Up on Facebook pops a picture or a wonderful winery with an intriguing maze. The name of the place is Bago Winery, but where is it? In Australia. Where in Australia? New South Wales.
I'm sure all Australians know where that is. I don't, although I have been to Perth on the west coast, and Sydney on the East and Melbourne in the South and Canberra on a day trip, somewhere inland, as well as up the east coast to Brisbane, which is a cross between New York with skyscrapers and Blackpool with tourist attractions, along the beach strip.
Now, back to New South Wales. I google it and up comes a map. The main city is Sydney. That gives me a handy alliteration. Initial letter S. Sydney is in New South Wales.
I take a look at Australia in Wiki but don't get given the States which I would expect to be first. Finally, another search brings up the states. Two are easy to identify and remember. Western Austrlia is in the West. Southern Australia is in the south, in the centre of the South.
The two others are Queensland and Victoria. Fortunately they are in that order, reading noth to south. Queensland is north of New South Wales. Victoria is south of New South Wales.
Now I can look at a blank map and work out which state is which.
The island is Tasmania. Its capital is Hobart.
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Rank | Name | State | Pop. | Rank | Name | State | Pop. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sydney | NSW | 5,259,764 | 11 | Geelong | Vic | 289,400 | ||
2 | Melbourne | Vic | 4,976,157 | 12 | Hobart | Tas | 251,047 | ||
3 | Brisbane | Qld | 2,568,927 | 13 | Townsville | Qld | 181,665 | ||
4 | Perth | WA | 2,192,229 | 14 | Cairns | Qld | 155,638 | ||
5 | Adelaide | SA | 1,402,393 | 15 | Darwin | NT | 148,801 | ||
6 | Gold Coast–Tweed Heads | Qld/NSW | 706,673 | 16 | Toowoomba | Qld | 143,994 | ||
7 | Newcastle–Maitland | NSW | 509,894 | 17 | Ballarat | Vic | 111,702 | ||
8 | Canberra–Queanbeyan | ACT/NSW | 482,250 | 18 | Bendigo | Vic | 102,899 | ||
9 | Sunshine Coast | Qld | 355,631 | 19 | Albury-Wodonga | NSW/Vic | 97,676 | ||
10 | Wollongong | NSW |
There are eight capital cities in Australia, each of which functions as the seat of government for the state or territory in which it is located. One of these, Canberra, is also the national capital. Section 125 of the Constitution of Australia specified that the seat of the national government, that is, the national capital, would be in its own territory within New South Wales, at least 100 miles (161 km) from Sydney. The Constitution specified that until this national capital was ready, the Parliament would sit in Melbourne. In 1927, the national capital was finally ready and the national government relocated from its former seat in Melbourne to Canberra within the Australian Capital Territory (or the Federal Capital Territory as it was known at the time).
In each state and internal territory, the capital is also the jurisdiction's most populous city. The Australian external territory of Norfolk Island has its official capital at Kingston, although this acts merely as the administrative centre of government; its de facto capital is Burnt Pine.[1]
State/territory | Capital | City population[2] | State/territory population[3] | Percentage of state/territory population in capital city | Established | Capital since | Image |
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New South Wales | Sydney | 5,029,768 | 7,759,274 | 64.82% | 1788 | 1788 | |
Victoria | Melbourne | 4,725,316 | 6,179,249 | 76.47% | 1835 | 1851 | |
Queensland | Brisbane | 2,360,241 | 4,848,877 | 48.68% | 1825 | 1860 | |
Western Australia | Perth | 2,022,044 | 2,558,951 | 79.02% | 1829 | 1829 | |
South Australia | Adelaide | 1,324,279 | 1,713,054 | 77.31% | 1836 | 1836 | |
Tasmania | Hobart | 224,462 | 517,588 | 43.37% | 1804 | 1826 | |
Australian Capital Territory | Canberra | 403,468 | 403,468 | 100.00% | 1913 | 1913 | |
Northern Territory | Darwin | 145,916 | 245,740 | 59.38% | 1869 | 1911 |
References[edit]
- ^ Norfolk Island - Kingston http://www.pitcairners.org/vt_kingston.html Norfolk Island's Home on the Web
- ^ Statistics, c=AU; o=Commonwealth of Australia; ou=Australian Bureau of (28 July 2017). "Main Features - Main Features". www.abs.gov.au.
- ^ Statistics, c=AU; o=Commonwealth of Australia; ou=Australian Bureau of (28 July 2017). "Details - Main Features". www.abs.gov.au.
So, to sum up
Capital - State
Sydney - New South Wales
Melbourne - Victoria
Brisbane - QLD
Adelaide - SA
Perth - WA
Capital of Australia - Canberra
Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_capital_cities#:
For pictures of Bago Winery go to the previous post.
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