Canberra
Canberra was built to be the capital city of Australia, taking up all of Australian Capital Territory in the southeast of New South Wales. A planned city with national monuments, museums, and galleries all built around large man-made lakes.Photo: Tim J Keegan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Popular Destinations
Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley and Woden
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Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley and Woden are three districts of Canberra just west and southwest of Acton and South Canberra.
Civic
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Canberra's downtown area, Civic is what is now Walter Burley Griffin's design for a Civic Centre.
North Canberra
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Memorials, military sites, and parks all characterise North Canberra, a district comprised of several neighbourhoods in the District of Canberra Central.
Destinations
Tuggeranong and Country ACT
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Country ACT is just a large rural area surrounding the urban areas of Canberra in all directions by the north, where the kookaburra's head hits the New South Wales border.
Acton
Acton is a small affluent suburb west of Civic and is Canberra's university district, mostly taken up by the Australian National University.South Canberra
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If it's your first time in Canberra and you're time limited to only exploring one part of Canberra, it has to be South Canberra.
Hall
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Have you ever wondered whether there were any settlements in the Australian Capital Territory before it was established?
Gungahlin
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Gungahlin is Canberra's northernmost district. Many travellers visit the district for the Gold Creek Village, a family-friendly "village", holding nearly all of Gungahlin's important tourist attractions.
Airport and East
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Canberra Airport is Australia's only inland international airport, just to the east of Canberra.
Belconnen
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Belconnen is a largely residential outer district of Canberra in the northern part of the Australian Capital Territory.
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Notable Places in the Area
National Library of Australia
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The National Library of Australia, formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth…
Parliament House
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Parliament House, also referred to as Capital Hill or simply Parliament, is the meeting place of the Parliament of Australia, the legislative body of Australia's federal level of government.
National Gallery of Australia
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The National Gallery of Australia, formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art.
Localities in the Area
Ainslie
Ainslie is a suburb of Canberra, Australia in the North Canberra district.Parliamentary Triangle
The National Triangle, which is referred to as the Parliamentary Triangle, is the ceremonial precinct of Canberra, containing some of Australia's most significant buildings.Cook
Cook is a suburb of the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.Canberra
- Type: City with 427,000 residents
- Description: capital of Australia
- Categories: capital city, big city, political city and locality
- Location: Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-35.2976° or 35° 17' 51" southLongitude
149.1013° or 149° 6' 5" eastPopulation
427,000Elevation
571 metres (1,873 feet)IATA airport code
CBRUnited Nations Location Code
AU CBROpen Location Code
4RPFP422+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 21674637OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2172517Wikidata ID
Q3114Canberra Satellite Map
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- Armenian: Կանբերրա
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- Latin: Camberra
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- Ligurian: Canberra
- Literary Chinese: 堪培拉
- Lithuanian: Kanbera
- Lombard: Canberra
- Luxembourgish: Canberra
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- Maithili: क्यानबरा
- Malagasy: Canberra
- Malay: Canberra
- Malayalam: കാൻബറ
- Maltese: Canberra
- Manipuri: ꯀꯦꯟꯕꯦꯔꯔꯥ
- Maori: Kānapera
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- Mazanderani: کانبرا
- Min Dong Chinese: Canberra
- Min Nan Chinese: Canberra
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- Moksha: Канберрэ
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- Moroccan Arabic: كانبيرا
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- Nepali: क्यानेबरा
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- Norwegian: Canberra
- Norwegian Bokmål: Canberra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Canberra
- Occitan (post 1500): Canberra
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Canberra
- Oriya: କାନବେରା
- Ossetian: Канберрæ
- Panjabi: ਕੈਨਬਰਾ
- Papiamento: Canberra
- Pennsylvania German: Canberra
- Persian: کانبرا
- Piemontese: Canberra
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Canberra
- Polish: Canberra
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- Russian: Канберра
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- Sanskrit: केनबरा
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- Santali: ᱠᱭᱟᱱᱵᱮᱨᱟ
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- Sardinian: Canberra
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- Serbo-Croatian: Canberra
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- Sicilian: Canberra
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- Sindhi: ڪينبرا
- Sinhala: කැන්බරා
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- Spanish: Camberra
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- Swedish: Canberra
- Swiss German: Canberra
- Tagalog: Canberra
- Tahitian: Canberra
- Tahitian: Kanapera
- Tajik: Канберра
- Talysh: Kanberra
- Tamil: கான்பரா
- Tamil: கேன்பெரா
- Tatar: Канберра
- Telugu: కాన్బెరా
- Tetum: Kamberra
- Thai: แคนเบอร์รา
- Tibetan: ཁན་པེ་ར།
- Tok Pisin: Kambra
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Kanipela
- Tosk Albanian: Canberra
- Turkish: Canberra
- Turkish: Kanberra
- Turkmen: Kanberra
- Twi: Canberra
- Udmurt: Канберра
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- Ukrainian: Канберра
- Upper Sorbian: Canberra
- Urdu: کینبرا
- Uzbek: Kanberra
- Venetian: Canberra
- Veps: Kanber
- Veps: Kanberr
- Vietnamese: Canberra
- Volapük: Canberra
- Waray (Philippines): Canberra
- Welsh: Canberra
- Western Armenian: Քանպերա
- Western Frisian: Canberra
- Western Frisian: Kanberra
- Western Panjabi: کینبرا
- Wu Chinese: 坎培拉
- Yakut: Канберра
- Yiddish: קאנבערא
- Yoruba: Canberra
- Yue Chinese: 坎培拉
- Zeeuws: Canberra
- Zhuang: Canberra
- Zhuang: Canberrah
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