Sydney (/ˈsɪdni/ (listen) SID-nee, Dharug: Cadi) is the state
capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and
Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds
Port Jackson and extends about 70 km (43.5 mi) on its periphery
towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the
Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west.
Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government
areas. Informally there are at least 15 regions. Residents of the city
are known as "Sydneysiders". As of June 2019, Sydney's estimated
metropolitan population was 5,312,163, meaning the city is home to
approximately 65% of the state's population.Indigenous Australians
have inhabited the Sydney area for at least 30,000 years, and
thousands of engravings remain throughout the region, making it one of
the richest in Australia in terms of Aboriginal archaeological sites.
During his first Pacific voyage in 1770, Lieutenant James Cook and his
crew became the first Europeans to chart the eastern coast of
Australia, making landfall at Botany Bay and inspiring British
interest in the area. In 1788, the First Fleet of convicts, led by
Arthur Phillip, founded Sydney as a British penal colony, the first
European settlement in Australia. Phillip named the settlement after
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Penal transportation to New
South Wales ended soon after Sydney was incorporated as a city in
1842. A gold rush occurred in the colony in 1851, and over the next
century, Sydney transformed from a colonial outpost into a major
global cultural and economic centre. After World War II, it
experienced mass migration and became one of the most multicultural
cities in the world. At the time of the 2011 census, more than 250
different languages were spoken in Sydney. In the 2016 Census, about
35.8% of residents spoke a language other than English at home.
Furthermore, 45.4% of the population reported having been born
overseas, and the city has the third-largest foreign-born population
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