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Each capital city forms its own Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA), which according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) represents a broad functional definition of each of the eight state and territory capital cities. [1] In Australia, the population of the GCCSA is the most-often quoted figure for the population of capital ...
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
The population, population density and land area for the cities listed are based on the entire city proper, the defined boundary or border of a city or the city limits of the city. The population density of the cities listed is based on the average number of people living per square kilometer or per square mile.
Australia has an average population density of 3.6 persons per square kilometre of total land area, which makes it one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. This is generally attributed to the semi-arid and desert geography of much of the interior of the country.
The population density exceeds 19,500 inhabitants per square kilometre in central Melbourne. [175] In 2021 Australia had 10% of the global permanent meadows and pastureland. [176] Forest cover is around 17% of Australia's total land area. [177] [178] Fitzroy Island, one of the 600 islands within the main archipelago of the Great Barrier Reef
With a population density of 2037 people per square kilometre, the urban core has population density five times that of the greater region. [2] [3] Sydney is the most densely populated city in Australia and is also the busiest city in Australia. The median age of Sydney residents was 37 years, and households comprised an average of 2.7 members ...
Urban area Country Built-up land area (km 2) Population Urban population density (per km 2) Greater Los Angeles United States: 87,940 18,316,743 541.1 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (Bay Area) United States: 26,390 9,710,000 953 New York City (New York City Metropolitan Area) United States: 12,093 20,902,000 1,728 Boston–Providence United ...
The location of Victoria in relation to the rest of Australia. Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a state in southeastern Australia.It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of 227,444 km 2 (87,817 sq mi); the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 6.7 million; [1] and the most densely populated state in Australia (29.5 ...