Sydney
About Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and is the most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 kilometres (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 kilometres (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2025 was 5,638,830, which is about 66% of the state's population. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City.
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Sydney has been named the world's best city eight consecutive times by Condé Nast Traveller.
from No Such Thing As Spanish Toes, 2024-12-05 at 00:30:02 · read transcript
Other times Sydney came up
As we are, living evidence of, of course. So what about food waste? That's a big problem, isn't it? Yep, yeah. In Australia, you discard 3.1 million tons of food every year. that includes 5 million bananas, which if laid end to end would go from Sydney to Melbourne. Okay. Shame on you. Is that a better use for them, do you think? It would be quite funny, but anyone walking and slipping all the way.
No Such Thing As A Glof Club, 2025-01-30 · listen
We've lost a lot of apples. That is amazing. Yeah. Yeah, every single Granny Smith is genetically identical to one that was in a house in Sydney centuries ago. Every single Bramley apple grew from a tree in a garden in Nottinghamshire. The Bramley apple tree has one fan club and its fan club is based in Japan. It's the one Bramley apple fan club in the world.
169: No Such Thing As Constantly Awake Beauty, 2017-06-16 · listen
As we are, living evidence of, of course. OK, so what about food waste? That's a big problem, isn't it? Yeah. In Australia, you discard 3.1 million tonnes of food every year that includes five million bananas, which if laid end to end would go from Sydney to Melbourne. OK. Is that a better use for them, do you think? It would be quite funny, but anyone walking and slipping all the way.
568: No Such Thing As A Glof Club, 2025-01-30 · listen
Although there were so many good suggestions, actually, for the name of Canberra. I think my favourites are things like Buncom and Bung Town are there and gone broke. There was one suggestion was Climax. Could have been called Climax. The one that comes up a lot is the name Sid Melad Per Briseho, which is obviously a hyphenated combination of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Hobart. They thought they'd combine them all. That's such an interesting idea. Very diplomatic.
No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 · listen
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