69 Facts About Sydney NSW

Sydney NSW is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania.

Sydney NSW is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas.

The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney NSW stands are the clans of the Darug, Dharawal and Eora peoples.

Sydney NSW has hosted major international sporting events such as the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Aboriginal clan names within the Sydney NSW region were often formed by adding the suffix "-gal" to a word denoting the name for their territory, a specific place in their territory, a food source, or totem.

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The modern Greater Sydney NSW area covers the traditional lands of 28 known Aboriginal clans.

Free settlers, free-born residents and former convicts now represented the vast majority of the population of Sydney NSW, leading to increasing public agitation for responsible government and an end to transportation.

The town of Sydney NSW was declared a city the same year, and a governing council established, elected on a restrictive property franchise.

Daylight bathing at Sydney NSW's beaches was banned, but segregated bathing at designated ocean baths was popular.

Meanwhile, the Sydney NSW-based premier of New South Wales, George Reid, became a key figure in the process of federation.

The population reached one million in 1926, after Sydney NSW had regained its position as the most populous city in Australia.

In January 1938, Sydney NSW celebrated the Empire Games and the sesquicentenary of European settlement in Australia.

Sydney NSW was attacked by Japanese submarines in May and June 1942 with 21 lives lost.

Sydney NSW is a coastal basin with the Tasman Sea to the east, the Blue Mountains to the west, the Hawkesbury River to the north, and the Woronora Plateau to the south.

Sydney NSW is made up of mostly Triassic rock with some recent igneous dykes and volcanic necks .

The Sydney NSW Basin was formed when the Earth's crust expanded, subsided, and filled with sediment in the early Triassic period.

Directly overlying the older Hawkesbury sandstone is the Wianamatta shale, a geological feature found in western Sydney NSW that was deposited in connection with a large river delta during the Middle Triassic period which shifted over time from west to east.

Sydney NSW is home to dozens of bird species, which commonly include the Australian raven, Australian magpie, crested pigeon, noisy miner and the pied currawong, among others.

Sydney NSW has a few mammal and spider species, such as the grey-headed flying fox and the Sydney NSW funnel-web, respectively, and has a huge diversity of marine species inhabiting its harbour and many beaches.

Under the Koppen–Geiger classification, Sydney NSW has a humid subtropical climate with "warm [and] sometimes hot" summers and "cool" winters, as described by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Since Sydney NSW is downwind of the Great Dividing Range, it frequently experiences dry, westerly foehn winds usually in winter and spring .

The Sydney NSW CBD is characterised by considerably narrow streets and thoroughfares, created in its convict beginnings in the 18th century.

The Greater Sydney NSW Commission envisions a resident population of 1,338,250 people by 2036 in its Eastern City District .

Southern Sydney NSW includes the suburbs in the local government areas of former Rockdale, Georges River Council, and broadly it includes the suburbs in the local government area of Sutherland, south of the Georges River .

Suburb of Cronulla in southern Sydney NSW is close to Royal National Park, Australia's oldest national park.

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North Sydney NSW is dominated by advertising, marketing businesses and associated trades, with many large corporations holding office in the region.

Hills district generally refers to the suburbs in north-western Sydney NSW including the local government areas of The Hills Shire, parts of the City of Parramatta Council and Hornsby Shire.

Sydney NSW Zoo, opened in 2019, is another prominent zoo situated in Bungaribee.

Sydney NSW is home to Australia's first building by renowned Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, based on the design of a tree house.

The tallest structure is Sydney NSW Tower, designed by Donald Crone and completed in 1981.

Sydney NSW surpasses both New York City and Paris real estate prices, having some of the most expensive in the world.

Sydney NSW is one of the most expensive real estate markets globally.

Royal Botanic Garden is the most iconic green space in the Sydney NSW region, hosting both scientific and leisure activities.

Sydney NSW has been ranked between the fifteenth and the fifth most expensive city in the world and is the most expensive city in Australia.

Western Sydney NSW continues to struggle to create jobs to meet its population growth despite the development of commercial centres like Parramatta.

Home ownership in Sydney NSW was less common than renting prior to the Second World War but this trend has since reversed.

Sydney NSW makes up half of Australia's finance sector and has been promoted by consecutive Commonwealth Governments as Asia Pacific's leading financial centre.

