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Sydney regains the top spot as Australia's largest city for 2021, but Melbourne is close on its heels.
Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya. Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya Hill is officially the longest place name in Australia. Located in the Indigenous Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands in the north of the state of South Australia, the name is derived from 'where the devil urinates' in regional Pitjantjatjara language.
Elsewhere in Victoria, you will find Titwobble Lane, Teddy Bears Gap, Ding-A-Ding and Sausage Gully. The township of Bong Bong, in the Southern Highlands, doesn't exist any longer, but the name lives on in the parish and a racecourse and several streets in nearby towns.
Toorak has long been one of Melbourne's most affluent suburbs, with wealthy entrepreneurs and athletes calling it home. According to Real Estate, some of its residents include the co-owner of Chadstone – the Fashion Capital and former Essendon Football Club chairman (and owner of Port Phillip Ferries) Paul Little.
There are also a number of terms for Australia, such as: Aussie, Oz, Lucky Country, and land of the long weekend.
It was gazetted on 4 November 2010 by the Government of South Australia as "Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya" without the word "hill".
Interestingly, the nickname “Oz” is not only used to refer to Australia but also to the Australian people themselves. Australians often refer to each other as “Ozzies” or “Aussies,” and the nickname has become a term of endearment for the country as a whole.
A city in Australia little known because of its island location, Hobart is the second oldest city in Australia after Sydney. It is also the capital of the island of Tasmania, located south of Melbourne a few hours by ferry.
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.
The tiny town of Round Hill decided to get in on the action, changing its name to 1770 in honor of the fateful year.
a village in NW Wales, in SE Anglesey: reputed to be the longest place name in Great Britain when unabbreviated; means: St Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of Llandysilio of the red caveFull name: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Welsh ...
Carcoar, which sits off the Mid Western Highway between Bathurst and Cowra, bills itself as "the town that time forgot". Once a rival to Canberra as the nation's capital, it used to be the chief administrative and commercial centre of the Lachlan river.
New South Wales (NSW) is Australia's oldest state and contains the most populated city in Australia, Sydney.
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.
After Dutch navigators charted the northern, western and southern coasts of Australia during the 17th Century this newly found continent became known as 'New Holland'. It was the English explorer Matthew Flinders who suggested the name we use today.
The spelling Oz is likely to have been influenced by the 1939 film, though the pronunciation was probably always with a /z/, as it is also for Aussie, sometimes spelt Ozzie. The Baz Luhrmann film Australia (2008) makes repeated reference to The Wizard of Oz, which appeared just before the wartime action of Australia.
Australian English can be described as a new dialect that developed as a result of contact between people who spoke different, mutually intelligible, varieties of English. The very early form of Australian English would have been first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the early colony in Sydney.
Other frankly vulgar entries include Wetwang, Lousybush, Lower Swell and Shitterton. Not good places to take your gran, really. Amy Pritchett, who compiled the list, said: 'The English language never fails to amaze us, and neither do the delightful and funny names of these UK locations.
World's rudest place names: Rooty Hill, Yorkeys Knob, Fakfak, Lake Titicaca | escape.com.au.