Regions of Tasmania

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has multiple regional structures for which it analyses and reports data.

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 five divisions for Tasmania are:[5] The Statistical Region (SR) structure was established in 1986 as a means for labor force analysis.

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

In some schemes a quadrant of the coast is made into four parts:[citation needed] In general terms, the usage is found in a number of forms:[citation needed] These regional schemes do not relate to the physical realities of the coast, or any of the coastal processes, but are simply organisational categorigisation.

Regions most commonly used for tourism purposes include: As of 2015[update] Tourism Tasmania, a Tasmanian Government body, divided the state into five regions on the Tasmanian mainland, and two regions covering the two major Bass Strait islands:[10] Zones have also been historically used for the purposes of public transport[11] including: Hobart and surrounds, Launceston, Tamar and the North, North West Coast, East Coast, and Western Wilderness.