Kingborough Council

Kingborough Council is a local government body in Tasmania, and one of the five municipalities that constitutes the Greater Hobart Area. Kingborough is classified as an urban local government area and has a population of 37,734, it covers the transition from the southern urban areas of Hobart through Kingston, as well as encompassing Bruny Island.

Type: local government area of Tasmania with 35,200 residents
Description: local government area in Tasmania
Also known as: “Kingborough” and “Municipality of Kingborough”
Neighbors: Derwent Valley and Huon and Far South

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kingborough Sports Centre and Kingston High School.

Kingborough Sports Centre

Sports venue

The Kingborough Sports Centre is a multi-purpose sports venue located in Hobart, Tasmania, in the suburb of Kingston. The centre caters for indoor sports such as volleyball, basketball and netball.

Kingston High School

School

Kingston High School is a government co-educational comprehensive junior secondary school located in Kingston, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kingston and Margate.

Kingston

Photo: Netanyahuserious, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kingston is a town of 10,000, just twelve kilometers south of Hobart and Australia's gateway to the Antarctic, or at least, kind of. It is part of the Greater Hobart region, and seat of the Kingborough local government area, and a popular gateway for travelers intending to head down to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel region or Bruny Island, the most visited offshore island in Tasmania.

Margate

Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.

Margate is a town of 4,239 in the Greater Hobart region in southern Tasmania, and is one of the northernmost towns along the D'Entrecasteux Channel. The town is eight kilometers southwest of Kingston and 20 km from Hobart, the state capital.

Blackmans Bay

Suburb

Blackmans Bay is a coastal suburb of Kingborough Council, Tasmania, Australia. It forms part of the Kingston-Blackmans Bay urban area and is a satellite town of Greater Hobart. Blackmans Bay is situated 6 km southeast of Kingborough Council.

Kingborough Council

Location: Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-42.9745° or 42° 58′ 28″ south

Longitude

147.2511° or 147° 15′ 4″ east

Population

35,200

Elevation

281 metres (922 feet)

Open location code

4R9927G2+5F

GeoNames ID

7839676

Wikidata ID

Q1742110

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Kingborough Council” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Kingborough”
Dutch: “Kingborough Council”
French: “Conseil de Kingborough”
German: “Kingborough Council”
German: “Kingborough Municipal Council”
German: “Kingborough Municipality”
Italian: “municipalità di Kingborough”
Italian: “Municipalità di Kingborough”
Japanese: “キングボロー市議会”
Persian: “شهرداری کینگبورو”
Polish: “Gmina Kingborough”
Polish: “Kingborough Council”
Sardinian: “municipalità de Kingborough”
Slovenian: “Kingborough Council”
Spanish: “Kingborough”
Swedish: “Kingborough”
Urdu: “کنگ بورو کونسل”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Picket Hill and Hobart Regional Cemetery.

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