD 11,917,782 03.8%
5 San Francisco International Airport San Mateo County, California SFO 11,835,425 07.6%
6 Newark Liberty International Airport Newark, New Jersey EWR 11,757,112 01.5%
7 Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport Atlanta, Georgia ATL 11,194,192 03.8%
8 George Bush Intercontinental Airport Houston, Texas IAH 10,780,277 02.1%
9 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas DFW 7,821,342 03.1%
10 Washington Dulles International Airport Dulles, Virginia IAD 7,117,880 01.6%
11 Logan International Airport Boston, Massachusetts BOS 5,842,669 016.4%
12 Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Broward County, Florida FLL 5,642,557 09.3%
13 Orlando International Airport Orlando, Florida MCO 5,417,295 08.8%
14 Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Honolulu, Hawaii HNL 5,084,453 01.6%
15 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport SeaTac, Washington SEA 4,626,762 06.3%
16 Philadelphia International Airport Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PHL 3,685,920 08.0%
17 McCarran International Airport Paradise, Nevada LAS 3,497,658 02.7%
18 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport Romulus, Michigan DTW 3,263,216 00.3%
19 Charlotte Douglas International Airport Charlotte, North Carolina CLT 2,967,941 00.4%
20 Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport Barrigada and Tamuning, Guam GUM 2,953,930 03.1%
10 busiest airports in the US by total cargo throughput (2015)[edit]
Main article: List of largest cargo airports in the United States
Listed according to data compiled by the Federal Aviation Administration for the United States, and ranked according to total cargo throughput in pounds during 2015.[15]
Rank
Airport Name
Location
IATA
Code
Cargo
Ibs.
% chg.
2015/14
1 Memphis International Airport Memphis, Tennessee MEM 22,679,195,919 0-0.42%
2 Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Anchorage, Alaska ANC 17,139,250,601 08.01%
3 Louisville International Airport Louisville, Kentucky SDF 12,057,543,654 04.23%
4 O'Hare International Airport Chicago, Illinois ORD 9,063,649,529 020.19%
5 Miami International Airport Miami, Florida MIA 7,630,761,702 06.09%
6 Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles, California LAX 6,585,460,219 053.24%
7 Indianapolis International Airport Indianapolis, Indiana IND 5,324,737,760 0-0.58%
8 Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport Hebron, Kentucky CVG 4,019,745,706 010.30%
9 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas DFW 3,328,784,075 05.99%
10 John F. Kennedy International Airport New York, New York JFK 3,255,916,985 02.68%
See also[edit]
List of the busiest airports in California
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Statistics" (PDF). faa.gov. 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy16-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf
Jump up ^ "Calendar Year 2015 Revenue Enplanements at Commercial Service Airports". Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
Jump up ^ "CY 2014 Primary Airports -- Preliminary Data" (PDF).
Jump up ^ "CY 2013 Primary Airports" (PDF).
Jump up ^ "CY 2012 Primary Airports" (PDF).
Jump up ^ "CY 2011 Primary Airports" (PDF).
Jump up ^ CY 2010 Enplanements at Primary Airports Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Jump up to: a b "Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) and All-Cargo Data for U.S. Airports – Airports". www.faa.gov.
Jump up ^ "Federal Aviation Administration 2007 passenger boarding statistics" (PDF).
Jump up ^ "Federal Aviation Administration 2006 passenger boarding statistics" (PDF).
Jump up ^ "Federal Aviation Administration 2005 passenger boarding statistics" (PDF).
Jump up ^ "Airport Traffic Reports". Airports Council International - North America. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
Jump up ^ U.S. International Air Passenger and Freight Statistics, December 2016 (pdf) (Report). International Aviation Developments Series. U.S. Department of Transportation. 2018. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
Jump up ^ "U.S. Airports" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
External links[edit]
United States Department of Transportation:
"Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel: 2008 and 2009". Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
"Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel: 2005 and 2006". Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
"Top 20 U.S. Gateways for Nonstop International Air Travel: 1990, 1995, and 2000". Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
"Top 20 Routes for U.S. International Airport Pair Passengers: 1990, 1995, and 2000". Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) 2005-2009
FAA National Flight Data Center (NFDC): Airport Data (Form 5010), also available from AirportIQ 5010
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Australian states and territories
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Federated states (6)
Internal federal territories (3)
External federal territories (7)
Location
Commonwealth of Australia
Populations
0 (Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Heard and McDonald Islands) – 7,704,300 (New South Wales)
Areas
10 km2 (3.9 sq mi) (Coral Sea Islands) – 5,896,500 km2 (2,276,700 sq mi) (Australian Antarctic Territory)
Subdivisions
Local government areas
Cadastral divisions
Australia (officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia) is a federation of six states, together with ten federal territories. The Australian mainland consists of five of the six federated states and three of the federal territories (the "internal" territories). The state of Tasmania is an island about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of the mainland. The remaining seven territories are classified for some purposes as "external" territories. Aside from the Australian Antarctic Territory, which is Australia's claim to part of Antarctica, Australia is the world's sixth-largest country by total area.
