Sydney

Sydney, capital city of the state of New South Wales in Australia, and Australia's largest and oldest city. It has a population of approximately 4 million (check figure?), and was founded as a convict settlement in 1788. (See [First Fleet]?).

Sydney hosted the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.

The city's most famous landmarks are the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the Sydney Opera House.

Sydney has 6 universities: the University of Sydney, the [University of New South Wales]?, Macquarie University, the [University of Technology, Sydney]?, the [University of Western Sydney]?, and (one of the campuses of) the [Australian Catholic University]?.

Sydney also has an interesting subway system. (Melbourne is the only other city in Australia with one, but Sydney's is older and much more interesting.)

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