Australia has big cities Sydney and Melbourne. Why is the capital in the small city Canberra?

As we all know, Australia is a country that monopolizes a continent, but its area is actually not large. The area suitable for people to live in is even smaller. The east and west are basically places like desert forests, and the population living in coastal areas is more dense. There are only a handful of cities with a population of over 5 million and relatively good economic development. Among these cities, Mexico and Sydney are the leaders of these big cities in Australia. At first, it was true that Melbourne was the capital of Australia, but later, because of Sydney's opposition and in order to better develop a new city, Canberra was chosen.

At the beginning of Australia, Melbourne developed more rapidly, because there are gold mines in Melbourne, which attracted many overseas immigrants to Melbourne for gold, and also promoted the rapid development of the local economy. Australia also made Mexico the capital at that time.

But with the development of Sydney, as the largest port city in Australia, its economy is very developed. And it has one more advantage than Mexico, that is, Mexico is not conducive to Australia's development facing the northern hemisphere, and Sydney has no such shortcoming at all. Therefore, Sydney can't help but fight for the right to be the capital. Then Melbourne certainly doesn't want to. It's been the capital for a hundred years, and Sydney says no, so we definitely can't let it out. Therefore, people in Melbourne and Sydney also began to March and publicize. At first glance, the Australian government can't have peace anywhere, and in the end, it has no choice, which is cheaper than the last Canberra.

Although the Australian government seems to be trying to calm the competition between Melbourne and Sydney. But choosing Canberra as the capital also means developing this small town. After all, there are too few big cities in Australia compared with other countries. Once Canberra is declared as the capital, it will certainly be beneficial to the population settlement and economic growth.