All states and the two largest internal territories are partially self-governing, as well as being represented in the federal parliament; the other territories are administered by the federal government. Since 2015, federal control has also been extended to the formerly self-governing territory of Norfolk Island.[1] The third internal territory is the Jervis Bay Territory (JBT) which is on the coast of New South Wales south of Sydney and east of Canberra. Three of the external territories are inhabited; the others are uninhabited, apart from temporary-resident scientists.
Contents
1 Geographic Australia
2 States, territories, and external territories
2.1 Proposed states
2.2 Proposed external territories
2.3 Defunct territories
3 Background and overview
3.1 Timeline
4 Comparative terminology
5 Governors and administrators of states and territories
6 Premiers and chief ministers of states and territories
7 State and territorial parliaments
8 State and territory supreme courts
9 State and territory police forces
10 State and territory borders
11 Statistics
12 Distance table
13 State and territory codes
14 See also
15 Notes
16 References
17 External links
Geographic Australia[edit]
The term geographic Australia is used by the Australian government to describe the area covered by demographic statistics such as national population figures. This area comprises Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in addition to the six states and three mainland territories; Norfolk Island is the only territory with a permanent population that is not part of geographic Australia.[2]
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New South Wales NSW AU-NSW NSW State Sydney 7006770430000000000♠7,704,300 800,628
Queensland Qld AU-QLD QLD State Brisbane 7006482700000000000♠4,827,000 1,723,936
South Australia SA AU-SA SA State Adelaide 7006170650000000000♠1,706,500 978,810
Tasmania Tas AU-TAS TAS State Hobart 7005518500000000000♠518,500 64,519
Victoria Vic AU-VIC VIC State Melbourne 7006603910000000000♠6,039,100 227,010
Western Australia WA AU-WA WA State Perth[n 2] 7006261370000000000♠2,613,700 2,526,786
Australian Capital Territory ACT AU-ACT ACT Territory Canberra 7005397397000000000♠397,397 2,280
[n 3] Jervis Bay Territory JBT JBT Territory (Jervis Bay Village) 7002391000000000000♠391 72
Northern Territory NT AU-NT NT Territory Darwin 7005244000000000000♠244,000 1,335,742
[n 3] Ashmore and Cartier Islands External (Offshore anchorage) 5000000000000000000♠0 199
[n 3] Australian Antarctic Territory AAT AQ[n 4] External Davis Station 7003100000000000000♠1,000[n 5] 5,896,500
Christmas Island CX External[n 6] Flying Fish Cove 7003207200000000000♠2,072 135
Cocos (Keeling) Islands CC External[n 6] West Island/Pulu Panjang 7002596000000000000♠596 14
[n 3] Coral Sea Islands External (Willis Island) 7000400000000000000♠4[n 7] 10
[n 3] Heard Island and McDonald Islands HIMI HM External (Atlas Cove) 5000000000000000000♠0 372
Norfolk Island NF External Kingston 7003230200000000000♠2,302 35
All states, (internal) territories and the external territory of Coral Sea Islands were part of Australia at federation and are constitutionally part of the Commonwealth. Northern Territory was part of South Australia, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory were part of New South Wales, and Coral Sea Islands was part of Queensland. Ashmore and Cartier Islands was accepted by Australia in 1934[7] and annexed to Northern Territory prior to the adoption of the Statute of Westminster in 1942 and, as such, is deemed to form part of Australia proper.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands voted for integration in 1984. Together with Christmas Island, Commonwealth laws apply automatically to the territory unless expressly stated otherwise[8] and residents of both external territories are associated with Northern Territory for federal elections. They are, thus, constitutionally part of Australia.
