List of cities in Oceania by population

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This is a list of cities in Oceania (including Australia) with a population of over 80,000. National and territorial capitals are shown in bold type.

City Country Urban area
 Notes Image
Sydney  Australia 5,361,466 Estimated resident population,
June 2021[1]
Melbourne  Australia 5,096,298 Estimated resident population, June 2021[1]
Brisbane  Australia 2,568,927 Estimated resident population, June 2021[1]
Perth  Australia 2,099,530 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Auckland  New Zealand 1,797,300 Urban area provisional resident population, June 2024[2]
Adelaide  Australia 1,469,163 Significant Urban Area, June 2024[1]
Honolulu  United States 1,016,508 Urban Honolulu Metropolitan Statistical Area, 2020 estimate[3]
Gold Coast  Australia 718,772 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Newcastle–Maitland  Australia 505,489 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Christchurch  New Zealand 470,814 Functional urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, February 2021[4]
Canberra–Queanbeyan  Australia 462,984 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Wellington–Hutt Valley–Porirua  New Zealand 432,600 Metropolitan area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2024[2]
Jayapura  Indonesia 414,862 National census 2020[5]
Port Moresby  Papua New Guinea 364,145 National census 2011
Sunshine Coast  Australia 353,906 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Central Coast  Australia 338,567 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Wollongong  Australia 312,167 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Geelong  Australia 287,704 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Sorong  Indonesia 284,410 National census 2020[5]
Hobart  Australia 218,386 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Townsville  Australia 184,271 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Nouméa  New Caledonia 179,509 Metropolitan area. National census, August 2014[6]
Hamilton  New Zealand 178,500 Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2024[2]
Cairns  Australia 155,529 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Tauranga  New Zealand 155,200 Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2024[2]
Toowoomba  Australia 140,303 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Papeete  French Polynesia 136,771 Urban area. National census, August 2017[7]
Dunedin  New Zealand 133,300 Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2024[2]
Darwin  Australia 132,921 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Ballarat  Australia 111,348 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Bendigo  Australia 103,575 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Lae  Papua New Guinea 100,677 National census 2011
Mandurah  Australia 98,883 Significant Urban Area, June 2023[1] Mandurah Foreshore (3142447037)
Albury–Wodonga  Australia 97,274 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Palmerston North  New Zealand 90,500 Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2024[2]
Launceston  Australia 88,884 Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1]
Suva  Fiji 87,000 National census 2019
Honiara  Solomon Islands 84,520 National census 2017

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Statistics. "Population estimates by LGA, Significant Urban Area, Remoteness Area and electoral division, 2001 to 2021". abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Aotearoa Data Explorer". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  3. ↑ "2020 Population and Housing State Data". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. August 12, 2021. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Functional urban areas – methodology and classification | Stats NZ". www.stats.govt.nz. Retrieved 2025-10-07.
  5. 1 2 "Indonesia: Administrative Division (Provinces, Regencies and Cities) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2025-01-27.
  6. ↑ "Recensement de la population 2014 - Populations légales 2014". ISEE. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Populations légales de Polynésie française en 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
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