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How and why do they pick Adelaide? There are some (small) cities around Perth.

• ithkuil 9y ago
  I guess it should have been "nearest (capital) city"
• Nursie 9y ago
  Depends on your definition of "city". Is Geraldton or Bunbury a city? Not by European standards, though maybe by the US definition. To a Brit, those are towns, probably even small towns.
  • thothamon 9y ago
    In the US, we are loose about the term "city." The "city" I live in has a population of I 76,000. The neighboring town, Fort Collins, has a population of 164,000. But in 1990, my town, Loveland, only had 40,000 residents and I still would have called it a city. The term "big city" is more specific. That's a major city, probably with skyscrapers. Population is probably close to a million or more. The term "metropolis" is even more specific. That's a really big city, one of the top 20 in the US, to give a rough sense. Chicago, New York, Los Angeles are metropolises. Denver? It's a big city, but I don't know about metropolis.
    • Nursie 9y ago
      Geraldton, to the north of Perth, is about 40k, the biggest settlement in WA outside of Perth seems to be about 60k... The next town along from where I grew up in the UK is about 80k and is in no way a city...