History UsefulNotes / OtherAustralianTownsAndCities

* Mandurah, [[InternetBackdraft a southern suburb of Perth or the second-largest city in WA]] (see Geelong). Famous for its dolphins, crabs and for being the fastest-growing city in Australia at the TurnOfTheMillennium.

* Brisbane, the Queensland capital. Home of the Brisbane Broncos and the Brisbane Lions. The try-hard of the eastern capitals, attempting to match Melbourne and Sydney and failing every time, or at least that's what those southern snobs like to think. Clearly it's so backward that the Mexicans (aka people from South of the Queensland/New South Wales border) keep coming there to live.

** Oh, and this bloke called Frederick Valentich disappeared when flying there from [[UsefulNotes/Melbourne]].

* Darwin, the smallest capital city in Australia, with a population of around 121,000. [[TheWoobie Bombed by the Japanese during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974]]. [[IronWoobie It was rebuilt both times]].

* Snowtown, a small suburb north of Adelaide. It's notorious for a serial killer hiding his bodies in [[Series/BreakingBad barrels of acid]] in a bank vault.

* Port Lincoln, mostly only notable for having the largest natural harbour in the world, which is an export hub for the Eyre Peninsula region. Quite a pretty place, though the region is prone to bushfires. Also produced [[UsefulNotes/HorseRacing Makybe Diva]], one Australia's most famous racehorses, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome who won the Melbourne Cup three times in a row]]. Not to mention Tunarama, in which one of the main events is the hammer throw of a fake tuna (it used to be a real frozen tuna, but it started to be too expensive).

** And they throw great motor sports events (Pre 1995 Australian Grand Prix [F1], and the Adelaide 500 [V8 Supercars]. Melbourne received the rights to host the Grand Prix in 1995; Adelaideans are still a little bit bitter about that, although some other Adelaideans point out that the bitterness is misdirected due to the fact that the Adelaide city council didn't even bother trying to keep the Grand Prix in the first place because they [[SmugSnake were so sure Adelaide would be picked again when the contract was up.]]

'''New South Wales'''

'''Northern Territory'''

'''Victoria'''

'''South Australia'''

* Coober Pedy, ''the'' archetypical Australian mining town. A common tourist stop on the way to Alice Springs, it's literally surrounded by slag piles, mine shafts (watch your step!) and machinery, and has mining-related attractions including an underground hotel (with swimming pool). A large producer of Australian opal (the rainbow kind), they've even found a plesiosaur skeleton made of opal. Almost the entire town's population live underground to try to escape the extreme heat.

'''Western Australia'''

'''Queensland'''

* The Gold Coast has almost all the major theme parks in Australia: Dream World, Warner Bros Movie World, Sea World, and Wet n' Wild Water World. It used to have hot meter maids in golden bikinis, but instead it now has oldies and screaming brats. Its also the setting of ''Series/H2OJustAddWater''.

'''Australian Capital Territory'''

'''Tasmania'''

'''Other Islands'''

* Pretty much the main thing Canberra has going for it is its ''ridiculous'' number of universities concentrated within a tiny area - it's practically a ten minute drive between any two of the biggest three, the University of Canberra, the Australian Catholic University, and the Australian National University. The practical upshot is a fairly elevated sense of rivalry; on Facebook, flame wars between UC and ANU students are incredibly common on both universities' profiles, with [[HateDumb neither side proving that their "superior" education is paying off]]. [[note]]UC's HateDumb does have the slight edge in that, unlike ANU's, it doesn't sink so low as to [[KickTheDog claim that ANU students will have no future]].[[/note]] A common hobby for students who actually know better is to sit back and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny laugh]] as the mutual HateDumb makes both universities look like shit.

* Darwin, the smallest capital city in Australia, with a population of around 121,000. [[TheWoobie Bombed by the Japanese during WorldWarTwo and devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974]]. [[IronWoobie It was rebuilt both times]].

* Broome, a small town that's popular with tourists due to its winter weather, history and large numbers of crocs. It was also bombed by the Japanese in WorldWarII.

* Sydney, the big one, or so it likes to call itself. Home of the [[EiffelTowerEffect Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge]], [[HoYay gay people]], [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball the Sydney Swans]] and many, ''many'' [[RugbyLeague rugby teams]]. For more, see [[UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}} this page]].

