Editing Perth (section)

=== Metropolitan area ===
{{main|Perth metropolitan region}}
[[Image:MASB.gif|thumb|180px|Area of the Perth Metropolitan Region Scheme|left]]
Perth's metropolitan area extends along the coast to [[Two Rocks, Western Australia|Two Rocks]] in the north and [[Singleton, Western Australia|Singleton]] to the south,<ref name="landgate map">{{cite map |publisher=Western Australian Land Information Authority |title=Perth Metropolitan Region: Local Governments and Localities |year=2012 |url=http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/docvault.nsf/web/PS_FREEMAP/$FILE/Arterial_Roads_LGA_&_Localities.pdf |cartography=Location Knowledge Services, Landgate |format=PDF |access-date=25 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322113858/http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/docvault.nsf/web/PS_FREEMAP/%24FILE/Arterial_Roads_LGA_%26_Localities.pdf |archive-date=22 March 2012 }}</ref> a distance of approximately {{Convert|125|km|-1}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.abc.net.au/perth/about/|work=720 ABC Perth|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=18 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029113036/http://www.abc.net.au/perth/about/|archive-date=29 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> From the coast in the west to [[Mundaring, Western Australia|Mundaring]] in the east is a distance of approximately {{Convert|50|km|-1}}. The Perth metropolitan area covers {{convert|6418|km2}}.<ref name=ABSGCCSAXLS/> The built-up urban area of Perth is {{convert|1722|km2}}, the same as [[Wuhan]] or [[Salt Lake City]] and slightly smaller than [[London]], making Perth the 67th-largest urban area in the world. Perth is also the 50th-least densely populated out of the 990 urban areas in the world with a population above 500,000.<ref>{{cite web |title=Demographia World Urban Areas |url=http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf |website=Demographia |edition=18th |access-date=17 February 2023 |pages=40, 74 |date=July 2022 |archive-date=3 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503021711/http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

The metropolitan region is defined by the ''Planning and Development Act 2005'' to include 30 [[Local government areas of Western Australia|local government areas]], with the outer extent being the [[City of Wanneroo]] and the [[City of Swan]] to the north, the [[Shire of Mundaring]], [[City of Kalamunda]] and the [[City of Armadale]] to the east, the [[Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale]] to the south-east and the [[City of Rockingham]] to the south-west, and including [[Rottnest Island]] and [[Garden Island (Western Australia)|Garden Island]] off the west coast.<ref name="MLGRP2011">{{Cite report|author=Metropolitan Local Government Review Panel|date=September 2011|title=Defining What we mean by "Perth Metropolitan Area"|url=http://metroreview.dlg.wa.gov.au/Content/Publications/Default.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222001125/http://metroreview.dlg.wa.gov.au/Content/Publications/Default.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 February 2012|access-date=9 April 2016}}</ref> This extent correlates with the [[Metropolitan Region Scheme]], and the [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]]' Perth (Major Statistical Division).<ref name="MLGRP2011"/>

The metropolitan extent of Perth can be defined in other ways—the Australian Bureau of Statistics Greater Capital City Statistical Area, or [[Greater Perth]] in short, consists of that area, plus the [[City of Mandurah]] and the Pinjarra Level 2 Statistical Area<ref>{{cite web |title=2011 Census QuickStats: Pinjarra |url=http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/502011029?opendocument&navpos=22 |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=12 February 2020 |date=28 March 2013 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728084509/https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/502011029?opendocument=&navpos=22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> of the [[Shire of Murray]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Greater Capital City Statistical Areas|url=http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/4a256353001af3ed4b2562bb00121564/6b6e07234c98365aca25792d0010d730/$FILE/Greater%20Capital%20City%20Statistical%20Area%20-%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|website=Australian Bureau Statistics|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|access-date=2 November 2014|date=2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030212708/http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/4a256353001af3ed4b2562bb00121564/6b6e07234c98365aca25792d0010d730/$FILE/Greater%20Capital%20City%20Statistical%20Area%20-%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|archive-date=30 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Census 2011 AUS|id=5GPER|name=Greater Perth (Greater Capital City Statistical Area) |access-date=2 November 2014|quick=on}}</ref> while the ''Regional Development Commissions Act 1993'' includes the [[Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale]] in the [[Peel (Western Australia)|Peel region]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Metropolitan Local Government Review, Final Report of the Independent Panel|url=http://www.kalamunda.wa.gov.au/files/0874c84a-6872-4b69-ab3e-a24d011bcb62/FINAL-REPORT-JULY-2012-Metropolitan-Local-Government-Review-Panel-Final-Report.pdf|website=City of Kalamunda|page=56|date=July 2012|access-date=12 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403072421/http://www.kalamunda.wa.gov.au/files/0874c84a-6872-4b69-ab3e-a24d011bcb62/FINAL-REPORT-JULY-2012-Metropolitan-Local-Government-Review-Panel-Final-Report.pdf|archive-date=3 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>