The Greek community of Melbourne is one of the largest Greek diaspora communities in the world and Melbourne is one of the cities with the largest Greek-speaking population outside of Greece. According to the 2016 Australian census, Melbourne has the largest Greek Australian population in Australia (173,598), although some estimates put the number as high as 400,000. It is the largest Greek population of any city in the world outside of Greece and Cyprus. Economic bilateral relations between Australia and Greece are worth over A$140 million.
Melbourne is also a sister city to Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city.
History
Greek immigration to the state of Victoria began in the 1850s with the gold rush.
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