* Norfolk Island, a.k.a. the Australian territory that demands passports for locals from the mainland and would tell the rest of us to sod off if they could. Oddly and totally unconnected to this is that it was founded by the [[Literature/MutinyOnTheBounty mutineers from the HMS Bounty]].

* Sale, a reasonably large and well-serviced city located virtually in the middle of nowhere. Its primary draw is its status as the home of the [[AussiesWithArtillery Royal Australian Air Force's]] primary training school, the former site of a major oil mining operation, [[MundaneMadeAwesome and a swing bridge that still operates]]. Also, it has a ridiculous number of lakes and wetland reserves.

* [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWorldHeritageSites The Blue Mountains]] is located on the route between {{Sydney}} and Bathurst. Contains {{Scenery Porn}} and {{Eiffel Tower Effect}} due to its landscape like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(Australia) Three Sisters]].

* Wittenoom, a small town in the middle of nowhere, famous (or infamous) for 3 things: a blue asbestos mine where almost all the workers caught asbestosis, a book about said mine called Blue Murder, and a song about said mine by MidnightOil called Blue Sky Mine.

* Adelaide, the city of churches. Every second block is a church as a result of the migration of people of a lot of faiths in the city's early history. Every other one is used as a dumping ground for the mob... the water is horrible (no thanks to the upstream states, QLD, VIC & NSW), but the women look fantastic. It's practically surrounded by the source of most of Australia's wine. [[note]]Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale,[[http://www.southaustralia.com/WineRegions.aspx just to name two of the biggest.]][[/note]]. It is also said to be the serial murder capital of the world, and why not? [[VictoryIsBoring Nothing much else happens there]].

* Newcastle, "the Capital of the Hunter (Valley)". Known for coal exports, Silverchair and Andrew Johns. Interestingly, many areas around Newcastle are named after towns/cities in the north-east of England. At least we've got no geordies!

* Sydney, the big one, or so it likes to call itself. Home of the [[EiffelTowerEffect Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge]], [[HoYay gay people]], [[AustralianRulesFootball the Sydney Swans]] and many, ''many'' [[RugbyLeague rugby teams]]. For more, see [[UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}} this page]].

* Melbourne, Sydney's arch-nemesis. Home of AustralianRulesFootball and where all the V8 cars get built. Note: it's pronounced Mel-bun or -burn, not Mel-born. It's considered the cultural capital of Australia, [[SelfDeprecation because Sydney has all the important landmarks]]. For more, see [[UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}} this page.]]

* Port Lincoln, mostly only notable for having the largest natural harbour in the world, which is an export hub for the Eyre Peninsula region. Quite a pretty place, though the region is prone to bushfires. Also produced [[HorseRacing Makybe Diva]], one Australia's most famous racehorses, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome who won the Melbourne Cup three times in a row]]. Not to mention Tunarama, in which one of the main events is the hammer throw of a fake tuna (it used to be a real frozen tuna, but it started to be too expensive).

* The Central Coast, a region consisting of a number of cities and suburbs between Sydney and Newcastle stretching along the coast; accordingly, it has a ''lot'' of beaches. It was officially counted as part of Sydney or Newcastle before 2005. Home of the pop punk group ShortStack.

* Caboolture. ...Er, KeithUrban comes from there. Which lead to a number of people thinking the Urban Country Music festival was named for him (it wasn't). One of the local schools is the only state-run school with an original classroom still in use as a classroom since its foundation 140 years ago.

* Bathurst is known nationwide (at least among racing fans) for the Bathurst 1000, a racing weekend which involves thousands of tourists descending upon the town to watch the V8s and drink beer.

* {{UsefulNotes/The Blue Mountains}} is located on the route between {{Sydney}} and Bathurst. Contains {{Scenery Porn}} and {{Eiffel Tower Effect}} due to its landscape like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(Australia) Three Sisters]].

* Ipswich, Brisbane's drunken, inbred sister... which is still better than Toowoomba.

* Snowtown, a small suburb north of Adelaide. It's notorious for a serial killer hiding his bodies in barrels of acid in a bank vault.

** Due to recent changes however, the city is now known more for its very high unemployment, alcoholism, meth addiction and its recently elected, flamboyant, paparazzo-turned-mayor.