Victoria
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City of Ballarat

Ballarat

Ballarat is a city about 110 km north-west of in the region of . Ballarat is most noted as a former goldmining town with excellent examples of Australian colonial architecture, and as the site of the famous miners' revolt at the Eureka Stockade in 1854.
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  • Type: City with 105,000 residents
  • Description: regional city in Victoria, Australia
  • Also known as: “Ballaarat”, “Ballarat, Victoria”, “Ballarat, Victoria, Australia”, and “Greater Ballarat”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Art Gallery of Ballarat and St John of God Ballarat Hospital.

Museum
Photo: Biatch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the oldest regional art gallery in Australia. It was established in 1884 as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery by a company of interested citizens led by James Oddie.

Hospital
provides hospital care for people living in Ballarat and Western Victoria regions of . Founded in 1915, the 221-bed hospital is located in the central business district of Ballarat, a city in Victoria, Australia.

Church
Photo: Pplu, Public domain.
St Patrick's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral church of the Diocese of Ballarat and seat of Bishop Paul Bird. The cathedral is located in the provincial city of Ballarat, Victoria, .

Ballarat

Latitude
-37.5623° or 37° 33′ 44″ south
Longitude
143.8606° or 143° 51′ 38″ east
Population
105,000
Elevation
445 metres (1,460 feet)
United Nations Location Code
AU BQA
Open location code
4RJ5CVQ6+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 189820294
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2177091
Wiki­data ID
Q17856
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ballarat” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ballarat”
  • Arabic: “بالارات، فيكتوريا”
  • Arabic: “بالارات”
  • Aragonese: “Ballarat”
  • Armenian: “Բալլարատ”
  • Arpitan: “Ballarat”
  • Asturian: “Ballarat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ballarat”
  • Basque: “Ballarat”
  • Bavarian: “Ballarat”
  • Belarusian: “Баларат”
  • Bengali: “বাল্লারাত”
  • Bengali: “ব্যালারেট”
  • Breton: “Ballarat”
  • Bulgarian: “Баларат”
  • Catalan: “Ballarat”
  • Cebuano: “Ballarat”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەلێرات”
  • Chinese: “巴拉瑞特”
  • Chinese: “巴拉腊特”
  • Chinese: “巴罅辣”
  • Corsican: “Ballarat”
  • Croatian: “Ballarat”
  • Czech: “Ballarat”
  • Danish: “Ballarat”
  • Dutch: “Ballarat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بالارات”
  • Esperanto: “Ballarat”
  • Estonian: “Ballarat”
  • Finnish: “Ballarat”
  • French: “Ballarat”
  • Friulian: “Ballarat”
  • Galician: “Ballarat”
  • Georgian: “ბალარატი”
  • German: “Ballarat”
  • Greek: “Μπαλαράτ”
  • Gujarati: “બેલારાત”
  • Hebrew: “באלאראט”
  • Hebrew: “באלרט”
  • Hebrew: “בלאראט (ויקטוריה)”
  • Hebrew: “בלאראט רבתי”
  • Hebrew: “בלאראט, ויקטוריה, אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “בלאראט, ויקטוריה”
  • Hebrew: “בלאראט”
  • Hebrew: “בלארט”
  • Hebrew: “ראט (קיצור)”
  • Hindi: “Ballarat”
  • Hindi: “बैलेरैट”
  • Hungarian: “Ballarat”
  • Icelandic: “Ballarat”
  • Ido: “Ballarat”
  • Indonesian: “Ballarat, Victoria”
  • Indonesian: “Ballarat”
  • Interlingua: “Ballarat”
  • Interlingue: “Ballarat”
  • Irish: “Ballarat”
  • Italian: “Ballarat”
  • Japanese: “バララット”
  • Javanese: “Ballarat, Victoria”
  • Javanese: “Ballarat”
  • Kannada: “ಬಲ್ಲಾರಟ್”
  • Kongo: “Ballarat”
  • Korean: “밸러랫”
  • Latvian: “Balarata”
  • Latvian: “Ballarat”
  • Ligurian: “Ballarat”
  • Limburgan: “Ballarat”
  • Lithuanian: “Balaratas”
  • Low German: “Ballarat”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ballarat”
  • Malagasy: “Ballarat”
  • Malay: “Ballarat”
  • Marathi: “बेल्लारत”
  • Minangkabau: “Ballarat”
  • Mongolian: “Балларат”
  • Narom: “Ballarat”
  • Nauru: “Ballarat”
  • Neapolitan: “Ballarat”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ballarat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ballarat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ballarat”
  • Norwegian: “Ballarat”
  • Nyungar: “Ballarat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ballarat”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ballarat”
  • Ossetian: “Балларат”
  • Persian: “بلرت”
  • Picard: “Ballarat”
  • Piemontese: “Ballarat”
  • Polish: “Ballarat”
  • Portuguese: “Ballarat”
  • Romanian: “Ballarat”
  • Romansh: “Ballarat”
  • Russian: “Балларат”
  • Sanskrit: “बल्लारत”
  • Sardinian: “Ballarat”
  • Scots: “Ballarat”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ballarat”
  • Serbian: “Ballarat”
  • Serbian: “Баларат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ballarat”
  • Sicilian: “Ballarat”
  • Silesian: “Ballarat”
  • Sinhala: “බැලරට්”
  • Slovak: “Ballarat”
  • Slovenian: “Ballarat”
  • Spanish: “Ballarat (Victoria)”
  • Spanish: “Ballarat”
  • Swahili: “Ballarat”
  • Swedish: “Ballarat”
  • Swiss German: “Ballarat”
  • Tamil: “பல்லரட்”
  • Tatar: “Бәлерәт”
  • Telugu: “బల్లరాట్”
  • Thai: “บาลเลแรท”
  • Tok Pisin: “Balarat”
  • Turkish: “Ballarat”
  • Ukrainian: “Балларат”
  • Urdu: “بالاراٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Ballarat”
  • Venetian: “Ballarat”
  • Vietnamese: “Ballarat”
  • Vlaams: “Ballarat”
  • Volapük: “Ballarat”
  • Walloon: “Ballarat”
  • Welsh: “Ballarat”
  • Western Panjabi: “بالارت”
  • Wolof: “Ballarat”
  • Yiddish: “באַלאַראַט”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴拉勒特”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴罅辣”
  • Zulu: “Ballarat”
  • “Ballarat”

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