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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital of the state of . It lies on the eastern shores of Gulf St Vincent in the central, southern part of the Australian continent.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include City and North Adelaide and West Adelaide.

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is the central business district of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. When using the term City alone – it generally does not include North Adelaide, but the "City of Adelaide" would include North Adelaide.

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Glenelg is a beach-side suburb of the capital of Adelaide. Located on the shore of in , it has become a tourist destination due to its beach and many attractions, home to several hotels and dozens of restaurants.

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is the area northwest of , home to Adelaide's port. Similar to , many travellers end up wondering why the spelling of Outer Harbor is spelled Outer Harbor and not Outer Harbour unlike the rest of the Commonwealth.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South and East and Salisbury, Playford and Tea Tree Gully.

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is the area directly south of in Adelaide.

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are three local government areas in the northern suburbs of Adelaide.

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is a national park in Adelaide, 13 kilometres southeast of the . It is South Australia's first national park, established in 1891 also making it Australia's second national park, and the tenth in the world.

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is in . It is south of the Adelaide CBD, and is a short drive from , and . is one of South Australia's world renowned wine regions, and boasts excellent wineries, gourmet restaurants and many boutique stores.

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is a South Australian national park in the very northern outskirts of Adelaide. The park is reasonably new, and is one of the most magnificent places to go birdwatching.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Art Gallery of South Australia and South Australian Museum.

Art gallery
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The , established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of .

Museum
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The is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, , founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia.

Zoo
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is a zoo in Adelaide, . It is the country's second oldest zoo opening in 1883, and is operated on a non-profit basis. It is located in the parklands just north of the of Adelaide, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Adelaide and Norwood.

Suburb
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is a predominantly residential precinct and suburb of the City of Adelaide in , situated north of the River Torrens and within the .

Suburb
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is a suburb of Adelaide, about 4 km east of the . The suburb is in the , whose predecessor was the oldest local government municipality.

Suburb
is an inner southern suburb of Adelaide, . It is located in the .

