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Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales, Australia and its most populous city. It is located on the east coast of Australia and surrounded by one of the world's largest natural harbors. Sydney has a very multicultural population, with over 100 different ethnicities represented. Some notable landmarks include the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. Famous Sydney residents include actors Hugh Jackman, Rose Byrne, and Rebel Wilson.
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- 1. SYDNEY English-speaking cities CPI Tino Grandío 2015 María Rosario López Fernández - 3º ESO 1
- 2. Location ➔ Sydney 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 one of the world's largest natural harbours, and sprawls towards the Blue Mountains to the west. ➔ Residents are together known as "Sydneysiders" and constitute the most multicultural city in Australia and one of the most multicultural cities in the world.
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- 4. Location Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the facility formally opened on 20 October 1973 after a gestation beginning with Utzon's 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition Though its name suggests a single venue, the project comprises multiple performance venues which together are among the busiest performing arts centres in the world
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- 7. Australia • Continent: Australia • Size: 7,692,024 km2 • Population 23,825,200 habitants • (Density 2.8/km2) • Language:English • Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy • •
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- 9. Population ➔ Sydney is the largest city in Australia and, as host to the Olympic Games in 2000, is probably the country's most well known city. Although not the capital of Australia, it is the capital of New South Wales. ➔ The results of the 2011 census, released in June 2012, showed that that the official population of Sydney was 4,391,674. In the five years since the last census, in 2006, it has grown by 6.6 percent.
- 10. Population → Australia's population in 2012 is just under 22 million so, to put this into some perspective, it might help to think that one in every five Australians lives in Sydney. → Sydney is growing quickly - so quickly in fact that it might have as many as 7 million residents by 2060
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- 12. Races → The principal ancestries of Greater Sydney's residents (as surveyed in 2011) 20.4% Australian 20.4% English 6.6% Irish 6.5% Chinese 5.0% Scottish
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- 14. Religions ➔ North Sydney Council area's religion statistics provide an indicator of cultural identity and ethnicity when observed in conjunction with other key variables. Religion data reveal the major concentrations of religions as well as revealing the proportion of people with no religious affiliation.
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- 18. Museums ➔ Sydney has an excellent collection of museums. Most are open daily from 9 or 10 till 4pm or 5pm. Some open later and some of the smaller Sydney Museums are closed on Mondays and is a good idea to phone to check. Not all the Sydney museums we list are in the city centre. ➔
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- 23. Celebrities 23 Rose Byrne: Actress, Rose Byrne was born in Balmain, Sydney, Australia. She is the daughter of Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired statistician and market researcher. She landed her first role in a movie, Dallas Doll, when she was 15 years old. Since then, Rose has appeared in a variety of Australian televisions shows including Rebel Wilson: Actress, Rebel Wilson was born in Sydney, Australia. She trained at the Australian Theatre for Young People and at Second City in the US. After a successful stage and television career in Australia, this writer/actress/producer now focuses on feature film projects in the United States and is perhaps most known for her breakthrough roles in the films Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect. Yvonne Strahovski: Actress, Yvonne was born and raised in Australia. Her parents were Polish immigrants. She attended the Santa Sabina College for her high school education. She then went on to study Performance at the University of Western Sydney's School of Contemporary Arts, graduating in 2003. Shortly afterwards, she landed her first role on television in an episode of Fear Factory...
- 24. Celebrities Hugh Jackman Phoebe TonkinActress, Phoebe Jane Elizabeth Tonkin was born in Sydney, Australia. Tonkin is an actress and model, starring on TV shows like "H2O: Just Add Water" (2006) where she played the character Cleo Sertori, Faye Chamberlain on The Secret Circle, and Fiona Maxwell in Tomorrow, When the War Began. She has also made appearances on shows like Packed to the Rafters as Lexi... Toni ColletteActress, Toni Collette is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actress, best known for her roles in El sexto sentido and Pequeña Miss Sunshine. She was born on November 1, 1972, in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is the first of three children born to Bob Collette, a truck driver, and Judy Collette... Sharni Vinson: Actress, Sharni Vinson was born in Sydney, Australia and grew up on Cronulla Beach. She began singing, dancing and acting at a young age, as a third generation performer in her family. At the age of 12, she enrolled as a student in the Brent Street School of Performing Arts where she trained for the next 10 years...
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