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City of Lismore. City of Maitland. City of Randwick [ a] City of Ryde [ a] City of Shellharbour. City of Shoalhaven. City of Willoughby [ a] Former local government areas that were accorded city status (however since amalgamated) include: City of Bankstown [ a] (1980)
17. Toowoomba (150k) 18. Ballarat (116k) 19. Bendigo (105k) 20. Albury–Wodonga (100k) These lists of Australian cities by population provide rankings of Australian cities and towns according to various systems defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics .
New South Wales. As of 21 February 2019 the Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW, which is maintained by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, lists 265 places that are assigned or recorded as towns in New South Wales. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Aberdare. Abermain. Adaminaby.
There are eight capital cities in Australia, each of which functions as the seat of government for the state or territory in which it is located. One of these, Canberra, is also the national capital. Section 125 of the Constitution of Australia specified that the seat of the national government, that is, the national capital, would be in its ...
For 40,000–70,000 years, the Australian mainland and Tasmania have been inhabited by the Australian Aboriginal people, and the Torres Strait Islands (now part of Queensland) by Torres Strait Islanders. Aboriginal people were hunter-gatherers and fire stick farmers who travelled between seasonal settlements inside country boundaries. Many ...
Western Australia is the largest state of Australia, with an area of 2,527,013 square kilometres (975,685 sq mi), [ 1] and its fourth most populous, with a population of 2,660,026 as of the 2021 Australian census. [ 2] Official population statistics are created by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, who have a census every five years.
This is a list of town and locality names in South Australia outside the metropolitan postal area of Adelaide.. For a list of suburbs in metropolitan areas of Adelaide, see lists inside following individual city council articles: City of Adelaide, City of Burnside, City of Campbelltown, City of Charles Sturt, Town of Gawler, City of Holdfast Bay, City of Marion, City of Mitcham, City of ...
Australian governments have officially named many places, particularly suburbs, after Aboriginal people or language groups, such as Aranda or Tullamarine. The place name has always been called thus by Aboriginal people, and Aboriginal people still live in the area.