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Parkes

Parkes is an suburb of the Canberra Central district of , located within the of . Located southeast of the Canberra central business district, Parkes contains the and many of the national monuments of Australia's capital city.
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  • Type: Suburb with 4 residents
  • Description: suburb of Canberra, Australia
  • Also known as: “Parkes, Australian Capital Territory” and “Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, Australia”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Library of Australia and National Gallery of Australia.

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…

Arts center
Photo: Thennicke, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art.

Arts center
Photo: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also known as the of Australia in is a public art gallery containing portraits of prominent Australians.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parliamentary Triangle and Russell Offices.

Neighborhood
Photo: Fir0002, GFDL.
The National Triangle, also known as the , is the ceremonial precinct of Canberra, containing some of Australia's most significant buildings.

Neighborhood
Photo: Nick Dowling, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also referred to as Russell or RO, is a complex of office buildings located in , a suburb of , constituting the seat of the Australian Department of Defence and part of the administrative headquarters of the Australian Defence Force.

Photo: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Parkes

Latitude
-35.29592° or 35° 17′ 45″ south
Longitude
149.13516° or 149° 8′ 7″ east
Population
4
Elevation
576 metres (1,890 feet)
Open location code
4RPFP43P+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 895545228
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8555700
Wiki­data ID
Q532974
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Slovenian—“Parkes” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “帕克斯”
  • French: “Parkes”
  • Hungarian: “Parkes”
  • Irish: “Parkes”
  • Japanese: “パークス”
  • Persian: “پارکس، قلمرو پایتختی استرالیا”
  • Russian: “Паркс”
  • Slovenian: “Parkes”

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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 “Parkes”. Photo: Thennicke, CC BY-SA 4.0.