The Noongar are a constellation of peoples of Indigenous Australian descent who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.

Traditionally, they inhabit the region from Jurien Bay to the southern coast of Western Australia, and east to what is now Ravensthorpe and Southern Cross, south west of the circumcision line separating those Aboriginal groups of central Australia that practiced male circumcision upon initiation from those who did not.

Noongar country is now understood as referring to the land occupied by fourteen different groups: Amangu, Ballardong, Yued, Kaneang, Koreng, Mineng, Njakinjaki, Njunga, Pibelmen, Pindjarup, Wardandi, Whadjuk, Wiilman and Wudjari.

The members of the collective Noongar cultural block descend from peoples who spoke several languages and dialects that were often mutually intelligible.

What is now classed as the Noongar language is a member of the large Pama-Nyungan language family.

Contemporary Noongar speak Australian Aboriginal English (a dialect of the English language) laced with Noongar words and occasionally in

flected by its grammar. Most contemporary Noongar trace their ancestry to more than one of these groups. The 2001 census figures showed that 21,000 people identified themselves as indigenous in the south-west of Western Australia.