The city is located in the southeastern part of Australia, on the shores of the bay. The oldest parts of the city are in the southern part of the bay, and the northern part was settled much later, because the mountainous terrain made it very difficult to build.
Sydney's population is made up of two hundred nationalities and many cultures. More than 4 million people live in and around the city.
Sydney was founded in 1788 as the first European settlement on the Australian continent, and was named after the minister of the British colonies. In the twentieth century, Sydney was the capital of New Wales (a Commonwealth state), the second country in the world to give women the right to vote.
