{
  "id": 6066053,
  "title": "Is Sydney really Australia’s largest city?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/is-sydney-really-australias-largest-city",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-07T00:00:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/09/is-sydney-really-australias-largest-city/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "According to the official population projections from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Sydney’s population was 180,300 larger than Melbourne’s in 2024-25: Sydney is currently Australia’s biggest city because the official boundaries used to draw the city limits are arbitrary. The official definition of Greater Sydney stretches all the way to Lake Macquarie, about 120 The post Is Sydney…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}