Sydney has local music and theater groups, including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Theater Company and Sydney Dance Company.

Annual cultural events include the Archibald Prize, a competition hosted by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Sydney Festival, a celebration of music, theater and visual arts held in January.

The Sydney Opera House has five theaters with the ability to host a range of performance formats.

For seven months in 2006, the Sydney Opera House was home to the world's third busiest theater company, the Australian Opera Company.

Other venues include Sydney Town Hall, City Auditorium, Theater NSW and Quay Theatre.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra performs at the Sydney Opera House.

The Sydney Butoh Company was also highly regarded in the late 20th century under the leadership of choreographer Graeme Murphy.

Sydney has many museums, the largest of which are the Australian Museum (mainly natural history and anthropology), the Power House Museum (science, technology and design), and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Art Gallery of New South Wales).

South Wales), the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (Museum of Contemporary Art), the Australian National Maritime Museum, and some smaller museums, such as the Museum of Sydney (MoS, Local History).

There are also many natural spaces within the urban area.

Located in the city center are the China Friendship Garden, Hyde Park and the Royal Botanic Gardens.

There are also several national parks in the Greater Sydney area, including the Royal National Park, the second established national park in the world (the first being Yellowstone National Park in the United States), covering an area of ??132 square kilometers.

The University of Sydney has been in business since 1850 and is the oldest university in Australia. Sydney is home to many famous Australian universities, including the University of Sydney, Australia's first university founded in 1850.

There are five other public universities in Australia that mainly operate in Sydney: University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, University of Technology Sydney, Western Sydney University and Australian Catholic University (6 campuses, 2 in Sydney).

The University of Notre Dame Australia and the University of Wollongong have opened affiliated campuses in Sydney.

There are four cross-campus public technical and further education colleges in Sydney that provide vocational training at the third level: Sydney Technical College, North Sydney Technical and Further Education College, Western Sydney Technical and Further Education College and South Western Sydney Technical and Further Education College.

There are public schools, church schools and private schools in Sydney.

Public schools, including kindergarten (kindergarten), primary school and secondary school.

Special education is governed by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training.

It is reported that there are 4 state-administered education districts, coordinating 919 schools.

Selective schools are upper secondary schools that admit students based on certain criteria, usually academic tests.

Urban planning layout and scale The large area covered by the Sydney urban area was once divided into more than 300 areas (for postal purposes) and is now governed by approximately 38 independent local government areas (the New South Wales state government and its agencies)

There are also a large number of functions).

Today's Sydney is a small city, covering only the Sydney Central Business District and adjacent inner-city areas.

In addition, Sydney has many informal subdivisions for urban areas.

However, it is worth noting that there are many urban areas in Sydney that are not included in the following informal areas: Eastern City, Mountains, Inner West, Lower North Shore, Northern Beaches, North Shore, South Sydney, South East Sydney, South West Sydney and Western Sydney

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Sydney's central business district extends about 2 kilometers (1.25 miles) south from Sydney Cove, the first European settlement.

It is lined with skyscrapers, historic sandstone buildings such as Sydney Town Hall and the Queen Victoria Building, and is dotted with parks such as Wynyard Park and Hyde Park.

The CBD is bordered to the east by a series of parklands - Hyde Park, Domain Park, the Royal Botanic Gardens and Farm Bay on Sydney Harbour.

The central business district is adjacent to the tourist destination Darling Harbor to the west.

Central Station is the end of the Central Business District.

George Street is the north-south thoroughfare of Sydney's central business district.

In the southern part of the central business district, the streets are slightly grid-like and orderly; on the contrary, in the northern part of the older central business district, the streets are more chaotic, which reflects the special development of Sydney's early bullock trails.

Sydney's streets are more narrow than other Australian cities, which also reflects the characteristics of Australia's oldest city.

Although the Sydney CBD was the commercial and cultural backbone of Sydney in its early days, other commercial/cultural districts have continued to develop outwards since the Second World War.

As a result, after the end of World War II, the proportion of white-collar jobs in the central business district fell from more than 60% to less than 30% in 2004.

Sydney's five most important outer ring business districts include Hersheyville in the south, Parramatta in the central west, Blacktown in the west, Liverpool in the southwest, and Chatswood in the north.

and North Sydney, located north of Sydney Harbour.

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