List of cities in Australia

Template:Short description Template:Pp-semi-indef Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates 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

Template:See also Since 1993, only local government areas in New South Wales can be declared as "cities" by the Government, under the Local Government Act 1993.<ref>Local Government Act 1993 Template:Webarchive, Chapter 9 – "How are Councils Established?". Accessed via AUSTLII on 26 April 2007.</ref> Although the present version of the Act specifies no criteria for city status,<ref name="Hansard1">Robert Harrison MLA, Private Members' Statement: Proposed Shellharbour City Template:Webarchive, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Hansard, 23 November 1995, p. 3960. Accessed 26 April 2007.</ref> 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.<ref>Garry West MLA, Questions on Notice: Hastings Council Name Change Template:Webarchive, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Hansard, 19 November 1993, pp. 6008–9. Accessed 26 April 2007.</ref>

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,<ref name=gnb_city>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and local government areas that have been proclaimed as cities but are not acknowledged on the 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: Template:Columns-list Former local government areas that were accorded city status (however since amalgamated) include: Template:Columns-list

Northern Territory

• Darwin (territory capital)
• Palmerston

Queensland

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

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

Western Australia

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

See also

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

External links

• Template:Webarchive
• A Gazetteer of Australian Cities, Towns and Suburbs (Monash University)
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