GREATER SYDNEY
Sydney has a compact city centre surrounded by large number of suburbs to form a large diverse metropolitian area of Greater Sydney.
Sydney is a large city which covers a large land area. Suburbs in Sydney are spread across 70 to 80km.
- Eastern Suburbs
East of Sydney CBD and the south-east of CBD, suburbs between the city and the sea are known as Eastern Suburbs.
Eastern suburbs is filled with plenty of beautiful beaches, including world famous Bondi Beach.
Beaches of Eastern Suburbs attracts large number of local and visitors during summer and surfers round the year.
- Southern Sydney
The area and the suburbs south of the CBD and north of the Georges River is known as Southern Suburbs.
Some of the area includes St George District and surrounding suburbs near Sydney Airport.
- Sutherland Shire
The southern end of Sydney, area, district and suburbs south of Georges Rivers including Cronulla and historical landing place of Captain Cooks, Kurnell south of Botany Bay.
- Inner West
Area west of Sydney CBD, known as Sydney's original suburbs and hub of cheap eats and shopping. Which also includes Sydney Olympic Park, the venue of Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
- Lower North Shore
Area just north of the world famous Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Harbour, the CBD of the north like North Sydney, Chatswood and parks and gardens and Sydney's famous Taronga Zoo.
- Upper North Shore
The Upper North Shore usually refers to the suburbs north of Chatswood between Roseville and Berowra. Leafy suburbs like Pymble, Gordon, Wahroonga and Hornsby are some of the suburbs of Upper North Shore.
- Northern Beaches
The area north east of Sydney Harbour which includes all the suburbs from Manly and north right to up the Palm Beach.
- North West
Area and suburbs north-west of Sydney CBD, north from western end of Sydney Harbour including suburbs like Macquarie Park, Macquarie University and the Hills District.
- Parramatta
Parrmatta also known as the second CBD, associated with history of Sydney, government departments, CBD of the west, shopping hub of the west and just 30 minutes by train from Sydney CBD.
- South West
Area and suburbs south-west of Sydney CBD, centres like Liverpool and Campbelltown which has both residential and commercial area.
- Outer West
Area and suburbs west of Parramatta to the foothills of Blue Mountains, Penrith is the main regional hub for business and shopping of outer west.
