page_title: Northern Territory
section_title: Ancestry and immigration
hierarchical_section_title: Northern Territory / Demographics / Ancestry and immigration
caption_attribution_description: Arnhem Land artist Glen Namundja working on an artwork.
context_page_description: The Northern Territory is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. It shares borders with Western Australia to the west, South Australia to the south, and Queensland to the east. To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
  The NT covers 1,349,129 square kilometres, making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 244,761, fewer than half as many people as Tasmania.
  The archaeological history of the Northern Territory may have begun over 60,000 years ago when humans first settled this region of the Sahul Continent. Reportedly the Makassan traders began a relationship with the indigenous people of the Northern Territory around the trading of trepang from at least the 18th century. The coast of the territory was first seen by Europeans in the 17th century. The British were the first Europeans to attempt to settle the coastal regions.
context_section_description: At the 2016 census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were: 
  Australian (32.8%)
  English (27.6%)
  Indigenous (25.5%)
  Irish (9.3%)
  Scottish (7.5%)
  German (4.4%)
  Filipino (3.5%)
  Chinese (3.1%)
  Indian (2.3%)
  Italian (2.1%)
  Greek (2%)
  Dutch (1.3%)
  31.2% of the population was born overseas at the 2016 census. The five largest groups of overseas-born were from the Philippines (2.6%), England (2.4%), New Zealand (2%), India (1.6%) and Greece (0.6%).
  25.5% of the population, or 58,248 people, identified as Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders) in 2016.
caption: An Australian Aboriginal artist at work
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