Forbes
Forbes is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the Newell Highway between Parkes and West Wyalong. According to the 2021 census, Forbes has a population of 9,319.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,840 residents
- Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “Forbes, New South Wales” and “Forbes, New South Wales, Australia”
Photo: Amanda Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forbes Post Office and Forbes Cemetery.
Forbes Post Office
Post office
Forbes Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 118 Lachlan Street, Forbes, in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by the New South Wales Colonial Architect's Office under James Barnet and built from 1879 to 1881 by P.
Forbes
- Category: locality
- Location: Forbes Shire, Central West, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-33.3843° or 33° 23′ 3″ southLongitude
148.0097° or 148° 0′ 35″ eastPopulation
6,840Elevation
243 metres (797 feet)IATA airport code
FRBUnited Nations Location Code
AU FRBOpen location code
4RRCJ285+7VOpenStreetMap ID
node 230571223OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2166368Wikidata ID
Q2107368
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Forbes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوربس”
- Asturian: “Forbes”
- Basque: “Forbes (Hegoaldeko Gales Berria)”
- Basque: “Forbes”
- Cebuano: “Forbes”
- Chinese: “新南威尔士福布斯地区”
- Chinese: “福布斯 (新南威爾士州)”
- Dutch: “Forbes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوربس”
- French: “Forbes”
- German: “Forbes”
- Italian: “Forbes”
- Japanese: “フォーブズ”
- Persian: “فوربز، نیو ساوت ولز”
- Polish: “Forbes (Australia)”
- Polish: “Forbes”
- Portuguese: “Forbes”
- Russian: “Форбс”
- Spanish: “Forbes, Nueva Gales del Sur”
- Spanish: “Forbes”
- Swedish: “Forbes, New South Wales”
- Swedish: “Forbes”
- Vietnamese: “Forbes, New South Wales”
- Vietnamese: “Forbes”
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