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Major Cities in Australia

The following is the list of top 40 major cities in Australia is based on the population and rank along with the capital of the respective state and union territory.

Rank	City	State/Territory	Population (2012)
1	Sydney	New South Wales	4,667,283
2	Melbourne	Victoria	4,246,345
3	Brisbane	Queensland	2,189,878
4	Perth	Western Australia	1,897,548
5	Adelaide	South Australia	1,277,174
6	Gold Coast-Tweed	Queensland/New South Wales	590,889
7	Newcastle-Maitland	New South Wales	418,958
8	Canberra-Queanbeyan	Australian Capital Territory/New South Wales	411,609
9	Sunshine Coast	Queensland	285,169
10	Wollongong	New South Wales	282,099
11	Hobart	Tasmania	216,959
12	Geelong	Victoria	179,042
13	Townsville	Queensland	171,971
14	Cairns	Queensland	142,528
15	Darwin	Northern Territory	131,678
16	Toowoomba	Queensland	110,472
17	Ballarat	Victoria	95,021
18	Bendigo	Victoria	88,668
19	Launceston	Tasmania	86,109
20	Albury-Wodonga	New South Wales/Victoria	84,982
21	Mackay	Queensland	81,594
22	Rockhampton	Queensland	77,704
23	Bundaberg	Queensland	69,805
24	Bunbury	Western Australia	67,090
25	Coffs Harbour	New South Wales	66,610
26	Wagga Wagga	New South Wales	53,832
27	Hervey Bay	Queensland	50,431
28	Mildura-Wentworth	Victoria/New South Wales	48,783
29	Shepparton-Mooropna	Victoria	48,114
30	Gladstone-Tannum Sands	Queensland	44,355
31	Port Macquarie	New South Wales	43,587
32	Tamworth	New South Wales	40,832
33	Traralgon-Morwell	Victoria	40,602
34	Orange	New South Wales	38,516
35	Geraldton	Western Australia	38,030
36	Bowral-Mittagong	New South Wales	36,402
37	Dubbo	New South Wales	35,898
38	Nowra-Bomaderry	New South Wales	34,798
39	Bathurst	New South Wales	34,124
40	Warrnambool	Victoria	33,204

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