[8][1] As of 2020, it has an area of 33,393 square kilometres (12,893 sq mi).

[4] The Barkly Highway passes from west to east along the southern side of the locality forming part of its southern boundary at its eastern end.

[8] Tablelands includes the homestead known as the Banka Banka Mud Hut which was listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register on 30 August 2006.

[12] The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Tablelands had 210 people living within its boundaries.

[2] Tablelands is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Barkly and the local government area of the Barkly Region.