Western Australia is Australia's largest state in area, covering the western third
of the mainland, and is bordered by South Australia and the Northern Territory.
It is, after the Sakha Republic in Russia, the second largest subnational entity (statoid) in the world.
The people of Western Australia, West Australians or Western Australians, are often colloquially
referred to as sandgropers because of the insect found on sand dunes around Perth.
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