Adelaide

Latitude
-34.9282° or 34° 55′ 42″ south
Longitude
138.5999° or 138° 35′ 60″ east
Population
1,250,000
Elevation
59 metres (194 feet)
IATA airport code
ADL
United Nations Location Code
AU ADL
Open location code
4QQW3HCX+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 941125358
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2078025
Wiki­data ID
Q5112
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Adelaide” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Аделаида”
  • Afrikaans: “Adelaide”
  • Albanian: “Adelaide”
  • Amharic: “አደለይድ”
  • Arabic: “أديلايد”
  • Arabic: “أديليد”
  • Armenian: “Ադելաիդա”
  • Asturian: “Adelaida”
  • Asturian: “Adelaide”
  • Azerbaijani: “Adelaida”
  • Balinese: “Adelaide”
  • Basque: “Adelaida”
  • Basque: “Adelaide”
  • Belarusian: “Адэлаіда”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাডিলেড”
  • Bhojpuri: “एडिलेड”
  • Bosnian: “Adelaide”
  • Breton: “Adelaide”
  • Bulgarian: “Аделаида”
  • Bulgarian: “Аделейд”
  • Burmese: “အက်ဒလိတ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Adelaida”
  • Catalan: “Adelàida”
  • Cebuano: “Adelaide (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Adelaide”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەدێلاید”
  • Chechen: “Аделаида”
  • Chinese: “Adelaide”
  • Chinese: “阿地利”
  • Chinese: “阿得雷德”
  • Chinese: “阿德莱德”
  • Chinese: “阿德萊得”
  • Chinese: “阿德萊德”
  • Chinese: “阿德雷德”
  • Chuvash: “Аделаида”
  • Corsican: “Adelaide”
  • Croatian: “Adelaide”
  • Czech: “Adelaide”
  • Danish: “Adelaide”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adelaide”
  • Dutch: “Adelaide”
  • Eastern Mari: “Аделаида”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اديلايد”
  • Esperanto: “Adelajdo”
  • Estonian: “Adelaide”
  • Faroese: “Adelaide”
  • Fijian: “Adelaidi”
  • Finnish: “Adelaide”
  • French: “Adelaïde”
  • French: “Adélaïde”
  • Galician: “Adelaida”
  • Galician: “Adelaide”
  • Georgian: “ადელაიდა”
  • German: “Adelaide”
  • Greek: “Αδελαΐδα”
  • Greek: “Άντελαϊντ”
  • Gujarati: “એડલેન્ડ”
  • Gujarati: “એડિલેઇડ”
  • Gujarati: “એડિલેડ”
  • Haitian: “Adelayid”
  • Hausa: “Adelaide”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Akaleka”
  • Hebrew: “אדלייד, אוסטרליה הדרומית”
  • Hebrew: “אדלייד, אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “אדלייד, דרום אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “אדלייד”
  • Hindi: “एडिलेड”
  • Hungarian: “Adelaide”
  • Icelandic: “Aðalheiður”
  • Icelandic: “Adelaide”
  • Ido: “Adelaide (Australia)”
  • Ido: “Adelaide, Australia”
  • Inari Sami: “Adelaide”
  • Indonesian: “Adelaide, Australia Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Adelaide”
  • Interlingue: “Adelaide”
  • Irish: “Adelaide”
  • Italian: “Adelaide”
  • Japanese: “アデレード”
  • Javanese: “Adelaide”
  • Kabyle: “Adelaide”
  • Kannada: “ಅಡಿಲೇಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Аделаида”
  • Kirghiz: “Аделаида”
  • Korean: “아델레이드”
  • Korean: “애들레이드”
  • Latin: “Adelaida”
  • Latin: “Adelaidis”
  • Latin: “Adelaidopolis”
  • Latvian: “Adelaida”
  • Latvian: “Adelaide”
  • Lithuanian: “Adelaidė”
  • Lombard: “Adelaide”
  • Low German: “Adelaide”
  • Luxembourgish: “Adelaide”
  • Macedonian: “Аделаида”
  • Macedonian: “Аделејд”
  • Magahi: “एडिलेड”
  • Malagasy: “Adelaide”
  • Malay: “Adelaide”
  • Malayalam: “അഡലെയ്‌ഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “അഡിലെയ്‌ഡ്”
  • Maltese: “Adelaide (l-Awstralja)”
  • Maltese: “Adelaide”
  • Maori: “Ātaraita”
  • Marathi: “ॲडलेड”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Adelaide”
  • Mingrelian: “ადელაიდა”
  • Moksha: “Адэлаида”
  • Mongolian: “Аделаид хот”
  • Mongolian: “Аделаид”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أديلايد”
  • Narom: “Adélaïde”
  • Narom: “Délaïde”
  • Nauru: “Adelaide”
  • Northern Frisian: “Adelaide”
  • Northern Sami: “Adelaide”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Adelaide”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adelaide”
  • Norwegian: “Adelaide”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Adelaïda”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Adelaide”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tarntanya”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Adelaide”
  • Ossetian: “Аделаидæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਡਲੇਡ”
  • Persian: “آدلاید”
  • Piemontese: “Adelaide”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Edelaid”
  • Polish: “Adelaide”
  • Polish: “Adelajda”
  • Portuguese: “Adelaide”
  • Pushto: “ایډلایډ”
  • Quechua: “Adelaide”
  • Romanian: “Adelaide”
  • Russian: “Аделаида”
  • Samoan: “Adelaide”
  • Samoan: “Atelaite”
  • Sanskrit: “एडीलेड”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱰᱤᱞᱮᱰ, ᱚᱥᱴᱨᱮᱞᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱰᱤᱞᱮᱰ, ᱮᱛᱚᱢ ᱚᱥᱴᱨᱮᱞᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱰᱤᱞᱮᱰ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Adelaide”
  • Scots: “Adelaide”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Adelaide”
  • Serbian: “Аделејд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Adelaide”
  • Silesian: “Adelaide”
  • Sindhi: “ايڊيليڊ”
  • Sinhala: “ඇඩිලේඩ්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Adelaide”
  • Slovak: “Adelaide”
  • Slovenian: “Adelaide”
  • Slovenian: “Adelajda*”
  • Somali: “Adelaide”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آدلاید”
  • Spanish: “Adelaida (Australia)”
  • Spanish: “Adelaida”
  • Swahili: “Adelaide”
  • Swedish: “Adelaide”
  • Tagalog: “Adelaide”
  • Tajik: “Аделаида”
  • Tamil: “அடிலெயிட்”
  • Tamil: “அடிலெய்டு”
  • Tatar: “Аделаида”
  • Tatar: “Әделайд”
  • Telugu: “అడిలైడ్”
  • Thai: “แอดิเลด”
  • Tok Pisin: “Adalet”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAtelaite”
  • Turkish: “Adelaide”
  • Turkmen: “Adelaýda”
  • Twi: “Adelaide”
  • Uighur: “ئادېلايدې”
  • Ukrainian: “Аделаїда”
  • Urdu: “ایڈیلیڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Adelaida”
  • Venetian: “Adelaide”
  • Veps: “Adelaid”
  • Vietnamese: “Adelaide”
  • Volapük: “Adelaide”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Adelaide”
  • Welsh: “Adelaide”
  • Western Armenian: “Ատըլէյտ”
  • Western Frisian: “Adelaide”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایڈیلیڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿德来得”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿德莱德”
  • Yakut: “Аделаида”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿地利”
  • “एडिलेड”

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