Sunday, April 27, 2008

The city of Perth


Perth is the capital of Western Australia. It is located in the South-West corner of Australia.
It is one of the sunniest cities in the world.

It has 4 universities in the city which have a large population of students. It has several museums and art galleries which makes it the cultural centre of Western Australia.

It has many kilometres of cycle track. On weekends: many people prefer to cycle around the city. Most of the city is flat.

The population of Perth is 1,340,000. The people are very friendly, relaxed, love the outdoors, like the sun and water.

Perth has warm to hot weather in summer with (average temperature 29 c daytime, 17 c night)
It is cool and wet in winter (average temperature 18c daytime, 9c night). It has an average 8 hours sunshine perday. It has many clean, beautiful beaches. People enjoy excellent swimming, surfing, boating, fishing.

The main industries of Perth are like tourism, grape growing( and wine making), mining( opals, gold, diamonds). There are good places for travel.

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