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1. New South Wales was the first colony to be settled by the British in Australia.

2. It was established in 1788 with the arrival of the First Fleet of convicts, officers and marines from Great Britain.

3. It is Australia's most populous state.

4. The capital of New South Wales is Sydney, which is also the most populated city in Australia.

5. New South Wales gained its name when James Cook, who was the first European to chart the area, named the entire eastern coast of Australia New South Wales because the countryside bore a resemblance to parts of southern Wales.

6. New South Wales adopts daylight saving time during the summer months, but the far western city of Broken Hill runs on South Australian time.

7. NSW has the longest land border of any of Australia's states.

8. NSW entirely encompasses the Australian Capital Territory, which is Australia's federal territory, including the national capital city of Canberra.

9. NSW has an extensive inland river network, consisting of the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers, which flow to the Murray River, the state's southern border, and the westward flowing rivers of the Macquarie, Castlereagh, Bogan, etc, which meet the Darling River, which in turn also flows into the Murray.

10. The official emblems of New South Wales are the waratah (Floral emblem), platypus (Faunal mammal emblem) and kookaburra (Faunal avian emblem).

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