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Australian place names often follow a slightly dysfunctional pattern IMHO; X Victoria, or Y New South Wales will 9 times out of 10 mean X is a suburb of Melbourne or Y is a suburb of Sydney. The same (albeit slightly weaker) pattern applies to Brisbane/Queensland, Perth/Western Australia, and Adelaide/South Australia. In my humble opinion they botched this, and they should have designed the system so that Coburg, Melbourne, Australia is the canonical form instead because it is much more informative (Coburg is a classic inner city suburb, a quick tram ride from the Melbourne CBD). The underlying reason for this is that the Australian population is usually clustered around the five largest cities in general, and the two largest cities in particular.



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