Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia, with a residential population of 1.3 million (June 2014).
Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to... read more about Adelaide