What are the main cities in Australia? There are a total of 86 cities in Australia, with eight cities given the title of capital cities. The most populated cities are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Darwin.
Australia has 5 cities with more than a million people, 14 cities with between 100,000 and 1 million people, and 581 cities with between 10,000 and 100,000 people.
Significant Urban Areas may contain more than one distinct Urban Centre. 70% of the Australian population live in the top eight most populous cities (images below).
Mainland Australia is the world's largest island but the smallest continent. The country is divided into six states and two territories.
Australia's major cities/towns by population are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast-Tweed Heads, Canberra-Queanbeyan, Newcastle, Central Coast, Wollongong, Sunshine Coast, Geelong, Townsville, Hobart, Cairns, Toowoomba, Darwin, and Alice Springs.
Small Towns in Australia
The smallest town in Australia is the quirky Cooladdi (Aboriginal meaning “Black Duck”), which is placed between Quilpie and Charleville in southwest Queensland. Coolidge is actually a ghost town and, even though it once had a population of 270, now it's home to only four people.
With 126,900 millionaires, Sydney made it to number 10 with the report noting especially strong growth in wealth in the Harbour City over the past 20 years, making it Australia's wealthiest city.
It was gazetted on 4 November 2010 by the Government of South Australia as "Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya" without the word "hill". The name is the longest official place name in Australia.
Sydney regains the top spot as Australia's largest city for 2021, but Melbourne is close on its heels.
Moreton Bay Region will soon undergo a classification change to become known as Moreton Bay City.
There are also a number of terms for Australia, such as: Aussie, Oz, Lucky Country, and land of the long weekend.
1. Tokyo, Japan - 37.4 million people.
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Set in the heart of Australia's flattest terrain in the Hay Plains, some of the country's most remarkable pieces of history come together just a few kilometres apart. Hay is about 125km north of Deniliquin, the biggest town in the Edward River region, and makes an ideal day trip from 'Deni', as the locals call it.
Hobart is Australia's oldest capital city according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Sydney is the oldest and largest Australian city.
The latest government figures, from June 2021, put Melbourne's population at 4,875,400 - 18,700 more than Sydney. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines a city's "significant urban area", by including all connecting suburbs with more than 10,000 people.
Main teaching
Sydney is the most populated and largest Australian city, followed by Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. Canberra is the eighth most populated and Darwin is the fifteenth most populated.
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, WALES. This village on the Ynys Môn island off the north-west coast of Wales has 58 letters. It is the place with the second-longest name in the world. The original name of the village was Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll.
—America was convinced that turning its towns into numbers wasn't such a crisis. Just seven years later, a tiny Australian town decided to go one better, and actually chose a number for its name. To navigate, press the arrow keys. In 1770, 1770 was "Round Hill," the birthplace of Queensland.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll (Welsh: [ɬan. ˌvair. puɬˈɡwɨ̞n. ɡɨ̞ɬ]), is a large village and local government community on the island of Anglesey, Wales, on the Menai Strait next to the Britannia Bridge and across the strait from Bangor.
Mungallala Methodist Church was built in 1964. It has now closed. In 2016, the Australian Taxation Office listed Mungallala as having the lowest mean taxable income by postcode, making it the poorest town in Australia, which led the ABC to do a documentary on the town for their online "storyhunters" program.
No suburb in the country features a greater concentration of members of The List – Australia's Richest 250 than Toorak, where Melbourne's wealthiest families have gathered for decades. Think historic looking mansions guarded by large hedges set back from the street to ensure privacy.