List of cities in Australia

The definition of a city in Australia varies between the states. State capital cities may include multiple local government areas (LGAs) within their boundaries and these LGAs may be cities in their own right. Cities listed below are those as defined by the states in which they are located. Also included are former cities that have lost city status due to LGA amalgamations or other factors.

Australian Capital Territory

Canberra (national and territory capital city)

New South Wales

Since 1993, only local government areas in New South Wales can be declared as "cities" by the Government, under the Local Government Act 1993. Although the present version of the Act specifies no criteria for city status, a previous version of the Act specified that to be a city, a Council area must:

(a) have a population of at least 25,000 persons and be an independent centre of population; not being a suburb, whether residential, industrial, commercial or maritime, of any other council area or centre of population; or
(b) have a population of at least 150,000, and have a distinct character and entity as a centre of population beyond what would normally be regarded as being of local or suburban significance only; or
(c) satisfy the criteria specified in paragraphs (a) or (b) apart from the population criteria, and be a homogenous centre of importance as a focus of regional commercial, governmental or cultural activity beyond that which would normally be regarded as local, suburban, or subsidiary to another nearby centre.

New South Wales, therefore, has two types of "city": cities that are acknowledged on the register of the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, and local government areas that have been proclaimed as cities but are not acknowledged on the Geographical Names Register.

Cities acknowledged on the NSW Geographical Names Register

Cities not acknowledged on the NSW Geographical Names Register

This list includes local government areas inside the Sydney metropolitan area but excludes cities also acknowledged on the Geographical Names Register:

Former local government areas that were accorded city status (however since amalgamated) include:

Northern Territory

Darwin (territory capital)
Palmerston

Queensland

Other towns or suburban areas whose local government was accorded city status (including those since amalgamated) include:

South Australia

Tasmania

Hobart (state capital), the metropolitan area of which consists of the City of Clarence, City of Hobart, and the City of Glenorchy
Burnie
Devonport
Launceston

Victoria

Western Australia

Local government areas with city status not listed above, all of which lie within Perth's metropolitan area, include:

Notes

^ City within the Sydney metropolitan area
^ City within the Melbourne metropolitan area
^ City within the Perth metropolitan area

References

Local Government Act 1993 Archived 15 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Chapter 9 – "How are Councils Established?". Accessed via AUSTLII on 26 April 2007.
Robert Harrison MLA, Private Members' Statement: Proposed Shellharbour City Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Hansard, 23 November 1995, p. 3960. Accessed 26 April 2007.
Garry West MLA, Questions on Notice: Hastings Council Name Change Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Hansard, 19 November 1993, pp. 6008–9. Accessed 26 April 2007.
"Geographical Names Register Extract: List of placenames acknowledged as a CITY". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Archived from the original (.CSV) on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2008.
"History of Griffith". Griffith City Council. Archived from the original on 26 July 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2008.

External links

Map of cities of Australia at archive.today (archived 2012-12-10)
A Gazetteer of Australian Cities, Towns and Suburbs (Monash University)
Detailed map of cities of Australia

v t e Cities of Australia
Australian Capital Territory	Canberra (national capital)
New South Wales	Albury Armidale Bathurst Broken Hill Cessnock Coffs Harbour Dubbo Gosford Goulburn Grafton Griffith Lake Macquarie Lismore Lithgow Maitland Newcastle Orange Port Macquarie Queanbeyan Sydney Tamworth Wagga Wagga Wollongong
Northern Territory	Darwin Palmerston
Queensland	Brisbane Bundaberg Cairns Caloundra Gladstone Gold Coast Gympie Hervey Bay Ipswich Mackay Maryborough Mount Isa Rockhampton Sunshine Coast Toowoomba Townsville
South Australia	Adelaide Mount Gambier Murray Bridge Port Augusta Port Lincoln Port Pirie Victor Harbor Whyalla
Tasmania	Burnie Devonport Hobart Launceston
Victoria	Ararat Bairnsdale Ballarat Benalla Bendigo Castlemaine Colac Geelong Hamilton Horsham Melbourne Mildura Moe Morwell Portland Sale Seymour Shepparton Stawell Swan Hill Traralgon Wangaratta Warragul Warrnambool Wodonga
Western Australia	Albany Bunbury Busselton Geraldton Kalgoorlie-Boulder Mandurah Perth

v t e List of cities in Oceania
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