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Sydney


Largest city in Australia, located in the southeastern part of the country, surrounding Port Jackson inlet on the Pacific Ocean; the capital and largest city of New South Wales state; Australia’s chief port and main cultural and industrial center.	1
‡ Sydney was founded in 1788 as Australia’s first settlement for convicts from Britain.	2
‡ It was the site of the 2000 summer Olympic Games.	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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