Do you really know which is the capital city of Australia without googling it first? It is...

boopy · 26-30, M

Isn't it Fiji

Canberra.

The easy way to remember this is that HMAS Canberra was sunk during the Battle of Savo Island (scuttled after heavy damage). Canberra was one of only two large cruisers in the Australian Navy, HMAS Australia being the other.

The U.S. would later name one of its new Baltimore-class heavy cruisers after Canberra, the only ship in the U.S. Navy to have been named after a foreign capital.

poisonouscupcake · 22-25, F

i thought it was sydney mainly because i was never taught and knew that sydney was very large, i believed that until i took a geography class and we spent a substantial amount of time on australia and talked about why they set canberra as the capital

walabby · M

I do but then I do live here.. XD

NigelDoes · 56-60, M

Yes. Canberra.

Gingerbreadspice · F

I know this, it was a city I thought it wasn’t. Cranberry or something.

Holdontothefire · 26-30, M

I do not. I mean the only two places anyone cared to teach us are Melbourne and Sydney. I only picked up a few others from talking to people, and have literally never heard someone identify the capital.

idlethoughts · 56-60, M

it's not surprising many people think it's Sydney. Sydney is the oldest & currently most populous city.

It's much the same as many thinking New York City is the capital of New York state

Carissimi · F

I’ll say, Sydney, off the top of my head, but I’m wrong as I checked the comments. At least I’m honest. 😉

Mamapolo2016 · F

I do know, but only because I had an Australian penpal who cleared up that question for me.

DragonFruit · 61-69, M

I actually learned before I realized that it wasn’t like Sydney or Melbourne from a cultural standpoint.
Melbourne was the capital prior to Canberra being built.
Similar to the US, where the original capital was New York City until George Washington donated land for the present capital city of Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia).