List of cities in Oceania by population
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This is a list of cities in Oceania (including Australia and Western New Guinea) with a population of over 80,000. National and territorial capitals are shown in bold type. Capitals of Australian states and territories are shown in italics.
| City | Country | Urban area |
Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney |  Australia |
5,361,466 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Melbourne | Australia |
5,096,298 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] | .jpg) |
| Brisbane | Australia |
2,568,927 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Perth | Australia |
2,099,530 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] | ,_Elizabeth_Quay_--_2019_--_0259.jpg) |
| Auckland |  New Zealand |
1,547,200 | Urban area provisional resident population, June 2025[2] |  |
| Adelaide | Australia |
1,469,163 | Significant Urban Area, June 2024[1] | .jpg) |
| Honolulu |  United States |
1,016,508 | Urban Honolulu Metropolitan Statistical Area, 2020 census[3] |  |
| Port Moresby |  Papua New Guinea |
756,754 | National census, June 2024[4] |  |
| Gold Coast | Australia |
718,772 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Newcastle–Maitland | Australia |
505,489 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Canberra–Queanbeyan | Australia |
462,984 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Christchurch | New Zealand |
407,800 | Urban area provisional resident population, June 2025[2] |  |
| Jayapura |  Indonesia |
398,478 | National census, 2020[5] |  |
| Sunshine Coast | Australia |
353,906 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] | .jpg) |
| Central Coast | Australia |
338,567 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] | .jpg) |
| Wollongong | Australia |
312,167 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] | .jpg) |
| Geelong | Australia |
287,704 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Sorong | Indonesia |
284,410 | National census, 2020[5] |  |
| Hobart | Australia |
218,386 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Wellington | New Zealand |
209,800 | Urban area provisional resident population, June 2025[2] | .jpg) |
| Lae | Papua New Guinea |
203,056 | National census, 2024[4] |  |
| Hamilton | New Zealand |
192,100 | Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2025[2] |  |
| Townsville | Australia |
184,271 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Tauranga | New Zealand |
160,900 | Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2025[2] |  |
| Cairns | Australia |
155,529 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] | .JPG) |
| Toowoomba | Australia |
140,303 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Darwin | Australia |
132,921 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Honiara |  Solomon Islands |
129,569 | National census, October 2019[6] |  |
| Papeʻete |  French Polynesia |
124,274 | Urban area. National census, December 2022[7] |  |
| Lower Hutt | New Zealand |
113,200 | Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2025[2] |  |
| Ballarat | Australia |
111,348 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Dunedin | New Zealand |
104,000 | Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2025[2] |  |
| Bendigo | Australia |
103,575 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Mandurah | Australia |
98,883 | Significant Urban Area, June 2023[1] | .jpg) |
| Albury–Wodonga | Australia |
97,274 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Suva |  Fiji |
94,088 | National census, December 2017[8] |  |
| Nasinu | Fiji |
92,046 | National census, December 2017[8] |  |
| Launceston | Australia |
88,884 | Significant Urban Area, June 2021[1] |  |
| Nouméa |  New Caledonia |
85,976 | National census, April 2025[9] |  |
| Palmerston North | New Zealand |
81,200 | Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2025[2] |  |
