The smallest town in Australia is the quirky
Cooladdi is a rural locality in the Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia. The town is 88.9 kilometres (55.2 mi) south-west of Charleville. Claims have been made that Cooladdi is Australia's smallest town by population.
The least populated city in Australia is Darwin, with a population of 148,564 and a density of 703 people/sq km.
With an approximate population of 4.5 million inhabitants, Sydney is the largest and the oldest city in Australia. The first settlers arrived in 1788. Situated on Sydney Harbour and next to Circular Quay, The Rocks is the starting point of European settlement in Australia.
About Hum. Hum has less than 20 inhabitants but is considered the smallest town in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
Only Monowi, though, has a claim to fame, one conveniently suggested by its pronunciation: MONO-eye. That is to say: Just one person lives in Monowi, the only incorporated, government-run town in the U.S. to have such a population. That person — that single, solitary soul — is 87-year-old Elsie Eiler.
Vatican City is the smallest city in the world, but it's bursting with activity for locals and tourists alike.
Indigenous people have lived in Australia more than 65,000 years ago, according to scientific evidence of human occupation1. To put this in perspective, this is ten times older than the ancient Egyptian pyramids.
Darwin's median age is 34-and-a-half, the youngest in Australia. The number of people under 35 is booming in Darwin, the latest population figures reveal.
Pillinger, Tasmania
Pillinger is an abandoned town on Macquarie Harbour, on Tasmania's west coast. It was constructed in 1897 by Irish prospector James Crotty, who founded North Mount Lyell Company, and it quickly became a thriving port.
More than two-third part of the country only receives less than 500 mm annual rain. This arid, uninhabitable part of Australia lies in the middle of the continent (the Outback), away from the coasts. And this is also the reason why more than 80% of the country's population lives within 50 kilometres from the coast.
More than 80 per cent of Australians live within the coastal zone.
Australia's coastline stretches almost 50,000 kilometres and is linked by over 10,000 beaches, more than any other country in the world. More than 85 per cent of Australians live within 50 kilometres of the coast, making it an integral part of our laid-back lifestyle.
Today, according to the US Census, Monowi is the only incorporated place in the US with just one resident, and Eiler is the mayor, clerk, treasurer, librarian, bartender and only person left in the US' tiniest town.
With just three streets in the entire suburb, that honour goes to Englorie Park. Its 400 or so residents are packed into 11ha, or 0.1 square kilometres, making it positively miniscule, even for a micro suburb.
Hunters Hill is recognised as Australia's oldest garden suburb, of which Figtree Park in particular is an important historic component.
New South Wales (NSW) is Australia's oldest state and contains the most populated city in Australia, Sydney.
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.
Some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, a band of intrepid Southeast Asians became the first humans to reach Australia, and without a single glance at a GPS unit.
A new genomic study has revealed that Aboriginal Australians are the oldest known civilization on Earth, with ancestries stretching back roughly 75,000 years.
The Australian continent, being a part of the Indo-Australian Plate (more specifically, the Australian Plate), is the lowest, flattest, and oldest landmass on Earth and it has had a relatively stable geological history.
Located in Rome, Vatican City is 0.17 square miles in size and has a population of only 800.
1. Tokyo, Japan - 37.4 million people.