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Wollongong

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Country: Australia

Population:260,918

Time Zone:UTC+12

Wollongong’s urban population was estimated at 302,739 in June 2018, making it New South Wales’s third-largest city after Sydney and Newcastle, and Australia’s tenth-largest by population. In the Illawarra region, it stretches along a narrow coastal strip between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, 85 kilometres south of Sydney. Tania Brown has served as the city’s Lord Mayor since her election in 2024.