Demographics of Australia - Cities

Cities

Australia has around five cities which have over one million people, which is significant for a small population. Some are amongst the most important and global cities in the world.

Largest populated areas in Australia
Rank City Name State Pop. Rank City Name State Pop.
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Sydney

Melbourne
1 Sydney NSW 4,605,992 11 Greater Hobart TAS 216,276
2 Melbourne VIC 4,169,103 12 Geelong VIC 174,087
3 Brisbane QLD 2,146,577 13 Townsville QLD 167,636
4 Perth WA 1,832,114 14 Cairns QLD 146,477
5 Adelaide SA 1,262,940 15 Darwin NT 129,062
6 Gold Coast-Tweed QLD / NSW 576,747 16 Toowoomba QLD 125,265
7 Newcastle NSW 540,002 17 Launceston TAS 107,746
8 Canberra-Queanbeyan ACT / NSW 418,292 18 Albury-Wodonga NSW / VIC 103,209
9 Wollongong NSW 288,101 19 Ballarat VIC 95,007
10 Sunshine Coast QLD 241,643 20 Bendigo VIC 89,666

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Famous quotes containing the word cities:

    “In bombers named for girls, we burned
    The cities we had learned about in school—
    Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
    The people we had killed and never seen.”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

    “... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics ...”
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    “How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.”
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