Footscray

Footscray is an inner-city suburb in , Victoria, Australia, 5 km west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the local government area and its council seat.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Suburb with 17,100 residents
  • Description: suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Also known as: “Footscray, Victoria” and “Footscray, Victoria, Australia”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Footscray High School and Footscray railway station.

School
is a multi-campus secondary school in , Australia. It consists of two junior, years 7-9, campuses and a newly renovated senior, years 10-12 campus.

Railway station
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Footscray station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne and V/Line on the metropolitan Sunbury, Werribee and Williamstown lines and the regional Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong lines, part of the Melbourne and Victorian rail networks.

Railway station
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Middle Footscray station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Sunbury line, part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the western suburb of Footscray, in , Victoria, Australia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Docklands and Inner north.

Suburb
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is an inner-city suburb of , the capital of Victoria, , located directly to the western end of the between the neighboring suburbs of to the north/northwest, and , and to the south/southwest. is situated 4½ km southeast of Footscray.

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Melbourne's is a vibrant and diverse area, home to a number of cultural and social icons of . It is famed for the popular Lygon Street Italian district, while next door lies the University of Melbourne, the best university in Australia by many rankings.

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The central business district of is the city's cultural, entertainment and financial heart. Locally called the , or simply "the City", it is where most international and interstate visitors spend the bulk of their time.

Footscray

Latitude
-37.79813° or 37° 47′ 53″ south
Longitude
144.89735° or 144° 53′ 50″ east
Population
17,100
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
United Nations Location Code
AU FCY
Open location code
4RJ66V2W+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2142287856
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2166370
Wiki­data ID
Q5466574
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Urdu—“Footscray” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Футскрей”
  • Cebuano: “Footscray”
  • Dutch: “Footscray”
  • French: “Footscray”
  • German: “Footscray”
  • Hebrew: “פוטסקריי, ויקטוריה”
  • Hebrew: “פוטסקריי”
  • Irish: “Footscray”
  • Malagasy: “Footscray”
  • Persian: “فوت‌اسکری، ویکتوریا”
  • Persian: “فوت‌اسکری”
  • Polish: “Footscray”
  • Russian: “Футскрей”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Footscray, Bhictòria”
  • Silesian: “Footscray”
  • Spanish: “Footscray (Victoria)”
  • Spanish: “Footscray”
  • Swedish: “Footscray”
  • Turkish: “Footscray”
  • Urdu: “فوٹسکرے، وکٹوریہ”
  • “Footscray”

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