Uninhabited Heard and McDonald Island is treated as constitutionally part of Australia by the central government.[9]
The constitutional status of the Australian Antarctic Territory is unclear, with successive governments treating it either as a separate territory (as in the United Kingdom and Norway) or an integral part of the state (as in New Zealand and France). As of 2018[update], the present government appears to take the view that it is not constitutionally part of Australia.[10]
Norfolk Island's status is controversial, with the present (as of 2018[update]) government taking measures to integrate the territory into Australia proper (including representation in parliament and compulsory voting). The Norfolk Islanders have not formally consented to this change in constitutional status and assert that they are not Australian.[11]
Proposed states[edit]
Northern Australia, currently Northern Territory
Proposed external territories[edit]
Lord Howe Island, currently part of New South Wales
Macquarie Island, currently part of Tasmania
Defunct territories[edit]
Australia has had three now-defunct territories in its history:
From 1926 to 1931, the Northern Territory was divided into Central Australia and North Australia, with the border at the 20th parallel south. Both territories were reincorporated as the Northern Territory at the end of this period.[12]
From 1923 to 1968, the United Nations Trust Territory of Nauru was under Australian administration, until independence as the Republic of Nauru.
From 1949 to 1975, the Territory of Papua and New Guinea was a territory of Australia, remaining so until the independence of the country of Papua New Guinea.
Background and overview[edit]
The states originated as separate British colonies prior to Federation in 1901. The Colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 and originally comprised much of the Australian mainland, as well as Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and Van Diemen's Land, in addition to the area currently referred to as the state of New South Wales. During the 19th century, large areas were successively separated to form the Colony of Tasmania (initially established as a separate colony named Van Diemen's Land in 1825), the Colony of Western Australia (initially established as the smaller Swan River Colony in 1829), the Province of South Australia (1836), the Colony of New Zealand (1840),[13] the Victoria Colony (1851) and the Colony of Queensland (1859). Upon Federation, the six colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania became the founding states of the new Commonwealth of Australia.
Legislative powers of the states are protected by the Australian constitution, section 107, and under the principle of federalism Commonwealth legislation only applies to the states where permitted by the constitution. The territories, by contrast, are from a constitutional perspective directly subject to the Commonwealth Government; laws for territories are determined by the Australian Parliament.[14]
Most of the territories are directly administered by the Commonwealth Government, while two (the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory) have some degree of self-government although less than that of the states. In the self-governing territories, the Australian Parliament retains the full power to legislate, and can override laws made by the territorial institutions, which it has done on rare occasions. For the purposes of Australian (and joint Australia-New Zealand) intergovernmental bodies, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are treated as if they were states.
Each state has a governor, appointed by the Queen, which by convention she does on the advice of the state Premier. The Administrator of the Northern Territory, by contrast, is appointed by the Governor-General. The Australian Capital Territory has neither a Governor nor an Administrator, but the Governor-General exercises some powers that in other jurisdictions are exercised by the Governor of a state or Administrator of a territory, such as the power to dissolve the Legislative Assembly.
Jervis Bay Territory is the only non-self-governing internal territory. Until 1989, it was administered as if it were a part of the ACT, although it has always been a separate territory. Under the terms of the Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915,[15] the laws of the ACT apply to the Jervis Bay Territory insofar as they are applicable and providing they are not inconsistent with an Ordinance.[16] Although residents of the Jervis Bay Territory are generally subject to laws made by the ACT Legislative Assembly, they are not represented in the Assembly. They are represented in the Parliament of Australia as part of the Electoral Division of Fraser in the ACT and by the ACT's two Senators. In other respects, the territory is administered directly by the Federal Government through the Territories portfolio.
The external territory of Norfolk Island possessed a degree of self-government from 1979 until 2015.
Each state has a bicameral parliament except Queensland, which abolished its upper house in 1922. The lower house is called the Legislative Assembly, except in South Australia and Tasmania, where it is called the House of Assembly. Tasmania is the only state to use proportional representation for elections to its lower house; all others elect members from single member constituencies, using preferential voting. The upper house is called the Legislative Council and is generally elected from multi-member constituencies using proportional representation. The three self-governing territories, the ACT, the Northern Territory, and Norfolk Island, each have unicameral Legislative Assemblies.
