Australia
Tasmania
Eastern Tasmania

Launceston

Launceston is the second-largest city in and provides a base to explore the northern part of the state. The city was settled in 1805 and has a population of 87,645, making it Australia's fifth-largest inland city.
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  • Type: City with 80,900 residents
  • Description: city in the north of Tasmania, Australia
  • Also known as: “Launceston, Tas.”, “Launceston, Tasmania”, “Launcestown”, “Lonnie”, and “Patersonia”
Photo: Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include York Park and Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery.

Stadium
is a sports ground in the Inveresk and Precinct, Launceston, . Holding 21,000 people, is known commercially as University of Tasmania Stadium and was formerly known as Aurora Stadium under a previous naming rights agreement signed with Aurora Energy in 2004.

Museum
Photo: Kspilling, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery is a located in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest museum in Australia not located in a capital city.

Theater building
Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY 3.0.
The is a historic theatre in Launceston, Tasmania, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Riverside and Newstead.

Town
is a rural and urban locality in the local government areas of and in the Launceston region of , Australia.

Suburb
is a residential locality in the local government area of Launceston in the Launceston LGA region of . The locality is about 3 kilometres east of the town of Launceston.

Suburb
is a residential locality in the local government area of Launceston in the Launceston LGA region of . The locality is about 3 kilometres south-west of the town of Launceston.

Launceston

Latitude
-41.4341° or 41° 26′ 3″ south
Longitude
147.1374° or 147° 8′ 15″ east
Population
80,900
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
LST
United Nations Location Code
AU LST
Open location code
4RC9H48P+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244646675
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2160517
Wiki­data ID
Q339527
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Satellite Map

Discover Launceston from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Launceston” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لاونسستون”
  • Armenian: “Լոնսեստոն”
  • Asturian: “Launceston”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lonseston”
  • Basque: “Launceston (Tasmania)”
  • Basque: “Launceston”
  • Belarusian: “Лонсестан”
  • Belarusian: “Лонсэстан”
  • Bengali: “লন্সেস্টন”
  • Bengali: “লানচেন্টন”
  • Catalan: “Launceston”
  • Cebuano: “Launceston”
  • Central Kurdish: “لانسێستن، تاسمانیا”
  • Chinese: “倫瑟斯頓”
  • Chinese: “朗塞斯頓”
  • Chinese: “朗塞斯顿”
  • Chinese: “朗瑟士敦”
  • Czech: “Launceston”
  • Danish: “Launceston”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Launceston, Tazmanya”
  • Dutch: “Launceston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاونسستون”
  • Esperanto: “Launceston”
  • Finnish: “Launceston”
  • French: “Launceston”
  • Georgian: “ლონსესტონი”
  • German: “Launceston”
  • Greek: “Λόνσεστον”
  • Gujarati: “લૉન્સેસ્ટન”
  • Hausa: “Launceston, Tasmania”
  • Hausa: “Launceston”
  • Hebrew: “לוני (קיצור)”
  • Hebrew: “לונסטון (טזמניה)”
  • Hebrew: “לונסטון (טסמניה)”
  • Hebrew: “לונסטון, טזמניה, אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “לונסטון, טזמניה”
  • Hebrew: “לונסטון, טסמניה, אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “לונסטון, טסמניה”
  • Hebrew: “לונסטון”
  • Hebrew: “לונססטון”
  • Hindi: “लाउंसेस्टन, तस्मानिया”
  • Hindi: “लाउंसेस्टन”
  • Hindi: “लॉन्सेस्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Launceston”
  • Indonesian: “Launceston, Tasmania”
  • Indonesian: “Launceston”
  • Irish: “Launceston”
  • Italian: “Launceston”
  • Japanese: “ローンセストン・タスマニア”
  • Japanese: “ローンセストン”
  • Japanese: “ロンセストン”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾವ್ನ್ಸೆಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “론서스턴”
  • Korean: “론세스턴”
  • Latvian: “Lonsestona”
  • Lithuanian: “Lonsestonas”
  • Macedonian: “Лонсестон”
  • Malay: “Launceston”
  • Maori: “Rahetone”
  • Marathi: “लॉंन्सेस्‍टोन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Launceston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Launceston”
  • Norwegian: “Launceston”
  • Persian: “لانسستون، تاسمانی”
  • Persian: “لانسستون”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Lonseston, Tas.”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Lonseston”
  • Polish: “Launceston”
  • Portuguese: “Launceston”
  • Romanian: “Launceston”
  • Russian: “Лонсестон”
  • Sanskrit: “लॉनसेसटन”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Launceston”
  • Serbian: “Launceston”
  • Serbian: “Lonseston”
  • Serbian: “Лонсестон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Launceston”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lonseston”
  • Sinhala: “ලෞසෙස්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Launceston”
  • Slovenian: “Launceston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لانسستون، تاسمانی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لانسستون”
  • Spanish: “Launceston (Tasmania)”
  • Spanish: “Launceston”
  • Swedish: “Launceston, Tasmanien”
  • Swedish: “Launceston”
  • Tamil: “லான்செசுடன், டாசுமேனியா”
  • Tamil: “லான்செசுடன்”
  • Telugu: “లౌన్సెస్టన్”
  • Thai: “ลอนเชสตัน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Lonseston”
  • Turkish: “Launceston”
  • Ukrainian: “Лонсестон”
  • Urdu: “لانسسٹن، تسمانیا”
  • Urdu: “لانسسٹن”
  • Venetian: “Launceston”
  • Vietnamese: “Launceston, Tasmania”
  • Vietnamese: “Launceston”
  • Volapük: “Launceston (Laustralän)”
  • Volapük: “Launceston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Launceston, Tasmania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Launceston”
  • Welsh: “Launceston, Tasmania”
  • Welsh: “Launceston”
  • Western Panjabi: “لاونسسٹن”

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