About City

Melbourne is the capital and most crowded city of the Australian condition of Victoria, and the second-most crowded city in Australia. The name "Melbourne" alludes to a urban agglomeration spreading over which includes the more extensive metropolitan region, and also being the regular name for its downtown area. The city is situated on the huge characteristic cove of Port Phillip and ventures into the hinterlands towards the Dandong and Macedon mountain ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a populace of 4,529,500 starting at 2015, and its occupants are called Melbournians.

Melbourne rates very in instruction, amusement, medicinal services, innovative work, tourism and game, making it the world's most liveable city for the 6th year in succession in 2016, as indicated by the Economist Intelligence Unit. It is a main money related focus in the Asia-Pacific area, and positions among the main 30 urban communities in the Global Financial Centers Index. Alluded to as Australia's "social capital", it is the origin of Australian impressionism, Australian guidelines football, the Australian film and broadcast businesses, and Australian contemporary move. It is perceived as an UNESCO City of Literature and a noteworthy place for road craftsmanship, music and theater. It is home to a significant number of Australia's biggest and most established social foundations, for example, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the National Gallery of Victoria, the State Library of Victoria and the UNESCO World Heritage-recorded Royal Exhibition Building. It was the host city of the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

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