Foster
Foster is a dairying and grazing town 174 kilometres south-east of Melbourne on the South Gippsland Highway in Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census Foster had a population of 1,164.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 1,310 residents
- Description: town in Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Foster, Victoria” and “Foster, Victoria, Australia”
- Neighbors: Fish Creek
Foster
- Category: locality
- Location: South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-38.651° or 38° 39′ 4″ southLongitude
146.2019° or 146° 12′ 7″ eastPopulation
1,310Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)Open location code
4RH886X2+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 59631941OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2166271Wikidata ID
Q3749041
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Russian—“Foster” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Foster”
- Dutch: “Foster, Victoria”
- French: “Foster”
- Italian: “Foster (Victoria)”
- Italian: “Foster”
- Japanese: “フォスター”
- Polish: “Foster (Australia)”
- Polish: “Foster”
- Russian: “Фостер”
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