Katoomba
Katoomba is the largest and best-known town in the Blue Mountains, around 100 km west of Sydney and 1,017 m above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,960 residents
- Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “Katoomba, New South Wales” and “Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia”
- Neighbors: Blue Mountains National Park and Leura
Places of Interest
Highlights include Three Sisters and Scenic World.
Three Sisters
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The Three Sisters are an unusual rock formation in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, on the north escarpment of the Jamison Valley. They are located close to the town of Katoomba and are one of the Blue Mountains' best known sites, towering above the Jamison Valley.
Scenic World
Scenic World is a family-owned tourist attraction located in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, about 100 kilometres west of Sydney.Katoomba railway station
Railway station
Photo: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY-SA 2.5.
Katoomba railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Main Western line in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. It serves the Blue Mountains town of Katoomba opening on 2 February 1874 as Crushers, being renamed Katoomba on 9 July 1877.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leura and Echo Point.
Leura
Leura is a small picturesque town in the Blue Mountains region of the Australian state of New South Wales, some 100 km west of Sydney CBD and situated at an elevation of 985 m above sea level.
Echo Point
Locality
Photo: Vanbasten 23, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Echo Point is a lookout about 2 kilometres south of Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. It attracts an estimated 1.5–2 million visitors each year. The lookout offers a view to Three Sisters, Mount Solitary and the rock formation known as the Ruined Castle.
Yosemite
Neighborhood
Yosemite is an unbounded locality within the locality of Katoomba and to the north of the township of Katoomba in the state of New South Wales, Australia in the City of Blue Mountains.
Katoomba
- Categories: suburb and locality
- Location: City of Blue Mountains, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.7138° or 33° 42′ 50″ southLongitude
150.3122° or 150° 18′ 44″ eastPopulation
7,960Elevation
991 metres (3,251 feet)United Nations Location Code
AU KTBOpen location code
4RRG78P6+FVOpenStreetMap ID
node 20968413OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yakut—“Katoomba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاتومبا”
- Aragonese: “Katoomba”
- Asturian: “Katoomba”
- Basque: “Katoomba”
- Belarusian: “Катумба”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “קאטומבה”
- Hebrew: “קטומבה (ניו סאות‘ ויילס)”
- Hebrew: “קטומבה, ניו סאות‘ ויילס, אוסטרליה”
- Hebrew: “קטומבה, ניו סאות‘ ויילס”
- Hebrew: “קטומבה”
- Irish: “Katoomba”
- Italian: “Katoomba”
- Japanese: “カトゥーンバ”
- Malagasy: “Katoomba”
- Persian: “کاتومبا، نیو ساوت ولز”
- Polish: “Katoomba”
- Portuguese: “Katoomba”
- Romanian: “Katoomba, New South Wales”
- Russian: “Катумба”
- Slovak: “Katoomba”
- Spanish: “Katoomba (Nueva Gales del Sur)”
- Spanish: “Katoomba”
- Swedish: “Katoomba”
- Turkish: “Katoomba”
- Ukrainian: “Катумба”
- Welsh: “Katoomba”
- Yakut: “Катумба”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Katoomba”. Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.