Regions of New South Wales

These CCD's aggregate to form the Statistical Local Area (SLA), which is the common base unit for each of the larger regional structures.

[4] The thirteen divisions for New South Wales are: The Statistical Region (SR) structure was established in 1986 as a means for labor force analysis.

[6] The Statistical District (SDist) is a non-capital, urban region of one or more adjoining areas, with a population of 25,000 or more.

Each region is a land area made up of a group of interacting ecosystems that are repeated in similar form across the landscape.

The original basis for descriptive regional names in New South Wales is based on the geography of the State.

This two-way subdivision gives rise to the generic pattern of regions, and in some cases, subregions: The Australian Bureau of Meteorology divides New South Wales into sixteen districts.

There are thirteen networks of regional organisation, in addition to the six networks in Greater Metropolitan Sydney:[15] The NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment divides New South Wales into ten regions: [16] The New South Wales Ministry of Health divided New South Wales into fifteen separate regions, called Local Health Districts.

The New South Wales Police Force is organised into approximately 81 local area commands, which are aggregated into six regions: The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service uses the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia bioregions based on ecological factors.

The "Blue Mountains" is also included as it own distinct region, which is usually considered a district of the state capital "Sydney".

IBRA 6.1 regions map
Despite being geographically in the Hunter Region , Port Stephens Council includes itself in the Mid North Coast for commercial purposes. This sign, welcoming travellers to the Mid North Coast, is only 900 m (2,953 ft) from the Hunter River on the Pacific Highway at Tomago .