Outline of Sydney

Flag of Sydney

Coat of arms of Sydney

Sydney skyline and sandstone cliffs as viewed from the Tasman Sea, overlooking Vaucluse and Dover Heights.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Sydney:

Sydney –

General reference

• Pronunciation: English: /ˈsɪdni/
• Common English name(s): Sydney
• Official English name(s): Sydney
• Adjectival(s): Sydneysider
• Demonym(s): Sydneysider

Geography of Sydney

Geography of Sydney

• Sydney is:
  • a city
  • a state capital
    • capital of New South Wales
• Population of Sydney: 5,029,768
• Area of Sydney: 12,367.7 km² (4,775.2 sq mi)
• Atlas of Sydney

Sydney
Sydney Location within Australia
Coordinates: 33°51′54″S 151°12′34″E

Location of Sydney

• Sydney is situated within the following regions:
  • Southern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere
    • Oceania
      • Australasia
        • Australia (continent)
          • Australia (outline)
            • New South Wales
• Time zone(s):
  • Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
  • In Summer (DST): Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11)

Environment of Sydney

Cronulla sand dunes

Bondi Beach

Bare Island

The Blue Mountains

Parramatta River

The Three Sisters, sandstone rock formations in the Blue Mountains

• Climate of Sydney

Natural geographic features of Sydney

• Bays in Sydney
  • Botany Bay
  • Cockle Bay
  • Farm Cove
  • Sydney Cove
• Beaches in Sydney
  • Bondi Beach
  • Bronte Beach
  • Lady Robinson Beach
  • Manly Beach
  • Northern Beaches
• Dunes in Sydney
  • Cronulla sand dunes
• Harbours in Sydney
  • Circular Quay
  • Darling Harbour
  • Port Jackson
    • Middle Harbour
• Headlands and cliffs in Sydney
  • Bradleys Head
  • The Gap
  • Sydney Heads
• Islands in Sydney
  • Bare Island
  • Clark Island
  • Cockatoo Island
  • Goat Island
  • Rodd Island
  • Scotland Island
  • Shark Island
  • Snapper Island
  • Spectacle Island
• Lakes in Sydney
  • Chipping Norton Lake
  • Lake Parramatta
• Mountains in Sydney
  • Blue Mountains
    • Blue Mountains National Park
• Rivers in Sydney
  • Cooks River
  • Georges River
  • Hawkesbury River
  • Nepean River
  • Parramatta River
• Geology
  • Sydney Basin
  • Sydney sandstone
  • Narrabeen group

Areas of Sydney

The Sydney central business district

City of Sydney

Regions of Sydney

Suburbs of Sydney

Districts of Sydney

• Sydney central business district
• North Sydney

Neighborhoods (localities) in Sydney

The Circular Quay

Darling Harbour

• Blues Point
• Central
• Chinatown
• Circular Quay
• Darling Harbour
• Kings Cross
• Thai Town
• The Rocks

Locations in Sydney

• Tourist attractions in Sydney
  • Museums in Sydney
  • Shopping areas and markets

Bridges in Sydney

Sydney Harbour Bridge at dusk

Bridges in Sydney

• Anzac Bridge
• Boothtown Aqueduct
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Gladesville Bridge
• Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge
• Pyrmont Bridge
• Spit Bridge
• Sydney Harbour Bridge

Cultural and exhibition centres in Sydney

The International Convention Centre

• International Convention Centre Sydney
• Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
• The Concourse

Forts of Sydney

• Fort Denison
  • Fort Denison Light
• Fort Philip

Fountains in Sydney

The Archibald Fountain

• Archibald Fountain
• El Alamein Fountain

Monuments and memorials in Sydney

• ANZAC War Memorial
• Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway
• Sydney Cenotaph

Museums and art galleries in Sydney

The Art Gallery of New South Wales

Museums in Sydney

• Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Australian Museum
  • James Cook Collection
• Australian National Maritime Museum
• Justice and Police Museum
• Madame Tussauds Sydney
• Manly Art Gallery and Museum
• Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
• Museum of Sydney
• Nicholson Museum
• Powerhouse Museum
• Sydney Tramway Museum

Parks and gardens in Sydney

Bicentennial Park

The Royal Botanic Garden

View across Queen's Square

Parks in Sydney

• Auburn Botanical Gardens
• Belmore Park
• Bicentennial Park
• Brenan Park
• Centennial Parklands
• Central Gardens Nature Reserve
• Chinese Garden of Friendship
• Hyde Park
• Luna Park Sydney
• Macquarie Place Park
• Moore Park
• Observatory Park
• Royal Botanic Garden
• Sydney Park
• Taronga Zoo
• The Domain
• Tumbalong Park
• Wild Life Sydney
• Wynyard Park

