Katoomba
Katoomba is the largest and best-known town in the Blue Mountains. It serves as the main base for travellers to the Blue Mountains, and the main gateway to the two most popular tourist spots at Echo Point and Scenic World.
- Town with about 8,270 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,020 metres (3,340 feet)
- …dates from 1879
- Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as“Katoomba, New South Wales”“Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia”
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scenic World and Three Sisters.
Scenic World
Scenic World is a family-owned tourist attraction…
Katoomba railway station
Katoomba railway station is a heritage-listed railway…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leura and Echo Point.
Echo Point
Echo Point is a lookout about 2 kilometres south of Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia.
Katoomba
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Latitude
-33.714° or 33° 42′ 51″ south
Longitude
150.3116° or 150° 18′ 42″ east
UN/LOCODE
AU KTB
Open location code
4RRG78P6+9J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yakut—“Katoomba” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካቶምባ”
- Arabic: “كاتومبا”
- Aragonese: “Katoomba”
- Asturian: “Katoomba”
- Azerbaijani: “Katumba”
- Basque: “Katoomba”
- Belarusian: “Катумба”
- Bengali: “কাটুম্বা”
- Catalan: “Katoomba”
- Cebuano: “Katoomba”
- Chinese: “卡托姆巴镇”
- Chinese: “卡通巴”
- Czech: “Katoomba”
- Dutch: “Katoomba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاتومبا”
- French: “Katoomba”
- German: “Katoomba”
- Greek: “Κατούμπα”
- Hausa: “Katoomba”
- Hebrew: “קאטומבה”
- Hebrew: “קטומבה (ניו סאות‘ ויילס)”
- Hebrew: “קטומבה, ניו סאות‘ ויילס, אוסטרליה”
- Hebrew: “קטומבה”
- Hindi: “कातूम्बा”
- Indonesian: “Katoomba”
- Irish: “Katoomba”
- Italian: “Katoomba”
- Japanese: “カトゥーンバ”
- Javanese: “Katoomba”
- Kazakh: “Катумба”
- Kirghiz: “Катумба”
- Malagasy: “Katoomba”
- Malay: “Katoomba”
- Oromo: “Katoomba”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਟੂੰਬਾ”
- Persian: “کاتومبا، نیو ساوت ولز”
- Persian: “کاتومبا”
- Polish: “Katoomba”
- Portuguese: “Katoomba”
- Pushto: “کاتومبا”
- Romanian: “Katoomba, New South Wales”
- Russian: “Катумба”
- Slovak: “Katoomba”
- Somali: “Katoomba”
- Spanish: “Katoomba (Nueva Gales del Sur)”
- Spanish: “Katoomba”
- Swahili: “Katoomba”
- Swedish: “Katoomba”
- Tajik: “Катумба”
- Tatar: “Катумба”
- Turkish: “Katoomba”
- Ukrainian: “Катумба”
- Urdu: “کاتومبا”
- Urdu: “کاٹومبا”
- Uzbek: “Katumba”
- Welsh: “Katoomba”
- Yakut: “Катумба”
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