This is a list of cities in Australia arranged by state.

Contents 1 Australian Capital Territory 2 New South Wales 2.1 Cities acknowledged on the NSW Geographical Names Register 2.2 Local Government Areas declared as cities 3 Northern Territory 4 Queensland 5 South Australia 6 Tasmania 7 Victoria 8 Western Australia 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

[edit] Australian Capital Territory

• Canberra (Capital City)

[edit] 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.^[1] Although the present version of the Act specifies no criteria for city status,^[2] 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,^[4] and Local Government Areas which have been proclaimed as cities.

[edit] Cities acknowledged on the NSW Geographical Names Register

Sydney (Capital) [4] Albury Armidale Bathurst Blue Mountains* Broken Hill Campbelltown * Cessnock Dubbo Goulburn Grafton

Lithgow Liverpool * Newcastle Orange Parramatta * Penrith * Queanbeyan Tamworth Wagga Wagga Wollongong

* - City within the Sydney metropolitan area

[edit] Local Government Areas declared as cities

This list includes Local Government Areas inside the Sydney metropolitan area but excludes cities also acknowledged on the Geographical Names Register.

City of Bankstown * City of Blacktown * City of Botany Bay * City of Canada Bay * City of Canterbury * City of Coffs Harbour City of Fairfield * City of Gosford City of Greater Taree City of Griffith[5] City of Hawkesbury

City of Holroyd * City of Hurstville * City of Lake Macquarie City of Lismore City of Lithgow City of Maitland City of Randwick * City of Rockdale * City of Ryde * City of Shellharbour City of Shoalhaven

* - LGA within the Sydney metropolitan area

[edit] Northern Territory

• Darwin (Capital)
• Palmerston

[edit] Queensland

Brisbane (Capital) Bundaberg Cairns Caloundra Charters Towers Gladstone Gold Coast Hervey Bay Ipswich

Logan City Mackay Maryborough Mount Isa Redcliffe Rockhampton Toowoomba Townsville

[edit] South Australia

• Adelaide (Capital)
• Mount Gambier
• Murray Bridge
• Port Augusta
• Port Pirie
• Port Lincoln
• Victor Harbor
• Whyalla

[edit] Tasmania

• Greater Hobart (Capital), which consists of the conurbation of the City of Clarence, City of Hobart, and the City of Glenorchy
• Burnie
• Devonport
• Launceston

[edit] Victoria

Melbourne (Capital) Ararat Benalla Ballarat Bendigo Dandenong * Frankston * Geelong Hamilton Horsham Melton * Moe

Morwell Mildura Sale Shepparton Swan Hill Traralgon Wangaratta Warrnambool Wodonga

* - City within the Melbourne metropolitan area

[edit] Western Australia

The following list is of cities in Western Australia.

Perth (Capital) * Albany Armadale * Bayswater * Belmont * Bunbury Canning * Cockburn * Fremantle * Geraldton Gosnells *

Joondalup * Kalgoorlie Mandurah Melville * Nedlands * Rockingham * South Perth * Stirling * Subiaco * Swan * Wanneroo *

* - City within the Perth metropolitan area

[edit] See also

• List of cities in Australia by population
• Local Government Areas of Australia
• Cities of present-day nations and states
• List of cities in Oceania

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Map of cities of Australia
• A Gazetteer of Australian Cities, Towns and Suburbs (Monash University)

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