Newtown
Newtown is an inner western suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Newtown had a population of 10,445. It is a primarily residential area occupying one of the highest points of urban Geelong.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 9,830 residents
- Description: suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Newtown, Greater Geelong , Victoria, Australia”, “Newtown, Victoria”, and “Newtown, Victoria, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Joseph’s College and Sacred Heart College.
St Joseph’s College
School
St Joseph's College is an independent Catholic secondary school for boys, located in the inner Geelong suburb of Newtown, Victoria, Australia. The school was founded by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1935, who continue to run the school, and…
Sacred Heart College
School
Sacred Heart College is a Roman Catholic secondary school for girls, and is located in Retreat Road, Newtown, Geelong, Victoria in Australia. It is now one of the largest Catholic secondary girls schools in Victoria.
Balyang Sanctuary
Recreation area
Balyang Sanctuary is a public park in the suburb of Newtown, Geelong. Situated at on the banks of the Barwon River, it is 20 acres in size and consists of open park lands, lakes, and wetlands. It was opened in 1973.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Geelong and Batesford.
Geelong
Photo: Wongm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Victoria's second largest city, Geelong is a bustling port city in the state's South West Coast region, about 75 km southwest of Melbourne. It forms the gateway to the Bellarine Peninsula, a popular family getaway destination, and the world-famous Great Ocean Road.
Batesford
Village
Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Batesford is a town located approximately 10 kilometres west of Geelong and 67 kilometres south-west of the state capital, Melbourne. It is located on the banks of the Moorabool River and on the Midland Highway. Batesford is situated 8 km northwest of Newtown.
Barrabool
Locality
Barrabool is a locality in the Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia. In the 2016 census, Barrabool had a population of 235 people. Barrabool is situated 10 km west of Newtown.
Newtown
- Categories: gazetted locality of Victoria and locality
- Location: Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-38.15391° or 38° 9′ 14″ southLongitude
144.3351° or 144° 20′ 6″ eastPopulation
9,830Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)Open location code
4RH6R8WP+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2558184497OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8348982Wikidata ID
Q14935255
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Newtown” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “নিউটাউন”
- French: “Newtown”
- Irish: “Newtown”
- Japanese: “ビクトリア(ジーロングの郊外)”
- Russian: “Нютоун”
- Spanish: “Newtown (Victoria)”
- Spanish: “Newtown”
- Urdu: “نیو ٹاؤن، وکٹوریہ”
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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 “Newtown”. Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ, CC0.