The head of government of each state is called the premier, appointed by the state's Governor. In normal circumstances, the Governor will appoint as premier whoever leads the party or coalition which exercises control of the lower house (in the case of Queensland, the only house) of the state Parliament. However, in times of constitutional crisis, the Governor can appoint someone else as Premier. The head of government of the self-governing internal territories is called the chief minister. The Northern Territory's chief minister, in normal circumstances whoever controls the Legislative Assembly, is appointed by the administrator.
Timeline[edit]
1788 – British Empire establishes Colony of New South Wales across central and eastern mainland Australia, the island of Tasmania, both islands of New Zealand and Norfolk Island.
1803 – The Coral Sea Islands are claimed by New South Wales
1825 – The island of Tasmania becomes the independent colony of Van Diemen's Land. New South Wales extends its borders further west in mainland Australia.
1829 – British Empire establishes Swan River Colony in western mainland Australia
1832 – Swan River Colony is renamed the colony of Western Australia
1841 – The islands of New Zealand become the independent colony of New Zealand. Much of eastern Antarctica is annexed by Britain as Victoria Land.
1844 – New South Wales transfers Norfolk Island to Van Diemen's Land
1846 – Northern central and eastern Australia briefly become the independent Colony of North Australia, then are returned to New South Wales.
1851 – Southeastern mainland Australia becomes the independent colony of Victoria
1856 – Van Diemen's Land is renamed the colony of Tasmania. Norfolk Island becomes the independent colony of Norfolk Island, however it is to be administered by the same Governor as New South Wales.
1857 – Much of southern central mainland Australia becomes the independent colony of South Australia. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are annexed by Britain.
1859 – Northeastern mainland Australia and Coral Sea Islands become the independent colony of Queensland
1860 – A pocket of New South Wales territory remaining in southern central mainland Australia is transferred to South Australia
1862 – Some of New South Wales' northern central mainland Australian territory is transferred to Queensland
1863 – New South Wales' remaining northern central mainland Australian territory is transferred to South Australia
1878 – Britain annexes Ashmore Island
1883 – Queensland annexes southeastern New Guinea
1884 – Southeastern New Guinea becomes the independent Territory of Papua
1886 – The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are to be administered by the same Governor as the Straits Settlements
1888 – Christmas Island is annexed by Britain and incorporated into the Straits Settlements
1897 – Norfolk Island is officially reintegrated into New South Wales
1901 – New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia, Victoria and South Australia federate into the Commonwealth of Australia. Queensland transfers the Coral Sea Islands to the federal government, creating a federal external territory.
1902 – Britain transfers Papua to Australia as an external territory
1903 – The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are incorporated into the Straits Settlements
1909 – Britain annexes Cartier Island
1910 – Britain claims Heard Island and the McDonald Islands
1911 – The state of South Australia transfers control of northern central mainland Australia to the federal government, creating the Northern Territory. A small pocket of New South Wales around the city of Canberra is transferred to the federal government (who are seated within it), creating the Federal Capital Territory.
1913 – New South Wales transfers Norfolk Island to the federal government, making it a federal external territory
1915 – A small pocket of New South Wales around Jervis Bay is transferred to the federal government and incorporated into the Federal Capital Territory
1920 – Following the defeat of the German Empire in World War I, the League of Nations establishes an Australian mandate in northeastern New Guinea, it becomes the external Territory of New Guinea
1923 – Another conquered German territory, the island of Nauru, is established as an Australian mandate and external territory by the League of Nations, this time as a co-mandate with Britain and New Zealand
1927 – The Northern Territory is split into two territories – North Australia and Central Australia
1930 – Remaining territory in eastern Antarctica is annexed by Britain as Enderby Land
1931 – North Australia and Central Australia are reincorporated as the Northern Territory. Britain recognises Australia as possessors of the uninhabited Ashmore and Cartier Islands, making them an external federal territory.
1933 – Britain transfers Victoria Land and Enderby Land to Australia, creating the Australian Antarctic Territory, with ongoing limited international recognition
1938 – The Federal Capital Territory is renamed the Australian Capital Territory
1942 – The Japanese Empire conquers Nauru from Australia, Britain and New Zealand as part of World War II. Japan also conquers much of the Straits Settlements, including Christmas Island. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are not conquered and are transferred to the Colony of Ceylong.
1946 – The United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations, renews its mandate of New Guinea to Australia
1947 – Following the defeat of Japan in World War II, the United Nations returns Nauru to Australia, Britain and New Zealand as a joint mandate. Christmas Island returns to Britain and is incorporated into the Colony of Singapore. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are also transferred to Singapore.
