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Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west ...
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The City of Sydney is the local government area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established by Act of Parliament in 1842, the City of Sydney is the oldest, and the oldest-surviving, local government authority in New South Wales, and the second ...
Satellite photo of the Sydney (centre) area at night, facing west by northwest. Regional NSW areas can be seen on this map such as Wollongong in the Illawarra region can be seen at the bottom left, Bowral and Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands region can be seen in the far left, as well as Gosford in the Central Coast region is visible at the far right.
Geographic distribution of the main ethno-cultural communities of Sydney according to the 2016 census [1] Map of the median age of Sydney residents by Postal Area in the 2011 census. Sydney is Australia's most populous city, and is also the most populous city in Oceania.
The city has fault lines which run considerably deep beneath the Sydney basin, dating back to when New Zealand started breaking away from Australia more than 85 million years ago. [11] [12] To the east the basin continues to the edge of the continental shelf. [13] The Australian continental shelf is about 25.9 km (16.1 mi) away from Sydney Heads.
Landsat 7 false-color image of the Sydney area and surrounding suburbs. The image demonstrates how the built-up areas (pink) have been constrained by the Royal National Park to the south, the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to the north, and the Blue Mountains National Park to the west (a boundary that generally follows a geological feature called the Lapstone Monocline, dividing the Blue ...
The colony is named "Sydney", after the British Home Secretary, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1788) Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars (1790–1816) List of governors of New South Wales