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Thursday, September 14, 2023

Where's Where In Australia and how to remember Australian States



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.

Map in Wiki from 

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Largest populated areas in Australia
RankNameStatePop.RankNameStatePop.
1SydneyNSW5,259,76411GeelongVic289,400
2MelbourneVic4,976,15712HobartTas251,047
3BrisbaneQld2,568,92713TownsvilleQld181,665
4PerthWA2,192,22914CairnsQld155,638
5AdelaideSA1,402,39315DarwinNT148,801
6Gold CoastTweed HeadsQld/NSW706,67316ToowoombaQld143,994
7NewcastleMaitlandNSW509,89417BallaratVic111,702
8CanberraQueanbeyanACT/NSW482,25018BendigoVic102,899
9Sunshine CoastQld355,63119Albury-WodongaNSW/Vic97,676
10WollongongNSW


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 and territory capitals of Australia
State/territoryCapitalCity population[2]State/territory
population[3]
Percentage of state/territory
population in capital city
EstablishedCapital sinceImage
 New South WalesSydney5,029,7687,759,27464.82%17881788
 VictoriaMelbourne4,725,3166,179,24976.47%18351851
 QueenslandBrisbane2,360,2414,848,87748.68%18251860
 Western AustraliaPerth2,022,0442,558,95179.02%18291829
 South AustraliaAdelaide1,324,2791,713,05477.31%18361836View of Adelaide CBD
 TasmaniaHobart224,462517,58843.37%18041826
 Australian Capital TerritoryCanberra403,468403,468100.00%19131913
 Northern TerritoryDarwin145,916245,74059.38%18691911

References[edit]

  1. ^ Norfolk Island - Kingston http://www.pitcairners.org/vt_kingston.html Norfolk Island's Home on the Web
  2. ^ Statistics, c=AU; o=Commonwealth of Australia; ou=Australian Bureau of (28 July 2017). "Main Features - Main Features"www.abs.gov.au.
  3. ^ 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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