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 |
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| Rank | City Name | State | Pop. | Rank | City Name | State | Pop. |
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| 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 | ||||
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Australia
Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
—John Ruskin (18191900)
“Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women. The ultimate victory, the ultimate victory of tomorrow is with democracy; and true democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I dont want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)