Melbourne is one of Australia's most diverse cities - 33.2% of its residents in 2006 were born outside of Australia. The population density in the city comes to about 500 residents living per square kilometer. The total area the Melbourne occupies covers a total of 9,992.5 km2 (3,858.1 sq mi). The estimated total population of the Greater Melbourne Area in 2017 was standing at 4,850,740, as of the end of the month of June that year. Melbourne is the capital city of the state of Victoria, and is by far the largest city in the state in fact, around 75% of the population of Victoria lives in Melbourne.
This makes Melbourne the second largest city in Australia, behind Sydney. The results of the latest Australian census reported that the population of Melbourne in 2011 was 3,999,982 only just short of 4 million.