Melbourne is now officially Australia's biggest city, overtaking Sydney | CNN.
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. Ask pupils to match the state to the state capital using slide five on the PowerPoint.
For the first time since the gold rush, Melbourne's population has overtaken Sydney, with our southern brethren clocking in at 18,700 more people than the Emerald City. These stats are actually from June 2021, with it revealed that Melbourne has actually been (quietly) bigger than Sydney since 2018.
But Greater Melbourne has long been predicted to overtake Greater Sydney, and is estimated to take the crown of Australia's most populous city on that measure by 2031-32.
Melbourne has overtaken Sydney to become Australia's largest city by population — thanks to a technicality. The borders of the city, which is the capital of the state of Victoria, have been redrawn to include the district of Melton, allowing Melbourne to leapfrog Sydney, CNN affiliate 9News reports.
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.
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.
Tokyo is the world's largest city by urban area and metropolitan area.
We're here to answer the question, Should I Visit Melbourne or Sydney? Both cities offer a unique Australian flavour, yet they are so different. Melbourne is considered the cultural capital of the country, while Sydney's undeniable landscapes, weather and nature always remains an allure to travellers.
Australia is colloquially known as "the Land Down Under" (or just "Down Under"), which derives from the country's position in the Southern Hemisphere, at the antipodes of the United Kingdom.
Most of Australia's people live in the large core region in the east along the coast. This region extends from Brisbane to Adelaide and holds most of the country's population.
Sydney is Australia's oldest and largest city, home of about 3.7 million people. It is Australia's most important industrial city and the capital of New South Wales .
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.
Magical Mullumbimby is one such town, located at the foot of Mount Chincogan beside the Brunswick River. This scenic little town is fondly referred to by the locals as 'Mullum' with it's very welcoming sign at the entrance into the town indicating that it is 'the biggest little town in Australia'.
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.
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.
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.
When compared to New York, which has a population density of 10,194/ km2, Melbourne's is extremely low. Still, New York is a city with a smaller area (783.8 km²) and a larger number of inhabitants of about 8.5 million.
So Melbourne is about the same size as London and Paris but has less than half the population. Brisbane is a similar size to Milan, with half the population. Perth is larger than Berlin, but has around half the population.
However the federal government predicts Greater Melbourne will overtake Greater Sydney in 2031-32. Melbourne's rapid growth is largely thanks to international migration, Australian National University demographer Liz Allen told the BBC.