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Significant Urban Areas are defined to represent significant towns and cities, or agglomerations of smaller towns, that have at least 10,000 total population. Significant Urban Areas may contain more than one distinct Urban Centre.
The population of Australia is estimated to be 27,643,100 as of 30 January 2025. [11] It is the 54th [12] most populous country in the world and the most populous Oceanian country.
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:
The Bureau of Statistics' population clock ticks over to estimate Australia's population has reached 27 million. [ 59 ] Victoria's worst beach drowning event in twenty years occurs near Forrest Caves on Phillip Island when a total of four people from Melbourne's Indian community drown at an unpatrolled beach.
Population [2] (June 2010) Population (June 2024) National population share (%, June 2024) Annual Growth Rate (2019–24) Comparison as multiple of (June 2010 vs. June 2024) Victoria: 5,461,101 6,929,000 26.07% 1.49% 1.226 Australian Capital Territory: 361,766 436,713 1.68% 1.13% 1.192 Queensland: 4,404,744 5,387,000 20.15% 1.58% 1.175 Western ...
State and territory capitals of Australia State/territory Capital City population [2] State/territory population [3] Percentage of state/territory population in capital city Established Capital since Image New South Wales: Sydney: 5,029,768 7,759,274 64.82% 1788 1788 Victoria: Melbourne: 4,725,316 6,179,249 76.47% 1835 1851 Queensland: Brisbane ...
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [17] is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [18] Australia has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania .
Australia is one of the most urbanised nations, with 90 percent of the population living in just 0.22 per cent of the country’s land area and 87 percent living within 50 kilometres of the coast. [1]