Editing Perth (section)

=== Isolation ===
With more than two million residents, Perth is one of the [[Extremes on Earth#Other places considered the most remote|most isolated major cities]] in the world. The nearest city with a population of more than 100,000 is [[Adelaide]], over {{cvt|2100|km|0}} away.<ref name=gill>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/19/where-worlds-most-remote-city |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=13 September 2019 |title=Where is the world's most remote city? |first=Nicholas |last=Gill |date=19 August 2019 |archive-date=23 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221123102227/https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/19/where-worlds-most-remote-city |url-status=live }}</ref> Perth is geographically closer to both [[East Timor]] ({{cvt|2800|km|disp=or}}), and [[Jakarta]], Indonesia ({{cvt|3000|km|disp=or}}), than to [[Sydney]] ({{cvt|3300|km|disp=or}}).<ref name=gill/>