Broken Hill
Broken Hill is a historic mining city in the Outback of New South Wales. Mining has occurred throughout the entire life of Broken Hill since its founding in 1883.
- City with about 17,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 320 metres (1,030 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code BHQ
- Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as“Broken Hill, New South Wales”“Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia”“Willyama”
- Neighbors: Menindee
- Category: locality
- Location
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Latitude
-31.965° or 31° 57′ 54″ south
Longitude
141.4511° or 141° 27′ 4″ east
UN/LOCODE
AU BHQ
Open location code
4RW32FM2+XC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Broken Hill” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Broken Hill”
- Amharic: “ብሮክን ሂል”
- Arabic: “بروكن هيل”
- Armenian: “Բրոքեն Հիլ”
- Asturian: “Broken Hill”
- Basque: “Broken Hill”
- Bengali: “ব্রোকেন হিল”
- Catalan: “Broken Hill”
- Cebuano: “Broken Hill”
- Central Kurdish: “برۆکن ھیڵ، نیو ساوت وێلز”
- Chinese: “布罗肯希尔”
- Chinese: “布羅肯希爾”
- Croatian: “Broken Hill”
- Czech: “Broken Hill”
- Danish: “Broken Hill”
- Dimli (individual language): “Broken Hill, Gallera Verociya Newi”
- Dimli (individual language): “Broken Hill”
- Dutch: “Broken Hill”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بروكن هيل”
- Esperanto: “Broken Hill”
- Esperanto: “Rompita Monteto”
- Faroese: “Broken Hill, New South Wales”
- Faroese: “Broken Hill”
- Finnish: “Broken Hill”
- French: “Broken Hill”
- Georgian: “ბროკენ–ჰილი”
- German: “Broken Hill”
- Greek: “Μπρόκεν Χιλ”
- Gujarati: “બ્રોકન હિલ”
- Hebrew: “ברוקן היל”
- Hindi: “ब्रोकन हिल”
- Hungarian: “Broken Hill”
- Indonesian: “Broken Hill, New South Wales”
- Indonesian: “Broken Hill”
- Irish: “Broken Hill”
- Irish: “Cnoc Briste”
- Italian: “Broken Hill”
- Japanese: “ブロークンヒル”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರೋಕನ್ ಹಿಲ್”
- Korean: “브로큰힐”
- Latvian: “Brokenhila”
- Lithuanian: “Broken Hilas”
- Malagasy: “Broken Hill”
- Malay: “Broken Hill”
- Marathi: “ब्रोकन हिल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Broken Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Broken Hill”
- Norwegian: “Broken Hill”
- Persian: “بروکن هیل”
- Polish: “Broken Hill”
- Portuguese: “Broken Hill”
- Romanian: “Broken Hill”
- Russian: “Брокен-Хилл”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cnoc Briste”
- Sinhala: “බ්රෝකන් හිල්”
- Slovak: “Broken Hill”
- Slovenian: “Broken Hill”
- South Azerbaijani: “بروکن هیل، یئنی گونئی ولز”
- Spanish: “Broken Hill (Nueva Gales del Sur)”
- Spanish: “Broken Hill”
- Swedish: “Broken Hill”
- Tamil: “ப்ரோகென் ஹில்”
- Telugu: “బ్రోకెన్ హిల్”
- Thai: “โบรคเคนฮิลล์”
- Turkish: “Broken Hill”
- Ukrainian: “Брокен Хілл”
- Ukrainian: “Брокен-Гілл”
- Urdu: “بروکن ہل”
- Vietnamese: “Broken Hill, New South Wales”
- Vietnamese: “Broken Hill”
- Welsh: “Broken Hill”
- Western Panjabi: “بروکن ہل”
- Yue Chinese: “Broken Hill, New South Wales”
- Yue Chinese: “Broken Hill”
- Yue Chinese: “爛山”
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