Public squares in Sydney

• Queen's Square
• Railway Square
• Whitlam Square

Religious buildings in Sydney

St Peter's Church in Campbelltown

• Christ Church St Laurence
• Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church
• St Andrew's Cathedral
• St James' Church
• St. Maron's Cathedral
• St Mary's Cathedral
• St Philip's Church

Secular buildings in Sydney

The Australia Square tower

The Government House

Lindesay house in Darling Point

Sydney Observatory

• 1 Bligh Street
• Admiralty House
• AMP Centre
• Australia Square
• AWA Tower
• Bellevue
• Bennelong Apartments
• Boronia House
• Carthona, Darling Point
• Cloncorrick
• Customs House
• Deutsche Bank Place
• General Post Office
• Government House
• Grace Building
• Hordern Pavilion
• Horizon Apartments
• Hyde Park Barracks
• International Towers Sydney
• Lindesay, Darling Point
• MLC Centre
• Parliament House
• Queen Victoria Building
• The Star
• Sydney Mint
• Sydney Observatory
• Sydney Town Hall
• Treasury Building, Sydney
• Victoria Barracks
• Vaucluse House
• Zenith Centre

Streets in Sydney

George Street

• Broadway
• Cumberland Highway
• George Street
• Elizabeth Street
• Great Western Highway
• Hume Highway
• Liverpool Street
• Macquarie Street
• Oxford Street
• Parramatta Road
• Pitt Street
• Sydney Orbital Network
• Victoria Road

Theatres in Sydney

Sydney Opera House

• Capitol Theatre
• Enmore Theatre
• Roslyn Packer Theatre
• State Theatre
• Sydney Opera House
• Theatre Royal
• Wharf Theatre

Towers in Sydney

• Sydney Tower

Demographics of Sydney

Demographics of Sydney

Government and politics of Sydney

Government and politics of Sydney

• Division of Sydney
• Mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney
• International relations of Sydney
  • San Francisco, California, United States (1968)

Law and order in Sydney

• Crime in Sydney
  • Sydney lockout laws

History of Sydney

History of Sydney

Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. The city was named in his honour in 1788

History of Sydney, by period or event

Timeline of Sydney

• Early history
• Sydney during the 18th and the 19th century
  • The crew of HMS Endeavour under the command of James Cook sights the east coast of Australia (1770)
  • The British colony of New South Wales is subsequently established with the arrival of the First Fleet under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip (1788)
  • The colony is named "Sydney", after the British Home Secretary, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1788)
  • Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars (1790–1816)
  • List of Governors of New South Wales
• Sydney during the 20th century
  • Sydney becomes the capital of the Australian state of New South Wales (1901)
  • Sydney during the World War II (1939–1945)
  • Post-war Sydney
  • Sydney in the new millennium

Culture of Sydney

The Business School building at the UTS, a Sydney architectural landmark

The State Library of New South Wales in the Neoclassical style

Culture of Sydney

Arts in Sydney

Architecture of Sydney

Architecture of Sydney

• Art Deco buildings in Sydney
• Heritage houses in Sydney
• Tallest buildings in Sydney

Cinema of Sydney

Cinema of Sydney

• Fox Studios Australia
• Sydney Film Festival

Literature of Sydney

Literature of Sydney

• Sydney Writers' Festival

Music and ballet of Sydney

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The Sydney Lyric theatre

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

The auditorium of Sydney Opera House

Music of Sydney

• Ballet of Sydney
  • Sydney Dance Company
• Music festivals and competitions in Sydney
  • Sydney International Piano Competition
• Music schools in Sydney
  • Sydney Conservatorium of Music
• Music venues in Sydney
  • Sydney Lyric
  • Sydney Opera House
  • City Recital Hall
• Musical ensembles in Sydney
  • Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
  • Australian Chamber Orchestra
  • Harbour City Opera
  • Opera Australia
    • Opera Australia Orchestra
  • St Mary's Cathedral Choir
  • Sydney Chamber Choir
  • Sydney Chamber Opera
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
  • Sydney Symphony Orchestra
  • Sydney University Symphony Orchestra
• Musicians from Sydney
  • Jonathan Mills
• Songs about Sydney

Theatre of Sydney

• Bell Shakespeare
• Sydney Theatre Company

Visual arts of Sydney

The Olympic statue on the Grand Parade in Brighton-Le-Sands

Nexus by Alex Kosmas, Sculpture by the Sea, 2008

• Sydney rock engravings

Public art in the City of Sydney

• Cloud Arch
• Forgotten Songs
• Halo

Events in Sydney

Sydney New Year's Eve

• Australian Fashion Week
• Australian International Motor Show
• Sculpture by the Sea
• Sydney New Year's Eve
• Sydney Royal Easter Show
• Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Festivals in Sydney

