List of cities in Australia

This is a list of cities in Australia arranged by state.

Australian Capital Territory

• Canberra (Capital City)

New South Wales

See also: Local government areas of New South Wales and List of Sydney suburbs

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:

• (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.^[3]

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,^[4] 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

Sydney (Capital) [4] Albury Armidale Bathurst Blue Mountains Broken Hill Campbelltown *

Cessnock Dubbo Goulburn Grafton Lithgow Liverpool * Newcastle

Orange Parramatta * Penrith * Queanbeyan Tamworth Wagga Wagga Wollongong

* - City within the Sydney metropolitan area

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.

City of Bankstown * City of Blacktown * City of Botany Bay * City of Canada Bay * City of Canterbury * City of Coffs Harbour

City of Fairfield * City of Gosford City of Greater Taree City of Griffith[5] City of Hawkesbury City of Holroyd *

City of Hurstville * City of Lake Macquarie City of Lismore City of Lithgow City of Maitland City of Randwick *

City of Rockdale * City of Ryde * City of Shellharbour City of Shoalhaven City of Willoughby *

* - LGA within the Sydney metropolitan area

Northern Territory

See also: Local government areas of the Northern Territory

• Darwin (Capital)
• Palmerston

Queensland

See also: List of local government areas of Queensland

Brisbane (Capital) Bundaberg Cairns Caloundra Gladstone Gold Coast

Gympie Hervey Bay Ipswich * Logan City * Mackay Maryborough

Mount Isa Rockhampton Sunshine Coast Surfers Paradise Toowoomba Townsville

* - Not contained within Brisbane City Council boundaries, but part of the Greater Brisbane conurbation.

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

• Charters Towers
• Redcliffe City *
• Redland City *
• Thuringowa
• Warwick

South Australia

See also: Local government areas of South Australia

Adelaide (Capital) Mount Barker Mount Gambier Murray Bridge Port Adelaide

Port Augusta Port Pirie Port Lincoln Victor Harbor Whyalla

Tasmania

See also: Local government areas of Tasmania

• Hobart (Capital), which consists of the conurbation of the City of Clarence, City of Hobart, and the City of Glenorchy
• Burnie
• Devonport
• Launceston

Victoria

See also: List of localities in Victoria (Australia) and List of local government areas of Victoria

Melbourne (Capital) Ararat Bairnsdale Benalla Ballarat Bendigo

Dandenong * Frankston * Geelong Hamilton Horsham Melton *

Moe Morwell Mildura Sale Shepparton Swan Hill

Traralgon Wangaratta Warrnambool Wodonga

* - City within the Melbourne metropolitan area

Western Australia

See also: Local government areas of Western Australia

Perth (Capital) * Albany Bunbury Fremantle * Geraldton

Joondalup * Kalgoorlie Mandurah Rockingham *

* - City within the Perth metropolitan area

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

City of Armadale City of Bayswater City of Canning City of Cockburn

City of Gosnells City of Melville City of Nedlands City of South Perth

City of Stirling City of Subiaco City of Swan City of Wanneroo

See also

• List of cities in Australia by population
• Lists of cities by country
• List of cities in Oceania

References

1. ^ Local Government Act 1993, Chapter 9 - "How are Councils Established?". Accessed via AUSTLII on 26 April 2007.
2. ^ Robert Harrison MLA, Private Members' Statement: Proposed Shellharbour City, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Hansard, 23 November 1995, p. 3960. Accessed 26 April 2007.
3. ^ Garry West MLA, Questions on Notice: Hastings Council Name Change, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Hansard, 19 November 1993, pp. 6008-9. Accessed 26 April 2007.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Geographical Names Register Extract: List of placenames acknowledged as a CITY" (.CSV). Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search?transaction=savefile&placename=&status=&designation=CITY&lga=None&map=&parish=. Retrieved 31 August 2008. 
5. ^ "History of Griffith". Griffith City Council. http://www.griffith.nsw.gov.au/page/PagePrint.asp?Page_Id=620. Retrieved 19 August 2008. 

External links

• Map of cities of Australia
• A Gazetteer of Australian Cities, Towns and Suburbs (Monash University)