Australia
Tasmania
Hobart

New Town

New Town is a suburb of the city of , , Australia, about 4 kilometres north of the central business district of Hobart. It is generally considered Hobart's oldest suburb, settled just a week after .
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  • Type: Suburb with 6,000 residents
  • Description: suburb of Hobart, Australia
  • Also known as: “New Town, Tasmania” and “New Town, Tasmania, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sacred Heart College and Calvary Hospital.

School
is a catholic school in New Town, Tasmania with an enrolment of 940 students. The schools serves students from kindergarten to year 10.

Hospital
Calvary Lenah Valley Hospital is a Catholic not-for-profit private hospital located in Lenah Valley, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It operates as part of Little Company of Mary Health Care, commonly known as Calvary Health Care.

Pitch
Photo: Chuq, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a in , . Formerly used primarily for Australian rules football widely regarded as the traditional home of Australian football in Tasmania.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Queens Domain and Lenah Valley.

Suburb
The , also known as The Domain to locals, is an expansive 230 ha area of bushland, parkland, and cultural sites located just north-east of the , bordering the River Derwent in the state capital of , Tasmania, Australia.

Suburb
is a suburb of , . It is situated in the foothills of , west of the CBD between , New Town and the .

Suburb
is a suburb of that lies on a ridge that extends from a foothill of , known as Knocklofty.

New Town

Latitude
-42.8588° or 42° 51′ 32″ south
Longitude
147.30588° or 147° 18′ 21″ east
Population
6,000
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
Open location code
4R9948R4+F9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 51009479
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2206068
Wiki­data ID
Q14935638
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“New Town” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “New Town”
  • French: “New Town”
  • German: “New Town”
  • Italian: “New Town”
  • Japanese: “ニュー・タウン”
  • Slovenian: “New Town”
  • Spanish: “New Town (Tasmania)”
  • Spanish: “New Town”
  • Swedish: “New Town, Tasmanien”
  • Swedish: “New Town”
  • “New Town”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Worship Center and New Town Plaza.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “New Town”. Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.