How much do you really know about the City of Melbourne? Here are ten fun facts.
1. Melbourne has the highest number of cafes and restaurants per number of people than any other city in the world.
2. On average, Melbourne imports 30 tonnes of coffee beans each day, enough to make 3 million cups daily.
3. Melbourne has a growing population of 4.6 million people, projected to overtake Sydney as Australia's biggest city by 2030.
4. For at least 40,000 years before the arrival of the British, the area around Port Phillip Bay was the home of the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Wathaurong clans known as the Kulin people.
5. Maelbourne is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. 58% of the population have at least one parent born overseas.
6. Melbourne's iconic bathing boxes are some of the most expensive real estate in Australia. In 2016, one sold for over $300,000.
7. Melbourne was one of the largest and richest cities in the world during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s.
8. Melbourne's Chinatown is the longest continuous Chinese settlement in the western world founded by Chinese prospectors in 1851.
9. Birrarung Marr's name comes from the Wurundjeri and Boonerwrung peoples. 'Birrarung ' means 'river of mist', 'Marr' means 'the side of the river'
10. Melbourne's tramway system is the largest outside Europe and the fourth largest in the world.
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Talking to your local roaster can make a difference. Source: Unsplash / Mike Kenneally
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Tanderrum 2016. The Five Nations of the Kulin sustaining and reviving their culture as they welcome people in for the Melbourne Festival. Source: James Henry Illbijerri Theatre
Wa Australia kutoka jamii zatamaduni tofauti, washiriki katika tamasha ya siku kuu ya Australia Source: AAP
Screenshot of bathing boxes Source: Melbourne Day Youtube video
Victorian Gold Rush Source: Melbourne Day You Tube Video
Melbourne's Chinatown Source: Pixabay
Birrarung Marr Heritage Walk Source: Melbourne Day You Tube video
A supplied image obtained Monday, March. 2, 2015 of Yarra Trams' new E-Class in Melbourne. (AAP Image/ Yarra Trams) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY Source: AAP Image/ Yarra Trams
Melburnians celebrate the founding of their city
August 30th marks the anniversary of the founding of the city of Melbourne in 1835.
This year, Melburnians will celebrate with an official Flag Raising Ceremony that will acknowledge our traditional landowners and Melbourne’s anniversary as a city with Lord Mayor Sally Capp and the 2018 Junior Lord Mayor winner, officially raising the Melbourne Flag at Enterprize Park (Yarra’s north bank, cnr William and Flinders streets).
