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The Mallee is an illdefined district, sometimes incorrectly referred to as an economic region, of the Australian state of Victoria. The district is located entirely within the Loddon Mallee region; and covers the most northwesterly district in the state bounded by the South Australian and New South Wales borders, inclusive of the Murray River. Definitions of the district vary, however all are based on the Victorian distribution of mallee eucalypts. These trees dominate the surviving vegetation through most of Mallee, except for swamps and areas along waterways, and the very rare stands of intact ''Casuarina''. At the 2011 census, the four local government areas (LGAs) that are thought to comprise the illdefined district had a combined population of . The area of these same four LGAs is . ==Definitions== In the context of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, the Mallee is spreads over parts of both the Murray Darling Depression and Riverina bioregions. Some definitions of the Mallee extend the district into South Australia, which is called Murray Mallee. The Mallee is one of the nine districts in Victoria used for weather forecasting by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries defines the district as a region for agricultural production purposes encompassing the Buloke, Gannawarra, Mildura City and Swan Hill City local government areas.〔 Another common definition is that the Mallee is the part of Victoria dependent on Mildura and Swan Hill. The Victorian Government has historically had many departmental regions combining the Mallee with the greater Bendigo area, the current one being named the "Loddon Mallee" region. This region includes the Loddon River catchment and adjacent areas as well as the Mallee.〔 This region is used by all state government departments, and often there is a central body for the region located in Bendigo. In 2005, there were attempts to push for a separate region in north-west Victoria in the belief that this would deliver more services to the district. For tourism purposes, the term ''Wimmera Mallee'' is used to describe the Wimmera district and very small parts of the Mallee that are distant from the Murray River. A separate tourism district known as ''Mildura Swan Hill'' covers the rural cities of Mildura and Swan Hill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mallee (Victoria)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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