George Street
George Street is a street in the central business district of Sydney. It was Sydney's original high street, and remains one of the busiest streets in the city centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Street
- Description: street in Sydney
- Also known as: “George Street, Sydney”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Darling Harbour and Australian Securities Exchange.
Darling Harbour
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Darling Harbour is a leisure and entertainment precinct, in central Sydney. It extends to Pyrmont, Ultimo and the business district of Barangaroo, and contains The Star and Pyrmont Bay, including Harris St.
Australian Securities Exchange
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Australian Securities Exchange Ltd is an Australian public company that operates Australia's primary securities exchange, the Australian Securities Exchange. Australian Securities Exchange is situated 330 metres southeast of George Street.
Sydney Tower
Sydney Tower, also known as the Sydney Tower Eye, Westfield Tower and formerly albeit still commonly as Centrepoint Tower, is an observation and telecommunications tower that is the tallest structure in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, as well as the second-tallest observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere. Sydney Tower is situated 510 metres south of George Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include City Centre and The Hungry Mile.
City Centre
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The Sydney City Centre was where Governor Arthur Phillip first raised the British flag on Australian soil in January 1788, the earliest site of European settlement in Australia.
The Hungry Mile
Neighborhood
The Hungry Mile is the name harbourside workers gave to the docklands area of Darling Harbour East, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in the Great Depression.
The Rocks
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The Rocks is sandstone buildings, history, laneways, culture and Australiana by day, and a busy pub scene by night. It is the historical precinct of central Sydney immediately to the north of the City centre on the western side of Sydney Cove, and where the First Fleet set up their first convict settlement.
George Street
- Categories: road and transportation
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Urdu—“George Street” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “George Street”
- Chinese: “乔治街”
- Chinese: “佐治街”
- Chinese: “喬治街”
- Dutch: “George Street”
- French: “George Street”
- Italian: “George St (Sydney)”
- Italian: “George Street”
- Japanese: “ジョージ・ストリート”
- Japanese: “ジョージストリート”
- Japanese: “ジョージ通り (シドニー)”
- Malay: “George Street, Sydney”
- Polish: “George Street”
- Russian: “Джордж Стрит”
- Spanish: “George Street”
- Turkish: “George Sokağı”
- Turkish: “George Street”
- Urdu: “جارج اسٹریٹ، سڈنی”
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