Commonwealth Park

Commonwealth Park is in , , adjacent to the north side of . Centrally located in the city, it is an important part of the urban landscape.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Library of Australia and National Capital Exhibition.

Library
Photo: Shkuru Afshar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing…

Museum
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is a museum.

Arts center
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The , formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia and one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parliamentary Triangle and Civic.

Neighborhood
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The National Triangle, also known as the , is the ceremonial precinct of Canberra, containing some of Australia's most important buildings.

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Canberra's downtown area, is what is now Walter Burley Griffin's design for a Centre. Established in 1927, this is Canberra's central business district and one of its oldest centres, surrounded by the rest of , and Lake Burley Griffin.

Locality
The is located on the northern shore of , in the centre of , the capital of Australia. It was created when the lake was artificially built by damming the and excavating around it to create the desired shape.

Commonwealth Park

Latitude
-35.28903° or 35° 17′ 21″ south
Longitude
149.13324° or 149° 7′ 60″ east
Elevation
571 metres (1,873 feet)
Open location code
4RPFP46M+97
Open­Street­Map ID
way 11305622
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
8154498
Wiki­data ID
Q5153821
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Commonwealth Park” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Commonwealth Park”
  • Chinese: “Commonwealth 公园”
  • Chinese: “國家首都展覽館”
  • Hebrew: “חבר העמים הבריטי”
  • Swedish: “Commonwealth Park”
  • Vietnamese: “Công viên Commonwealth”

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