1949 – Papua and New Guinea are incorporated into the singular Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Britain transfers Heard Island and the McDonald Islands to Australia, creating a federal external territory.
1955 – Britain transfers the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to Australia, they become an external territory
1958 – Britain transfers Christmas Island to Australia, it becomes an external territory
1966 – The Republic of Nauru is established, ending Australian/British/New Zealander control of the island
1975 – Papua and New Guinea becomes the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, ending British/Australian control
1989 – Jervis Bay becomes independent of the ACT, becoming the Jervis Bay Territory
Comparative terminology[edit]
Entity
Type of entity
Tie to the Queen
Domestic administrator
Head of Government
Upper House of Parliament
Lower House of Parliament
Member of Parliament
Upper house
Lower house[note 1]
Commonwealth of Australia Federal government Direct Governor-General Prime Minister Senate House of Representatives Senator MP
South Australia Federated state Direct (established by the Australia Act 1986) Governor Premier Legislative Council House of Assembly MLC MHA
Tasmania
New South Wales Legislative Assembly MP
Victoria MLA
Western Australia
Queensland N/A (abolished 1922) N/A MP
Australian Capital Territory Self-governing territory Indirect (through Governor-General acting as "administrator") Assembly and Chief minister Chief minister N/A MLA
Northern Territory Indirect (through Governor-General) Administrator
Christmas Island External territory Mayor/shire president Shire Council Councillor
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Norfolk Island Regional Council[note 2]
Note:
Jump up ^ The abbreviation MP is an acceptable, and indeed more common, term for members of each lower house.
Jump up ^ Between 1979 and 2015 Norfolk Island was a self-governing external territory with its own legislature, the Norfolk Legislative Assembly, until this was abolished by the Commonwealth Parliament.
Governors and administrators of states and territories[edit]
Main article: Governors of the Australian states
Post
Incumbent
Appointed
Governor of New South Wales His Excellency David Hurley 2 October 2014
Governor of Queensland His Excellency Paul de Jersey 29 July 2014
Governor of South Australia His Excellency Hieu Van Le 1 September 2014
Governor of Tasmania Her Excellency Kate Warner 10 December 2014
Governor of Victoria Her Excellency Linda Dessau 1 July 2015
Governor of Western Australia His Excellency Kim Beazley 1 May 2018
Administrator of the Northern Territory Her Honour Vicki O'Halloran 31 October 2017
Administrator of Norfolk Island His Honour Eric Hutchinson 1 April 2017
Administrator of Australian Indian Ocean Territories
(Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands) Her Honour Natasha Griggs 5 October 2017
Premiers and chief ministers of states and territories[edit]
Main article: Premiers of the Australian states
Post
Incumbent
Political party
Appointed
Premier of New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian MP Liberal 23 January 2017
Premier of Queensland Annastacia Palaszczuk MP Labor 14 February 2015
Premier of South Australia Steven Marshall MHA Liberal 19 March 2018
Premier of Tasmania Will Hodgman MP Liberal 31 March 2014
Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews MP Labor 4 December 2014
Premier of Western Australia Mark McGowan MLA Labor 17 March 2017
Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory Andrew Barr MLA Labor 11 December 2014
Chief Minister of the Northern Territory Michael Gunner MLA Labor 31 August 2016
Mayor of Norfolk Island Council Councillor Robin Adams 6 July 2016
Presidents of Australian Indian Ocean Territories:
President of the Shire of Christmas Island
President of the Shire of Cocos Council

