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 | ||||
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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
When time is old and hath forgot itself,
When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up,
And mighty states characterless are grated
To dusty nothing, yet let memory
From false to false among false maids in love
Upbraid my falsehood.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the
prairies wide,
Over the dense-packed cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,
I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee, O death,”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“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.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)