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Darwin

Darwin

Darwin, a small yet cosmopolitan city, is the tropical capital city of the . People from more than 50 nations make up its population of 147,255.
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  • Type: City with 122,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia, and the surrounding area
  • Also known as: “Darwin, Australia”, “Darwin, Northern Territory”, “Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia”, “Garramilla”, “Port Darwin”, “Van Diemen’s Land”, and “达尔文港”
  • Historically known as: “Palmerston”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parliament House and Darwin Convention Centre.

Government office
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in Darwin has been the seat of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 1994. is located on State Square in the centre of Darwin, which is also the administrative centre of the law and government.

Convention center
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The is a convention centre located in Darwin, Northern Territory, . Construction started on the convention centre in early 2006 and completed in June 2008, with the centre opening in July of that year.

Church
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The St Mary's Star of the Sea Cathedral is the main place of Catholic worship in the city of Darwin, , and the seat of the bishop of the Diocese of Darwin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stuart Park and Larrakeyah.

Suburb
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is an inner suburb of the city of Darwin, , . It is the traditional country and waterways of the Larrakia people.

Suburb
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is an inner suburb of Darwin, the capital city of 's . It is the traditional country and waterways of the Larrakia people.

Suburb
Photo: Bidgee, CC BY 3.0.
is an inner suburb of the city of Darwin, , . It is the traditional country and waterways of the Larrakia people.

