Cooladdi is a rural locality in the Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia. The town is 88.9 kilometres south-west of Charleville. Claims have been made that Cooladdi is Australia's smallest town by population. In 2015, the population was 3, all of whom lived at the general store.
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.
In Australia, most rural and regional centres of population can be called towns; many small towns have populations of less than 200. The smallest may be described as townships.
Yerranderie is a ghost town that once prospered as a silver and lead mining operation. In the years immediately prior to World War I it had a population of over 2,000 and between 1900 and 1912 the mines in the area yielded 5,381,000 ounces of silver, 9,951 ounces of gold and over 12,000 tons of lead.
About Hum. Hum has less than 20 inhabitants but is considered the smallest town in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. They care about tradition, so the old ritual called 'Election of the prefect for a year' is still held every year on the 11th of June (The day of Hum).
A coastal town located on the east bank of the mouth of the Tamar River, George Town is Australia's third oldest European settlement and Australia's oldest town.
“As has traditionally been the case, remote towns with large indigenous populations in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland dominate the rankings of household size. Burketown, Bathurst Island, Telfer, Binjari, Forrest (WA), Alice Springs and King Ash Bay are towns possessing highest household size.”
Kiwirrkurra Community, Western Australia.
According to the United States Census, when Rudy died, Monowi surpassed nearby Gross, Nebraska, (population: 2) to become the only incorporated town in the US with just one resident. Ever since, Eiler – and the town she runs – has become the subject of a lot of attention.
At the other end of the scale is Darwin, least populated city in Australia, with a population of 140,000 people and a population density of only 44.98 people per square kilometer.
The city with the lowest population density in Australia is Hobart, which has an average of 125 people per square kilometer. Measuring by states, the ACT has the highest population density (179 people / square km) and the Northern Territory has the lowest (0.2 people / square km).
New South Wales is the most populous state of Australia, while Tasmania is the least populous state.
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.
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.
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.
Wahroonga in New South Wales
The suburb of Wahroonga was named after the aboriginal word 'our home'. The area is one of the quietest places in Australia to live. It is suitable for people raising a family, students, or for single residents.
At the time of the 2016 Census, 2.3 million people were living in small towns, or 9.7% of the Australian population. Australia-wide, there were just over 1,700 small towns.
Vatican City has a population of about one thousand people. It is an independent city-state that is only 110 acres big. That makes it not only one of the smallest cities but the smallest sovereign state in the entire world by both area and populace.