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Cairns

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  • Type: City with 153,000 residents
  • Description: city in Queensland, Australia
  • Also known as: “Cairns, Australia” and “Cairns, Queensland”
Photo: Donaldytong, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cairns Hospital and HMAS Cairns.

Hospital
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, known as the Cairns Base Hospital between 1932 and 2013, is the largest major hospital in , Australia. It is located at 165 The Esplanade, Cairns North, Cairns.

Military installation
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is a Royal Australian Navy base located adjacent to the on the shore of in Cairns, , Australia. Although used regularly as a port-of-call since before World War II, a permanent RAN presence was not established until 1971, when a maintenance and support base for patrol boats was set up.

Forest
Photo: Kerry Raymond, CC BY 4.0.
is a forest.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cairns North and Cairns City.

Suburb
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is a coastal suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, , Australia. In the 2021 census, had a population of 5,334 people.

Suburb
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is a coastal suburb at the centre of Cairns in the Cairns Region, , Australia. It is also known as the Cairns Central Business District. In the 2021 census, had a population of 3,616 people.

Suburb
is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, , Australia. In the 2021 census, had a population of 3,621 people.

Cairns

Latitude
-16.9207° or 16° 55′ 14″ south
Longitude
145.7722° or 145° 46′ 20″ east
Population
153,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
CNS
United Nations Location Code
AU CNS
Open location code
5RM73QHC+PV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29405229
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2172797
Wiki­data ID
Q189133
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cairns” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cairns”
  • Arabic: “كيرنز، كوينزلاند”
  • Arabic: “كيرنز، ولاية كوينزلاند”
  • Arabic: “كيرنز”
  • Armenian: “Քերնս”
  • Asturian: “Cairns”
  • Basque: “Cairns”
  • Belarusian: “Кэрнс”
  • Bengali: “কেয়ার্নস”
  • Bulgarian: “Кернс”
  • Burmese: “ကိန်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Cairns”
  • Cebuano: “Cairns”
  • Central Kurdish: “کێنز”
  • Chinese: “凯恩斯”
  • Chinese: “凱恩斯 (昆士蘭州)”
  • Chinese: “凱恩斯”
  • Chinese: “柬兹”
  • Chinese: “肯因斯”
  • Chinese: “開恩茲”
  • Czech: “Cairns”
  • Danish: “Cairns”
  • Dutch: “Cairns”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيرنز, كوينزلاند”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيرنز”
  • Esperanto: “Cairns”
  • Estonian: “Cairns”
  • Finnish: “Cairns”
  • French: “Cairns”
  • Galician: “Cairns”
  • Georgian: “კერნზი”
  • Georgian: “კერნსი”
  • German: “Cairns”
  • Greek: “Καιρνς”
  • Greek: “Κενζ”
  • Greek: “Κερνς”
  • Gujarati: “કેઇર્ન્સ”
  • Hebrew: “קיירנס (קווינסלנד)”
  • Hebrew: “קיירנס, אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “קיירנס, קווינסלנד”
  • Hebrew: “קיירנס”
  • Hindi: “केर्न्स”
  • Hungarian: “Cairns”
  • Indonesian: “Cairns”
  • Irish: “Cairns”
  • Italian: “Cairns”
  • Japanese: “ケアンズ”
  • Japanese: “ケアンズ市”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈರ್ನ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “케언스”
  • Korean: “케언즈”
  • Latvian: “Kērnsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Cairns”
  • Lithuanian: “Kernsas”
  • Macedonian: “Кернс”
  • Malagasy: “Cairns”
  • Malay: “Cairns”
  • Maltese: “Cairns”
  • Marathi: “केर्न्स”
  • Nauru: “Cairns”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cairns”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cairns”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cairns”
  • Norwegian: “Cairns”
  • Ossetian: “Кэрнс”
  • Persian: “کنز”
  • Polish: “Cairns”
  • Portuguese: “Cairns”
  • Romanian: “Cairns, Queensland”
  • Romanian: “Cairns”
  • Russian: “Кернс”
  • Russian: “Кэрнс”
  • Russian: “Норт-Кэрнс”
  • Sanskrit: “कैर्न्स”
  • Scots: “Cairns”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cùirn”
  • Serbian: “Кернс”
  • Silesian: “Cairns”
  • Sinhala: “කෙයාන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Cairns”
  • Slovenian: “Cairns”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کنز”
  • Spanish: “Cairns (Queensland)”
  • Spanish: “Cairns”
  • Swedish: “Cairns”
  • Tamil: “கேய்ர்ன்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Кернс”
  • Telugu: “క్రెయిన్స్”
  • Thai: “แคนส์”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kens”
  • Turkish: “Cairns”
  • Ukrainian: “Кернс”
  • Urdu: “کیرنز”
  • Uzbek: “Cairns”
  • Venetian: “Cairns”
  • Vietnamese: “Cairns”
  • Volapük: “Cairns”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cairns”
  • Welsh: “Cairns”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارنز”
  • Wu Chinese: “凯恩斯（昆士兰州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “凯恩斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “Cairns”
  • Yue Chinese: “開恩茲”

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