Sydney
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Sydney is the Harbour City. It is the largest, oldest and most cosmopolitan city in Australia with an enviable reputation as one of the world's most beautiful and liveable cities.
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The Sydney City Centre was where Governor Arthur Phillip first raised the British Flag on Australian soil in January 1788, the earliest site of European settlement in Australia.
Immediately to the east of the City Centre and also adjacent to City South is an area of laneways, nightlife, cafes, pubs, bars and entertainment.
The Inner West of Sydney stretches from the small inner city suburb of Chippendale to the secondary railway hub and business-retail centre of Strathfield and also Sydney Olympic Park to the west.
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Parramatta is a western district of Sydney, a city in its own right within the Sydney Metropolitan Area and the second oldest European settlement on the Australian mainland.
Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport is the main airport of Australia's largest city, Sydney.
The Lower North Shore is the metropolitan area on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour and is surrounded by Middle Harbour to the east and Lane Cove River to the west.
The Eastern Suburbs of Sydney are located between Sydney City and the coast, on the southern side of the harbour.
The Rocks is sandstone buildings, history, laneways, culture and Australiana by day, and a busy pub scene by night.
Macquarie Park-Ryde is the metropolitan area on the northern bank of the Parramatta River and is bordered by Lane Cove National Park to the east and north and Parramatta and the Hills District to the west.
The City South district is home to Australia's largest Chinatown as well as its largest train station, Central station.
St George & Sutherland Shire is a district about 25 km south of Sydney City, centred around the Georges River and bounded by Botany Bay and Port Hacking.
The Harbour Islands are Sydney's best kept secret. There are several in the harbour that you can visit to explore, for a picnic, or just to take in the history and the view.
Airport & Botany Bay is an arbitrary district name, for the areas surrounding Botany Bay and also those directly south of Sydney, which includes Sydney Airport, Redfern, Alexandria, Brighton le Sands, Mascot and Rockdale among others.
Sydney
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- Population: 4,840,000
- IATA airport code: SYD
- Latitude: 33° 51' 35.9" (33.86°) south
- Longitude: 151° 12' 40" (151.2111°) east
- Elevation: 58 meters (190 feet)
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- Wikimedia Commons: Sydney
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Abkhazian: Сиднеи
Amharic: ሲድኒ
Arabic: سيدني
Armenian: Սիդնեյ
Azerbaijani: Sidney
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Central Bikol: Sidney
Central Khmer: ស៊ីដនីយ៏
Central Kurdish: سیدنی
Chechen: Сидней
Chinese: 悉尼
Chuvash: Сидней
Dimli: Sidney
Eastern Mari: Сидней
Egyptian Arabic: سيدنى
English: Syd
English: Sydney City
Esperanto: Sidnejo
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Galician: Sidney
Georgian: სიდნეი
Greek: Σίδνεϋ
Gujarati: સીડની
Hakka Chinese: Sit-nì
Hebrew: סידני
Hindi: सिडनी
Japanese: シドニー
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Kara-Kalpak: Sidney
Karachay-Balkar: Сидней
Kazakh: Сидней
Kirghiz: Сидней
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Kurdish: Sîdney
Latin: Sanctus Dionysius
Latin: Sydneium
Latvian: Sidneja
Lezghian: Сидней
Lithuanian: Sidnėjus
Macedonian: Сиднеј
Malayalam: സിഡ്നി
Marathi: सिडनी
Mazanderani: سیدنی
Min Dong Chinese: Sék-nà̤
Mongolian: Сидней
Nepali: सिड्नी
Newari: सिद्नी
Official Aramaic: ܣܝܕܢܝ
Ossetian: Сидней
Panjabi: ਸਿਡਨੀ
Persian: سیدنی
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Sidni
Russian: Сидней
Rusyn: Сідні
Samogitian: Sėdniejos
Sanskrit: सिडनी
Serbian: Сиднеј
Sinhala: සිඩ්නි
South Azerbaijani: سیدنی
Spanish: Sídney
Tamil: சிட்னி
Tatar: Сидней
Telugu: సిడ్నీ
Thai: ซิดนีย์
Tibetan: སིད་ནེ།
Turkish: Sidney
Turkmen: Sidneý
Uighur: Sidnéy
Ukrainian: Сідней
Urdu: سڈنی
Uzbek: Sidney
Veps: Sidnei
Western Panjabi: سڈنی
Wu Chinese: 悉尼
Yakut: Сидней
Yiddish: סידני
Yue Chinese: 雪梨
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