Kew
Kew is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, found 5 km east from Melbourne's Central Business District. Kew is located within the City of Boroondara local government area.Photo: WalkingMelbourne, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Suburb with 24,500 residents
- Description: suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Kew Primary School”, “Kew, Victoria”, and “Kew, Victoria, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boroondara General Cemetery and Xavier College.
Boroondara General Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5.
Boroondara General Cemetery, often referred to as Kew cemetery, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Victoria, Australia, created in the tradition of the Victorian garden cemetery.
Xavier College
School
Xavier College is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus, with its main campus located in Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Ruyton Girls’ School
School
Ruyton Girls' School, commonly referred to simply as Ruyton, is a non-denominational and independent day school for girls, located on Selbourne Road, Kew, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hawthorn East and Inner east.
Hawthorn East
Suburb
Hawthorn East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Hawthorn East is situated 3½ km southeast of Kew.
Inner east
Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.
The inner east of Melbourne consists of a number of suburbs and localities within the Yarra municipality. Compared with glitzy Stonnington on the other side of the river, the inner eastern area is known among Melburnians as a working-class district, filled with pubs and old factories.
Westgarth
Neighborhood
Photo: Batterbu, Public domain.
Westgarth is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Northcote, about 4 or 5 km north-east of Melbourne's central business district in Victoria, Australia. Westgarth is situated 4 km northwest of Kew.
Kew
- Categories: gazetted locality of Victoria and locality
- Location: City of Boroondara, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.80336° or 37° 48′ 12″ southLongitude
145.03333° or 145° 2′ eastPopulation
24,500Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)United Nations Location Code
AU WEKOpen location code
4RJ752WM+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 2141191909OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kew” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيو”
- Bulgarian: “Кю”
- Catalan: “Kew, Boroondara City”
- Catalan: “Kew, Melbourne”
- Cebuano: “Kew”
- Chinese: “基尤”
- Chinese: “基尤路口”
- Dutch: “Kew”
- Finnish: “Kew, Victoria, Australia”
- French: “Kew”
- German: “Kew”
- Irish: “Kew”
- Italian: “Kew”
- Japanese: “キュー”
- Japanese: “ビクトリア州”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kew”
- Norwegian: “Kew”
- Persian: “کیو، ویکتوریا”
- Portuguese: “Kew”
- Russian: “Кью”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kew, Bhictòria”
- Slovenian: “Kew”
- Spanish: “Kew (Victoria)”
- Spanish: “Kew”
- Swedish: “Kew, Victoria”
- Swedish: “Kew”
- Turkish: “Kew”
- Urdu: “کیو، وکٹوریہ”
- Vietnamese: “Kew”
- Welsh: “Kew”
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