Sydney

**Sydney**
	capital city of New South Wales, Australia
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Instance of	city; metropolis; big city; largest city (Australia); state capital (New South Wales); global city; financial centre;
Named after	Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney;
Location	New South Wales, AUS
Located in or next to body of water	Parramatta River;
Present in work	Civilization V (City-state);
Inception	26 January 1788 (Australia Day);
Significant event	2000 Summer Olympics (2000);
Population	4,840,600 (2014);
Area	12,144.6 km²;
Elevation above sea level	6 m;
Different from	Sydney ; Sydney;
Maximum temperature record	45.8 degree Celsius (2013);
Minimum temperature record	2.1 degree Celsius (1932);
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	33° 52′ 04″ S, 151° 12′ 36″ E
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English: Sydney in New South Wales is the largest city in Australia.

हिन्दी: सिडनी ऑस्ट्रेलिया और इसके न्यू साउथ वेल्स राज्य का सबसे बड़ा शहर है।

Sydney Harbour Bridge at night

Maps and aerial views[edit]

map of Sydney, 1789
Satellite view of Sydney metropolitan area
Aerial view of Sydney, 1932
Satellite image of Sydney, 1994.
Sydney city council areas
Sydney city parishes, 1857
Historic map of Sydney and Environs, 1929
Sydney aerial, 1932
Circular Quay and the Sydney city centre at night in 1938.
Sydney CBD aerial, 1939
Aerial view of Sydney, 2010
Sydney Harbour from the air
Sydney CBD from above
Satellite imagery of Sydney at night, partially obscured by clouds
Aerial view

Historic views[edit]

Landing of Lieutenant James Cook at Botany Bay, 29 April 1770
A Direct North General View of Sydney Cove, 1794 by Thomas Watling
Sydney in 1796.
Government House, Parramatta, 1805 by George William Evans
Sydney Cove, by John Lewin 1805
Supreme Court and St James Church, 1842
King Street, Sydney looking east, ca. 1843 by Frederick Garling
Morning at the `Heads' of Port Jackson or the Pilot's Look-out, 1850, G. E. Peacock
Sydney Market, 1854
Woolloomooloo Bay, 1855
The Sydney Stock Exchange building in 1872
International Exhibition, Garden Palace, 1879
Garden Palace fire, 1882
George Street, Sydney by Alfred Tischbauer, 1883.
Sydney, 1888
Fireman's funeral, George Street, 1894
Sydney Harbour from Milsons Point by Tom Roberts, 1897.
Pitt Street, near Spring Street from The Powerhouse Museum Collection, 1900
Mutual Life Assurance Office, 1900
General Post Office, 1899
Herald Office, 1900s
Cleansing operations in Sydney streets, quarantine area due to spread of bubonic plague, July 1900
Day Street after cleansing operations, July 1900
Panorama of the Town Hall and Queen Victoria Building, 1904
Trams on George Street, 1910s
Hyde Park, 1910s
King Street looking east, 1910s
Martin Place, 1920s
Bridge Street, 1920s
Construction, St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, 1920s by Sam Hood
Central Station, 1924
Culwulla Chambers, Sydney's first skyscraper, 1925
Coogee Pier, 1928
First train on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Building labourer on a stone being hoisted up to building, Pitt St, Sydney, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood
T&G Building, 1930
Hunter Street, 1939
Town Hall, 1940s
Tram at Darling Street Wharf, Rozelle, 1951
Sydney Opera House under construction
Sydney skyline, 1980
Sydney CBD, 1983
2000 Sydney Olympics

Geography[edit]

Sydney Harbour
Western Sydney aerial
Sydney as viewed from Tasman Sea, overlooking the sandstone cliffs in Vaucluse
View of Nepean River from just south of Penrith
Aerial view of Eastern Sydney
The Blue Mountains

Architecture[edit]

Sydney Opera House
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Australia Square
NSW Parliament House
Sydney Town Hall
Sandstone colonial, Pitt Street
Henry Davis York building
Martin Place
Museum of Contemporary Art
Sydney Observatory
Department of Lands
St. Andrew's Anglican Cathedral
The Sydney Tower
Fort Denison
Central Station
General Post Office
The Grace Building
Queen Victoria Building (QVB)
Leadlight windows, QVB
QVB interior
Interior of the 19th-century Strand Arcade
Banking House, Pitt Street
81 York Street
Beaux Arts building

Notable demolished buildings[edit]

Norwich Chambers, 1890
Grand Central Coffee Palace
Garden Palace, destroyed by fire
Hotel Australia
Commercial Traveller's Club, Martin Place
Anthony Hordern & Son's
The Colonial Mutual Association Building in Sydney, corner of George and Wynyard Streets, circa 1900s.
Henry Bull & Co. Building

Contemporary buildings[edit]

Dr Chau Chak Wing Building
Australia Square
MLC Centre
Sirius Apartment Building
Darling Square
UTS Tower
One Central Park, eastern tower
1 Bligh Street
One Sydney Harbour
International Towers
Crown Sydney (November 2020)
World Tower
Greenland Centre, Sydney's tallest residential building

Skylines[edit]

CBD[edit]

Earth Hour, before and after, 2011
Sydney at night, 2004
Central Business District from the air
Sydney CBD
Sydney CBD from above, 2013
Circular Quay
Skyline in Sydney CBD and Castlereagh Street, seen from John Maddison Tower (2017)
Sydney and Botanic Gardens
Sydney CBD
Sydney skyline at dawn from Olympic Park, 2007
Sydney CBD from Sydney Harbour, 2014
Sydney CBD in 2011
Sydney CBD, September 2015
Sydney skyline from the Manly ferry
Sydney skyline at night, 2015
Sydney CBD skyline from Farm Cove
Sydney CBD skyline sunset, October 2015
CBD Skyline from the Sydney Harbour Bridge

North Sydney[edit]

North Sydney high-rise district in 2020
North Sydney office towers at sunset
North Sydney seen from Bondi Junction
North Sydney at night (foreground) with the CBD skyline behind

Parramatta[edit]

Parramatta skyline, 2019

Liverpool[edit]

Liverpool skyline, 2022

Streets[edit]

George Street
Castlereagh Street
Bridge Street
York Street
Martin Place
Pitt Street

Transport[edit]

Defunct Sydney Monorail, 1980s
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Pyrmont Bridge
Sydney skyline from Sydney Airport
Aerial view of Sydney Airport
Sydney Metro
Sydney Metro train
Metro
Map of Sydney Metro lines
Light Horse Interchange
Opal card readers
Central Station
ANZAC Bridge
NSW TrainLink V Set at Central Station, 2019
Sydney Metro Opal card readers

Parks[edit]

Barangaroo Reserve
Entrance to the Royal Botanic Garden from Art Gallery Road
Victoria Park, University of Sydney
Wynyard Park
Hyde Park in the city centre
Royal Botanic Gardens
Chinese Garden of Friendship
Auburn Botanic Garden
Central Park, an urban renewal project featuring office towers and recreational park