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Each capital city forms its own Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA), which according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) represents a broad functional definition of each of the eight state and territory capital cities. [1] In Australia, the population of the GCCSA is the most-often quoted figure for the population of capital ...
Melbourne has overtaken Sydney to become Australia's most populous city for the first time in over 100 years due to a boundary change. Melbourne now has 18,700 more citizens than Sydney, according ...
^a All population figures from ABS Regional Population, 2021, using Greater Capital City Statistical Area figures for capital cities ... Largest cities of Australia.
Melbourne is projected to overtake Sydney as Australia's most populous city sometime between 2032 and 2046. [ 214 ] After a trend of declining population density since World War II, the city has seen increased density in the inner and western suburbs , aided in part by Victorian Government planning, such as Postcode 3000 and Melbourne 2030 ...
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west ...
Since 1993, only local government areas in New South Wales can be declared as "cities" by the Government, under the Local Government Act 1993. [1] Although the present version of the Act specifies no criteria for city status, [2] a previous version of the Act specified that to be a city, a Council area must:
Estimated resident population, June 2021 [1] Melbourne Australia: 5,096,298 Estimated resident population, June 2021 [1] Brisbane Australia: 2,568,927 Estimated resident population, June 2021 [1] Perth Australia: 2,099,530 Significant Urban Area, June 2021 [1] Auckland New Zealand: 1,715,600 Urban area provisional resident population, June 2024 ...
With a population density of 2037 people per square kilometre, the urban core has population density five times that of the greater region. [2] [3] Sydney is the most densely populated city in Australia and is also the busiest city in Australia. The median age of Sydney residents was 37 years, and households comprised an average of 2.7 members ...