Councillor Foo Kee Heng
Councillor Balmut Pirus

18 October 2011
May 2013
State and territorial parliaments[edit]
Main article: Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
Parliament of New South Wales
Parliament of Queensland
Parliament of South Australia
Parliament of Tasmania
Parliament of Victoria
Parliament of Western Australia
Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
State and territory supreme courts[edit]
Main article: Australian court hierarchy
Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
Supreme Court of New South Wales
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
Supreme Court of Queensland
Supreme Court of South Australia
Supreme Court of Tasmania
Supreme Court of Victoria
Supreme Court of Western Australia
Supreme Court of Norfolk Island
State and territory police forces[edit]
Main article: Law enforcement in Australia
Australian Capital Territory Police (performed by Australian Federal Police)
New South Wales Police
Northern Territory Police
Queensland Police
South Australia Police
Tasmania Police
Victoria Police
Western Australia Police
State and territory borders[edit]
Main article: Territorial evolution of Australia
Australian Capital Territory border
New South Wales borders
Northern Territory borders
Queensland borders
South Australian borders
Tasmanian borders
Victorian borders
Western Australia border
Statistics[edit]
State / territory
Abbreviation
Land area[6][17]
Population
(2016 census)
Population density
% of population
in capital
Notes
km2
sq mi
Rank
Number
Rank
/km2
/sq mi
Rank
%
Rank
Australian Capital Territory ACT 2,280 880 7000800000000000000♠8 7005395200000000000♠395,200 7000700000000000000♠7 167.6 434 7000100000000000000♠1 99.6% 7000100000000000000♠1 [18]
New South Wales NSW 800,628 309,124 7000500000000000000♠5 7006770430000000000♠7,704,300 7000100000000000000♠1 9.62 24.9 7000300000000000000♠3 63.0% 7000500000000000000♠5 [19]
Northern Territory NT 1,335,742 515,733 7000300000000000000♠3 7005244000000000000♠244,000 7000800000000000000♠8 0.18 0.47 7000800000000000000♠8 54.0% 7000600000000000000♠6 [20]
Queensland QLD 1,723,936 665,615 7000200000000000000♠2 7006482700000000000♠4,827,000 7000300000000000000♠3 2.79 7.2 7000500000000000000♠5 46.0% 7000700000000000000♠7 [21]
South Australia SA 978,810 377,920 7000400000000000000♠4 7006170650000000000♠1,706,500 7000500000000000000♠5 1.74 4.5 7000600000000000000♠6 73.5% 7000200000000000000♠2 [22]
Tasmania TAS 64,519 24,911 7000700000000000000♠7 7005518500000000000♠518,500 7000600000000000000♠6 7.58 19.6 7000400000000000000♠4 41.0% 7000800000000000000♠8 [23]
Victoria VIC 227,010 87,650 7000600000000000000♠6 7006603910000000000♠6,039,100 7000200000000000000♠2 26.56 68.8 7000200000000000000♠2 71.0% 7000400000000000000♠4 [24]
Western Australia WA 2,526,786 975,598 7000100000000000000♠1 7006261370000000000♠2,613,700 7000400000000000000♠4 1.03 2.7 7000700000000000000♠7 73.4% 7000300000000000000♠3 [25]
Distance table[edit]
Australian distance table
Adelaide
2673 Albany
1533 3588 Alice Springs
1578 3633 443 Uluru
2045 4349 3038 3254 Brisbane
2483 1943 2483 1223 3317 Broome
3352 5656 2457 2900 1716 2496 Cairns
1196 3846 3706 2751 1261 3275 2568 Canberra
3022 4614 1489 1932 3463 1803 2882 4195 Darwin
1001 3674 2534 2579 1944 3636 3251 918 4023 Hobart
3219 3787 1686 2129 3660 1045 3079 4392 827 4220 Kununurra
2783 5087 2505 2948 976 2840 740 1999 2930 2682 3127 Mackay
731 3404 2264 2309 1674 3124 2981 648 3753 609 3950 2412 Melbourne
2742 5106 1209 1652 1829 1834 1248 2561 1634 3075 1831 1296 2805 Mount Isa
2781 409 3696 3741 4457 2389 5764 3954 4205 3782 3378 5195 3512 4905 Perth
1412 3970 3830 2875 1001 3373 2495 286 4034 1142 4516 1926 872 2400 4078 Sydney
Distance in kilometres from the corresponding city on the X-Y axis.
State and territory codes[edit]
State/territory
Abbrev.
Call signs
Postal
Telephone numbers in Australia
Time zone
AM/FM
TV
Amateur
Abbrev.
