Overview
Darwin city is a local government area of the Territory in the North side, including the capital’s central district of business, Darwin City, representing 80 % of its metropolitan residents.
The population of Darwin is equal to 148,000 as of 2021, distributed on an area of 3,164 km2. The city of Darwin hosts most of residents of the Northern Territory who are sparsely populated having different ancestries: Australian, English, Irish and Scottish. It is the smallest, wettest, and is one of the Australian capitals mostly located in the north side serving as the Top regional centre in the end.
After sixty-nine years, Darwin’s harbor was discovered after the first European settlement had been founded in Australia. Approaching the land, the captain and his lieutenant gave the name “Darwin” to the port in honour of their previous shipmate Charles Darwin
Palmers ton was the original name of Darwin which was established in 1869, though the port was always famous for the name Port Darwin. When the gold was explored at Pine Creek in 1871 , the town’s development had been running fast, then the still developing new settlement was regained the name Darwin in 1911.