Australia
New South Wales
City of Broken Hill

Broken Hill

Broken Hill is a historic mining city in the Outback of . Mining has occurred throughout the entire life of Broken Hill since its founding in 1883.
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  • Type: City with 17,500 residents
  • Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
  • Also known as: “Broken Hill, New South Wales”, “Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia”, and “Willyama”
  • Neighbors:

Broken Hill

Latitude
-31.965° or 31° 57′ 54″ south
Longitude
141.4511° or 141° 27′ 4″ east
Population
17,500
Elevation
317 metres (1,040 feet)
IATA airport code
BHQ
United Nations Location Code
AU BHQ
Open location code
4RW32FM2+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 113763535
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2173911
Wiki­data ID
Q270734
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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”
  • Chinese: “爛山”
  • 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”
  • Georgian: “ბროკენ-ჰილი”
  • 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، نیو ساوت ولز”
  • Persian: “بروکن هیل”
  • Polish: “Broken Hill”
  • Portuguese: “Broken Hill”
  • Romanian: “Broken Hill”
  • Russian: “Брокен Хилл”
  • 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”
  • “Broken Hill”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Broken Hill”. Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.