Postcode
Std
Summer
Australian Capital Territory ACT 1xx(x)[nb 1] xx(x)Cn[nb 1] VK1xx[nb 1] ACT 02nn,[nb 2] 26nn, 29nn +61 2 62xx xxxx
+61 2 61xx xxxx +10 +11
New South Wales NSW 2xx(x) xx(x)Nn VK2xx NSW 1nnn,[nb 2] 2nnn +61 2 xxxx xxxx[nb 3] +10 (+9 1⁄2) +11
Victoria Vic 3xx(x) xx(x)Vn VK3xx VIC 3nnn, 8nnn[nb 2] +61 3 xxxx xxxx[nb 3] +10 +11
Queensland Qld 4xx(x) xx(x)Qn VK4xx QLD 4nnn, 9nnn[nb 2] +61 7 xxxx xxxx +10
South Australia SA 5xx(x) xx(x)Sn VK5xx SA 5nnn +61 8 8xxx xxxx
+61 8 7xxx xxxx +9 1⁄2 +10 1⁄2
Western Australia WA 6xx(x) xx(x)Wn VK6xx WA 6nnn +61 8 9xxx xxxx
+61 8 6xxx xxxx +8
Tasmania Tas 7xx(x) xx(x)Tn VK7xx TAS 7nnn +61 3 6xxx xxxx +10 +11
Northern Territory NT 8xx(x) xx(x)Dn VK8xx NT 08nn +61 8 89xx xxxx +9 1⁄2
External territories
Norfolk Island 2xx(x) xx(x)Nn VK2xx NSW 2899 +672 3 xx xxx +11
Christmas Island 6xx(x) xx(x)Wn VK9xx WA 6798 +61 8 9164 xxxx +7
Cocos Island 6xx(x) xx(x)Wn VK9xx WA 6799 +61 8 9162 xxxx +6 1⁄2
Australian Antarctic Territory AAT none VK0xx TAS +672 1 +6 to +8
Macquarie Island none +10 +11
^ Jump up to: a b c A number of broadcast stations in the ACT have call signs allocated as if ACT were part of New South Wales.
^ Jump up to: a b c d This is used for some PO box and large users only.
^ Jump up to: a b Some exceptions apply to numbers in this state's number range.
See also[edit]
Australia portal
ISO 3166-2:AU, the ISO codes for the states and territories of Australia.
Australian regional rivalries
List of Australian demonyms
List of proposed states of Australia
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Unless provided, references and details on data provided in the table can be found within the individual state and territory articles.
Jump up ^ Perth was defined as the capital by statute in 2016: City of Perth Act 2016 (WA) in AustLII.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e The national Flag of Australia is used in territories which have no flag of their own.
Jump up ^ Under the definitions in ISO 3166-1, the AAT is covered by the Antarctican ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code "AQ".
Jump up ^ No permanent population, research station with fluctuating staff numbers.
^ Jump up to: a b Part of geographic Australia
Jump up ^ No permanent population, weather monitoring station generally with four staff.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Strom, Marcus (1 June 2016). "Norfolk Island elects council that supports self-determination". The Sydney Morning Herald.
Jump up ^ Pink, Brian (2010). "Definition of Australia". Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) (Report). Australian Bureau of Statistics. p. 5.
Jump up ^ ISO 3166-2:AU (ISO 3166-2 codes for the states and territories of Australia)
Jump up ^ "3101.0 – Australian Demographic Statistics, Mar 2016". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
Jump up ^ http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/dimensions/area-of-australia-states-and-territories
^ Jump up to: a b "Area of Australia – States and Territories". Geoscience Australia: National Location Information. Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
Jump up ^ https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2008C00341
Jump up ^ https://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/alrc-80-legal-risk-international-transactions/10-external-territories
Jump up ^ http://heardisland.antarctica.gov.au/about/frequently-asked-questions
Jump up ^ http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/australia-in-antarctica/australian-antarctic-territory
Jump up ^ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/21/were-not-australian-norfolk-islanders-adjust-to-shock-of-takeover-by-mainland
Jump up ^ Ling, Ted. "Dividing the Territory, 1926–31". Commonwealth Government Records about the Northern Territory. National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
Jump up ^ A.H. McLintock (ed), An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, 3 vols, Wellington, NZ:R.E. Owen, Government Printer, 1966, vol 3 p. 526.'
Jump up ^ Constitution of Australia, section 122
Jump up ^ Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915 (Cth).
Jump up ^ "Jervis Bay Territory Governance and Administration". The Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport. Retrieved 17 January 2013. Although the Jervis Bay Territory is not part of the Australian Capital Territory, the laws of the ACT apply, insofar as they are applicable and, providing they are not inconsistent with an Ordinance, in the Territory by virtue of the 'Jervis Bay Acceptance Act 1915'
Jump up ^ http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/dimensions/area-of-australia-states-and-territories
Jump up ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Australian Capital Territory". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "New South Wales". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Northern Territory". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Queensland". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "South Australia". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Tasmania". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Victoria". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
Jump up ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Western Australia". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
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