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Sydney
33.92° S, 151.18° E
- Population
- 4,630,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 28
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 28 cities of Australia in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Australia, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1788
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Area
- 12,145 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- New South Wales
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-20
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Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Sydney, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Sydney have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
