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Melbourne
Capital city of Victoria, Australia
Also known as Melbourne, Victoria · Melbourne, Australia · Greater Melbourne · Melbourne, AUS · Naarm · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Country
- Australia(since 1901)
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- Australia(since 1901)
- Located in
- Population
- 5,350,705(June 30, 2024)
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Sources- 1.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/regional-population/latest-releaseRetrieved 2025-04-30
- , 5,031,195(June 30, 2022)
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Sources- 1.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/regional-population/2021-22#capital-citiesRetrieved 2023-09-21
- , 4,585,537(August 10, 2021)
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- +4 more
- 5,350,705(June 30, 2024)
- Area
- 9,993 km²
- Elevation
- 31 m
- Founded
- August 30, 1835
- Postal code
- 3000–3207
- Website
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
322 statements · 18% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Capital of
- Victoria(since 1901)
- Colony of Victoria(1851–1901)
- Port Phillip District(1836–1851)
- Australia(1901–1927) replaced by: Canberra
- Local dialing code
- 0370
- 0371
- 0372
- 0374
- 0376
- 0377
- 0378
- 0379
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- 0383
- 0385
- 0386
- 0390
- 0391
- 0392
- 0393
- 0394
- 0395
- 0396
- 0398
- 0399
- Official name
- Melbourne
- Member of
- Creative Cities Network(since 2008) subject has role: City of Literature
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- League of Historical Cities
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- C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
- Creative Cities Network(since 2008) subject has role: City of Literature
- Related category
- Category:Melbourne-related lists category contains: Wikimedia list article
- Demonym
- Melburnian grammatical number: singular
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- Melburnians grammatical number: plural
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- Melburniani applies to part: masculine plural
- Melburnian grammatical number: singular
- Social media followers
- 19,500(September 20, 2025) youtube channel id: UClWHSwTH77SzIvmzT6l6IBQ
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- 19,100(September 7, 2024) youtube channel id: UClWHSwTH77SzIvmzT6l6IBQ
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- 17,300(October 13, 2023) youtube channel id: UClWHSwTH77SzIvmzT6l6IBQ
- 446,539(October 13, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 223282435
- 19,500(September 20, 2025) youtube channel id: UClWHSwTH77SzIvmzT6l6IBQ
- Maximum temperature record
- 46.4°C(February 7, 2009)
- Minimum temperature record
- -2.8°C(July 21, 1869)
- Shares border with
- Barwon South West direction relative to location: southwest
- Grampians direction relative to location: northwest
- Loddon Mallee direction relative to location: north
- Hume direction relative to location: northeast
- Gippsland direction relative to location: east
- Native label
- Melbourne pronunciation audio: En-au-Melbourne.oga · ipa transcription: ˈmɛlbən
- Present in work
- Civilization V subject has role: City-state
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- City of Melbourne
- City of Port Phillip
- City of Stonnington
- City of Yarra
- City of Banyule
- City of Bayside
- City of Boroondara
- City of Darebin
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- City of Glen Eira
- City of Hobsons Bay
- City of Kingston
- City of Manningham
- City of Maribyrnong
- City of Monash
- City of Moonee Valley
- City of Merri-bek
- City of Whitehorse
- City of Brimbank
- Shire of Cardinia
- City of Casey
- City of Frankston
- City of Greater Dandenong
- City of Hume
- City of Knox
- City of Maroondah
- City of Melton
- Shire of Mornington Peninsula
- Shire of Nillumbik
- City of Whittlesea
- City of Wyndham
- Yarra Ranges Shire
- IPA transcription
- ˈmɛlbən language: Australian English
- Geoshape
- Data:Greater Melbourne.map
- Male population
- 2,420,718(August 10, 2021)
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- 2,420,718(August 10, 2021)
- Female population
- 2,497,033(August 10, 2021)
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- 2,497,033(August 10, 2021)
- Nickname
- Melbs
- the Garden City
On other databases
171 identifiers linking Melbourne across the web's reference databases
- AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID4112
- AllTrails trail IDaustralia/victoria/melbourne
- Alvin IDalvin-place:5049
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID6581
- ArchINFORM location ID56
- Armeniapedia ID4125
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinemelburnas
- Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID205
- Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID2011
- Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID2GMEL
- Australian Statistical Geography 2021 IDUCL201001
- Australian War Memorial IDPL489
- BabelNet ID00054239n
- Baidu Tieba name墨尔本
- BBC News topic IDcl866ry97n2t
- BBC Things ID1b4faf5c-8568-4788-8006-fab07ea2eca3
- BHCL UUID4dd03607-327d-430a-8980-c89349a000b0
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11953198f
- BIBSYS ID7012497
- Bing entity ID8b583bb3-5207-934d-55d1-8ab5089fd70e
- Britannica Kids kids level article ID444133
- Britannica Kids scholars level article ID108743
- Britannica Kids students level article ID275777
- British Museum place IDx45837
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDmelbourne-20
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID10155a
- CERL Thesaurus IDcnl00029549
- CNA topic IDmelbourne
- Comic Vine ID4020-57778
- Curlie IDRegional/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Regions/Greater_Melbourne/
- Data Commons IDwikidataId/Q3141
- Database of Canada's Early Women Writers IDplace/1136
- De Agostini IDMelbourne
- Dewey Decimal Classification2--9451
- Edition humboldt digital IDH0017434
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID151218
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Melbourne-Queensland
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDmelbourne
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)L2QiA
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)548636
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID65547
- EU Knowledge Graph item IDQ2601288
- Facebook location ID116190411724975
- Facebook usernamevisitmelbourne
- FactGrid item IDQ88630
- Famous Birthdays IDcity/melbourne-australia
- Fandom article IDaustralia:Melbourne
- Fandom wiki IDmelbourne
- FAST ID1204736
- Freebase ID/m/0chgzm
- GayCities IDmelbourne
- GeoNames ID2158177
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7001933
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3035-1766
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/Melbourne
- GitHub topicmelbourne
- GND ID4038526-7
- GNS Unique Feature ID-1586844
- Golden ID (archived)Melbourne
- Google Arts & Culture entity IDm0chgzm
- Google Maps Customer ID289451337132592528
- Google News topics IDCAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSkwyMHZNR05vWjNwdEVnVmxiaTFIUWlnQVAB
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDmelbourne-1
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0041785
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDMelbourne_-_i_Australia
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDmel-burn-31fe14
- Grove Art Online IDT056625
- Gyldendals Teaterleksikon IDMelbourne
- Gynopedia IDMelbourne
- Harper's tagmelbourne
- Hiking Project area ID8011199
- Hikr waypoint ID74424
- House Divided ID22683
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID39988
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2091530
- IdRef ID067409687
- IMDb keywordmelbourne-australia
- INaturalist place ID7858
- Instagram location ID213069300
- Instagram usernamevisitmelbourne
- Interlingual Index IDi83253
- International Jewish Cemetery Project IDaustralia/victoria/melbourne
- J9U entity ID987007559670505171
- Japan Search name IDメルボルン
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID10599
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)12701
- Klexikon article IDMelbourne
- Larousse IDville/wd/126656
- Lemmy community IDmelbourne@aussie.zone
- Lex IDMelbourne