The Sydney skyline during Vivid Sydney lighting festival

• Biennale of Sydney
• Big Day Out
• Sydney Festival
• The Great Escape
• Vivid Sydney

Languages of Sydney

Languages of Sydney

• Australian English
• Dharug language

Media in Sydney

• Newspapers in Sydney
  • The Daily Telegraph
  • The Sydney Morning Herald
• Radio and television in Sydney
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation

People from Sydney

• Michael Mobbs

Religion in Sydney

St Mary's Cathedral

Religion in Sydney

• Catholicism in Sydney
  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
    • Catholic Bishops and Archbishops of Sydney
    • St Mary's Cathedral

Sports in Sydney

Sport in Sydney

• Basketball in Sydney
  • Sydney Kings
• Cricket in Sydney
  • New South Wales cricket team

Closing ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics at Stadium Australia

Stadium Australia

Sydney Cricket Ground, the Member's Pavilion

• Football in Sydney
  • Association football in Sydney
    • Sydney Derby (A-League)
      • Sydney FC
      • Western Sydney Wanderers FC
  • Rugby football in Sydney
    • New South Wales Waratahs
    • Shute Shield
• Olympics in Sydney
  • 2000 Summer Olympics
  • Venues of the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Sports competitions in Sydney
  • Sydney International
  • Sydney Marathon
• Sports venues in Sydney
  • Randwick Racecourse
  • Sydney Olympic Park
    • NSW Tennis Centre
    • Stadium Australia
    • State Sports Centre
    • Sydney Cricket Ground
    • Sydney Football Stadium
    • Sydney International Aquatic Centre
    • Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre
    • Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre
    • Sydney Showground Stadium
    • Sydney Super Dome
  • Royal Sydney Golf Club

Economy and infrastructure of Sydney

The InterContinental Hotel

SS South Steyne, a floating restaurant moored at Darling Harbour

The Harbourside Shopping Centre

Economy of Sydney

• Communications in Sydney
• Financial services in Sydney
  • Australian Securities Exchange
  • Reserve Bank of Australia
• Hotels in Sydney
  • Cremorne Point Manor
  • Crown Sydney
  • The Star
• Restaurants and cafés in Sydney
  • Quay
  • Tetsuya's
• Shopping malls and markets in Sydney
  • Broadway Shopping Centre
  • Chatswood Chase Sydney
  • Harbourside Shopping Centre
  • Paddy's Markets
  • Pitt Street Mall
  • Stockland Wetherill Park
  • The Galeries
  • The Strand Arcade
• Tourism in Sydney
  • BridgeClimb Sydney
  • Whale watching in Sydney
  • The Entertainment Quarter

Transportation in Sydney

Sydney Ferries' Sydney RiverCat Shane Gould operating an F3 service to Parramatta

Ansair 'Orana' bodied Scania L113CRL 3752 Pumpkin late night bus livery operating on route 370 to Coogee Beach

The Olympic Park railway station

Harbourside Monorail station

Public transport in Sydney

• Transport in Sydney in the 2010s
• Air transport in Sydney
  • Airports in Sydney
    • Rose Bay Water Airport
    • Second Sydney Airport
    • Sydney Airport
• Maritime transport in Sydney
  • Sydney Ferries
    • Manly ferry services
• Road transport in Sydney
  • Buses in Sydney
    • Metrobus
    • NightRide
    • Transit Systems Sydney
  • Cycling in Sydney
    • Bike paths in Sydney
      • Sydney Harbour Bridge cycleway
  • Trolleybuses in Sydney

Rail transport in Sydney

Rail transport in Sydney

• City Circle
• Light rail in Sydney
• Railways in Sydney
  • Proposed railways in Sydney
  • Railway stations in Sydney
    • Central railway station
    • International Airport railway station, Sydney
• Sydney Metro
  • M
    Sydney Metro Northwest
  • M2
    Sydney Metro City & Southwest
• Sydney Monorail
• Sydney Trains
  • Sydney Trains fleet
• Trams in Sydney

Education in Sydney

Atrium of the Charles Perkins Centre

Education in Sydney

• Universities in Sydney
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Sydney
  • University of Technology Sydney
• Research institutes in Sydney
  • Charles Perkins Centre
  • Westmead Institute for Medical Research

Healthcare in Sydney

The Prince of Wales Hospital

Healthcare in Sydney

• Hospitals in Sydney
  • Manly Hospital
  • Nepean Hospital
  • Prince of Wales Hospital
  • Royal North Shore Hospital
  • St Vincent's Hospital
  • Sydney Hospital

See also

• Outline of geography

External links

Wikimedia Atlas of Sydney