In 1985 the Federal Government granted 16 banking licences to foreign banks and now 40 of the 43 foreign banks operating in Australia are based in Sydney NSW, including the People's Bank of China, Bank of America, Citigroup, UBS, Mizuho Bank, Bank of China, Banco Santander, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered, State Street, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Royal Bank of Canada, Societe Generale, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sumitomo Mitsui, ING Group, BNP Paribas, and Investec.

Sydney NSW has been a manufacturing city since the protectionist policies of the 1920s.

Observers have noted Sydney NSW's focus on the domestic market and high-tech manufacturing as reasons for its resilience against the high Australian dollar of the early 2010s.

The Smithfield-Wetherill Park Industrial Estate in Western Sydney NSW is the largest industrial estate in the Southern Hemisphere and is the centre of manufacturing and distribution in the region.

Sydney NSW is a gateway to Australia for many international visitors.

Sydney NSW is the highest-ranking city in the world for international students.

Between 1971 and 2018, Sydney NSW experienced a net loss of 716,832 people to the rest of Australia, but its population grew due to overseas arrivals and a healthy birth rate.

Crime in Sydney NSW is low, with The Independent ranking Sydney NSW as the fifth safest city in the world in 2019.

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The Sydney NSW Observatory building was constructed in 1859 and used for astronomy and meteorology research until 1982 before being converted into a museum.

Sydney NSW is home to Event Cinemas' first theatre, which opened on George St in 1913, under its former Greater Union brand; the theatre currently operates, and is regarded as one of Australia's busiest cinema locations.

Since the infancy of the establishment, much of the literature set in Sydney NSW were concerned with life in the city's slums and working-class communities, notably William Lane's The Working Man's Paradise, Christina Stead's Seven Poor Men of Sydney NSW and Ruth Park's The Harp in the South .

Filmmaking in Sydney NSW was quite prolific until the 1920s when spoken films were introduced and American productions gained dominance in Australian cinema.

The National Institute of Dramatic Art is based in Sydney NSW and has several famous alumni such as Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Baz Luhrmann, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Jacqueline Mckenzie.

Sydney NSW is the host of several festivals throughout the year.

Vivid Sydney NSW is an annual outdoor exhibition of art installations, light projections, and music.

In 2015, Sydney NSW was ranked 13th for being the top fashion capitals in the world.

Sydney NSW heralded Australia's first newspaper, the Sydney NSW Gazette, published until 1842.

The New South Wales Waratahs contest the Super Rugby competition, while the Sydney NSW Rays represent the city in the National Rugby Championship.

Sydney NSW benefitted from the construction of significant sporting infrastructure in preparation for its hosting of the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Sydney NSW co-hosted the FIBA Oceania Championship in 1979,1985,1989,1995,2007,2009 and 2011.

The 31 local government areas making up Sydney NSW according to the New South Wales Division of Local Government are:.

Sydney NSW is the location of the secondary official residences of the Governor-General of Australia and the Prime Minister of Australia, Admiralty House and Kirribilli House respectively.

In common with other Australian capital cities, Sydney NSW has no single local government covering its whole area.

In federal politics, Sydney NSW was initially considered as a possibility for Australia's capital city; the newly created city of Canberra ultimately filled this role.

Public vocational education and training in Sydney NSW are run by TAFE New South Wales and began with the opening of the Sydney NSW Technical College in 1878.

The Sydney NSW Hospital housed Australia's first teaching facility for nurses, the Nightingale Wing, established with the input of Florence Nightingale in 1868.

Sydney NSW once had one of the largest tram networks in the British Empire after London.

Sydney NSW's railway was first constructed in 1854 with progressive extension to the network to serve both freight and passengers across the city, suburbs, and beyond to rural New South Wales.

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The development led to the release of the Metropolitan Air Quality Scheme, which led to a broader understanding of the causation of pollution in Sydney NSW, allowing the government to form appropriate responses to the pollution.

City of Sydney NSW became the first council in Australia to achieve formal certification as carbon-neutral in 2008.

Sydney NSW has become a leader in the development of green office buildings and enforcing the requirement of all building proposals to be energy-efficient.

State-owned corporation WaterSydney NSW now manages eleven major dams: Warragamba one of the largest domestic water supply dams in the world, Woronora, Cataract, Cordeaux, Nepean, Avon, Wingecarribee Reservoir, Fitzroy Falls Reservoir, Tallowa, the Blue Mountains Dams, and Prospect Reservoir.