Darwin

Latitude
-12.4604° or 12° 27′ 38″ south
Longitude
130.841° or 130° 50′ 28″ east
Population
122,000
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
IATA airport code
DRW
United Nations Location Code
AU PAL
Open location code
5QVGGRQR+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1639099539
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2073124
Wiki­data ID
Q11568
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Darwin” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Darwin”
  • Albanian: “Darvin”
  • Amharic: “ዳርዊን”
  • Arabic: “داروين، الإقليم الشمالي”
  • Arabic: “داروين”
  • Armenian: “Դարվին”
  • Asturian: “Darwin (Australia)”
  • Asturian: “Darwin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Darvin”
  • Balinese: “Darwin, Wawengkon Kalér”
  • Basque: “Darwin”
  • Belarusian: “Дарвін (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Дарвін”
  • Bengali: “ডারউইন, উত্তর অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “ডারউইন”
  • Bosnian: “Darwin”
  • Breton: “Darwin (Aostralia)”
  • Breton: “Darwin”
  • Bulgarian: “Дарвин”
  • Bulgarian: “Даруин”
  • Burmese: “ဒါဝင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Darwin”
  • Cebuano: “Darwin”
  • Central Kurdish: “داروین”
  • Chinese: “Darwin”
  • Chinese: “达尔文”
  • Chinese: “达尔文市”
  • Chinese: “達爾文”
  • Croatian: “Darwin”
  • Czech: “Darwin”
  • Danish: “Darwin”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Darwin, Erdê Zımey”
  • Dutch: “Darwin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داروين, الاقليم الشمالى”
  • Esperanto: “Darvino”
  • Estonian: “Darwin”
  • Faroese: “Darwin, Avstralia”
  • Faroese: “Darwin”
  • Finnish: “Darwin”
  • French: “Darwin”
  • French: “Terre de Diemen”
  • French: “Terre de Van Diemen”
  • Galician: “Darwin, Australia”
  • Galician: “Darwin”
  • Georgian: “დარვინი”
  • German: “Darwin”
  • Greek: “Ντάργουιν”
  • Gujarati: “ડાર્વિન”
  • Hebrew: “דרווין, הטריטוריה הצפונית”
  • Hebrew: “דרווין”
  • Hindi: “डार्विन, नॉर्थर्न टेरिटरी”
  • Hindi: “डार्विन”
  • Hungarian: “Darwin”
  • Icelandic: “Darwin”
  • Ido: “Darwin (Australia)”
  • Ido: “Darwin, Australia”
  • Indonesian: “Darwin, Wilayah Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Darwin”
  • Irish: “Darwin, Críoch an Tuaiscirt”
  • Italian: “Darwin”
  • Japanese: “ダーウィン (ノーザンテリトリー)”
  • Japanese: “ダーウィン”
  • Javanese: “Darwin”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ವಿನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Дарвин (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Дарвин”
  • Korean: “다윈”
  • Latin: “Darwin”
  • Latin: “Terra de Van Diemen”
  • Latvian: “Dārvina”
  • Limburgan: “Darwin”
  • Lithuanian: “Darvinas”
  • Lombard: “Darwin (Australia)”
  • Lombard: “Darwin”
  • Luxembourgish: “Darwin”
  • Macedonian: “Дарвин (град)”
  • Macedonian: “Дарвин”
  • Magahi: “डार्विन”
  • Malay: “Darwin, Wilayah Utara”
  • Malay: “Darwin”
  • Malayalam: “ഡാർവിൻ, നോർത്തേൺ ടെറിട്ടറി”
  • Malayalam: “ഡാർവിൻ”
  • Maori: “Tāwini”
  • Marathi: “डार्विन, ऑस्ट्रेलिया”
  • Marathi: “डार्विन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Darwin”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Darwin”
  • Mingrelian: “დარვინი (ავსტრალია)”
  • Mingrelian: “დარვინი”
  • Mongolian: “Дарвин хот”
  • Mongolian: “Дарвин”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “داروين”
  • Nauru: “Darwin”
  • Nepali: “डार्विन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Darwin (Northern Territory)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Darwin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Darwin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darwin i Australia”
  • Norwegian: “Darwin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Darwin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Garramilla”
  • Ossetian: “Дарвин”
  • Panjabi: “ਡਾਰਵਿਨ, ਉੱਤਰੀ ਰਾਜਖੇਤਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਡਾਰਵਿਨ”
  • Persian: “داروین”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Daarwin”
  • Polish: “Darwin”
  • Portuguese: “Darwin”
  • Pushto: “داروین”
  • Quechua: “Darwin (Awstralya)”
  • Quechua: “Darwin”
  • Romanian: “Darwin”
  • Russian: “Дарвин”
  • Santali: “ᱰᱟᱨᱣᱤᱱ, ᱱᱚᱨᱛᱷ ᱴᱮᱨᱤᱴᱚᱨᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Darwin (Territòriu de su Norte)”
  • Sardinian: “Darwin”
  • Scots: “Darwin, Northren Territory”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Darwin, Astrailia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Darwin, Astràilia”
  • Serbian: “Дарвин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Darwin, Australija”
  • Silesian: “Darwin”
  • Sindhi: “ڊارون (شھر)”
  • Sindhi: “ڊارون”
  • Sinhala: “ඩාවින්”
  • Slovak: “Darwin”
  • Slovenian: “Darwin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “داروین، قوزئی توپراق‌لاری”
  • Spanish: “Darwin (Australia)”
  • Spanish: “Darwin (Territorio del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Darwin”
  • Swedish: “Darwin, Northern Territory”
  • Swedish: “Darwin”
  • Tagalog: “Darwin”
  • Tajik: “Дарвин”
  • Tamil: “டார்வின்”
  • Tatar: “Дарвин (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Дарвин”
  • Telugu: “డార్విన్”
  • Thai: “ดาร์วิน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Dawin”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tāuini”
  • Turkish: “Darwin, Kuzey Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Darwin, Kuzey Toprakları”
  • Turkish: “Darwin”
  • Turkmen: “Darwin”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарвін”
  • Urdu: “ڈارون, شمالی ریجن”
  • Urdu: “ڈارون, شمالی علاقہ”
  • Urdu: “ڈارون، شمالی علاقہ”
  • Urdu: “ڈارون”
  • Uzbek: “Darvin”
  • Venetian: “Darwin”
  • Veps: “Darvin”
  • Vietnamese: “Darwin”
  • Volapük: “Darwin (Laustralän)”
  • Volapük: “Darwin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Darwin, Amihanan nga Teritoryo”
  • Welsh: “Darwin, Tiriogaeth y Gogledd”
  • Western Frisian: “Darwin”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈارون”
  • Wu Chinese: “达尔文”
  • Yakut: “Дарвин(Аустралия)”
  • Yakut: “Дарвин”
  • Yiddish: “דארווין, אויסטראליע”
  • Yiddish: “דארווין”
  • Yue Chinese: “達爾文”
  • “Darwin”

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