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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]
List of Australian place names changed from German names; N. New Holland (Australia) P. Permanent Committee on Place Names; S. Locations in Australia with a Scottish ...
List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin; B. List of Blue Mountains subjects; List of places associated with the Burke and Wills expedition; C.
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:
They may be termed cities, councils, regions, shires, towns, or other names, and all function similarly. Local government areas cover around 90 per cent of the nation. Significant sections of South Australia and New South Wales are unincorporated, that is, have no defined local government, along with the ACT and smaller sections of Northern ...
Victoria - Place Names Committee - Survey Co-ordination (Place Names) Act 1965, updated to Geographic Place Names Act 1998 [7] [8] Western Australia - Geographic Names Committee [9] [10] - Land Administration Act 1997 [11] (originally the Nomenclature Advisory Committee, appointed in 1936) As of January 2012, there are 370,000 place names in ...
For example, Oxley is a place name in England, but Oxley, Queensland is named for the explorer John Oxley rather than the English place. Similarly, Kenilworth is a place name in England, but Kenilworth, Queensland is reportedly named after a novel of that name. In some cases the place name in England is that of a residence or farm; for example ...
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 ...