This is a list of cities in Australia arranged by state.
Australian Capital Territory
- Canberra (National and territory capital city)
New South Wales
Since 1993, only local government areas in New South Wales can be declared as "cities" by the Government, under the Local Government Act 1993. Although the present version of the Act specifies no criteria for city status, a previous version of the Act specified that to be a city, a Council area must:
New South Wales, therefore, has two types of "city": cities that are acknowledged on the register of the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, and local government areas that have been proclaimed as cities but are not acknowledged on the Geographical Names Register.
Cities acknowledged on the NSW Geographical Names Register
* - City within the Sydney metropolitan area
Cities not acknowledged on the NSW Geographical Names Register
This list includes local government areas inside the Sydney metropolitan area but excludes cities also acknowledged on the Geographical Names Register.
* - LGA within the Sydney metropolitan area
Northern Territory
- Darwin (Territory capital)
- Palmerston
Queensland
* - LGA within the Brisbane metropolitan area.
Other towns or suburban areas whose local government was accorded City status (including those since amalgamated) include:
- Charters Towers
- Redcliffe City *
- Redland City *
- Thuringowa
- Warwick
South Australia
Tasmania
- Hobart (State capital), which consists of the conurbation of the City of Clarence, City of Hobart, and the City of Glenorchy
- Burnie
- Devonport
- Launceston
Victoria
* - City within the Melbourne metropolitan area
Western Australia
* - City within the Perth metropolitan area
Local government areas with city status not listed above, all of which lie within Perth's metropolitan area, include:
See also
- List of cities in Australia by population
- Lists of cities by country
- List of cities in Oceania
References
External links
- Map of cities of Australia
- A Gazetteer of Australian Cities, Towns and Suburbs (Monash University)
- Detailed map of cities of Australia