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:
“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats ... these are the facts.”
—Alexander Trocchi (19251983)
“... 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 ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“We are in danger ... of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (19111978)