Melbourne

Melbourne is Australia's cultural capital and second biggest city, with Victorian-era architecture, extensive shopping, museums, galleries, theatres, and large parks and gardens.
melbourne.vic.gov.au
visitmelbourne.com
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Ferylbob, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Scott Cresswell, CC BY 2.0.

Essential Destinations

Top destinations include CBD and Eastern suburbs.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The central business district of Melbourne is the city's cultural, entertainment and financial heart. Locally called the , or simply "the City", it is where most international and interstate visitors spend the bulk of their time.

Photo: Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The of Melbourne, , are a diverse region with parks, shopping precincts, and cultural attractions, characterised by leafy streets, historic homes, and a blend of urban and suburban vibes.

Photo: MDRX, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, commonly known as Tullamarine Airport, is largest and busiest airport, about 23 km northwest of in the suburb of .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Western suburbs and Inner east.

Photo: Rexness, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The of Melbourne include the areas of Airport West, Caroline Springs, Essendon, Kensington, Flemington, Footscray, Keilor, Melton, Point Cook, Sunshine, Sydenham, Werribee, Williamstown and Yarraville.

Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.
The of Melbourne consists of a number of suburbs and localities within the Yarra municipality. Compared with glitzy on the other side of the river, the inner eastern area is known among Melburnians as a working-class district, filled with pubs and old factories.

Photo: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The of Melbourne include Ascot Vale, Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Bundoora, Coburg, Epping, Hume, Ivanhoe, Moonee Ponds, Nillumbik Shire, Northcote, South Morang, and Tullamarine.

Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a vibrant beachside suburb of Port Phillip, in south-eastern inner Melbourne, . St. Kilda is famous for its beach life and the bar and restaurant scene along Fitzroy Street.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Melbourne's is a vibrant and diverse area, home to a number of cultural and social icons of Melbourne. It is famed for the popular Lygon Street Italian district, while next door lies the University of Melbourne, the best university in Australia by many rankings.

Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb of Melbourne, . It has a beautiful beach, vibrant street art, many restaurants, bars and shops.

Photo: Xb-70, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Melbourne's Southern Cross Station is not just the main station of Melbourne, but where the entire comes together. It's at the western edge of , with plenty tram, suburban and regional connections, in addition to a coach terminal.

Photo: Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0.
is an area and municipality in Melbourne, just southeast of the . It includes the main centres of South Yarra, Prahran and Toorak. This is the posh part of Melbourne and its most expensive place to live.

Photo: Jjron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The southeast of Melbourne is an eclectic mix of multicultural suburbs offering flavourful Asian and European foods and quaint seaside towns in which to relax.

Photo: Korkut Tas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Melbourne's contains a number of suburbs and places worthy of a visit. The landscape varies from industrial ports to glitzy waterfront localities.
Photo: Diliff, CC BY 2.5.
Photo: Shkuru Afshar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Chris Phutully, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Melbourne Cricket Ground and Royal Exhibition Building.

Stadium
Photo: Flickerd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known locally as the 'G', is a multi-purpose stadium located in in the suburb of , Victoria, Australia.

Photo: Diliff, CC BY 2.5.
The is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed building in Melbourne, Victoria, , built in 1879–1880 as part of the international exhibition movement, which presented over 50 exhibitions between 1851 and 1915 around the globe.

Stadium
Photo: Joe.Bekker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Docklands Stadium is a stadium located in the Melbourne suburb of . It is primarily used for Australian rules football as the home ground of several teams in the Australian Football League.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Docklands and Chinatown.

Suburb
Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, , located directly to the western end of the between the neighboring suburbs of to the north/northwest, and , and to the south/southwest.

Neighborhood
Photo: Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an ethnic enclave in the of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Centred at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street, it extends between the corners of Swanston and Spring streets, and consists of numerous laneways, alleys and arcades.

Neighborhood
is an unbounded neighbourhood of the suburb of East Melbourne, Victoria, . Situated to the south east of the city's primary axis, features parks, business precincts and a limited amount of residential accommodation.

Melbourne

Latitude
-37.8142° or 37° 48′ 51″ south
Longitude
144.9632° or 144° 57′ 47″ east
Population
4,590,000
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
IATA airport code
MEL
United Nations Location Code
AU MEL
Open location code
4RJ65XP7+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21579127
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2158177
Wiki­data ID
Q3141
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Melbourne from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zhuang—“Melbourne” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Мельбурн”
  • Adyghe: “Мелбурн”
  • Afrikaans: “Melbourne”
  • Albanian: “Melburni”
  • Amharic: “መልበርን፣ ቪክቶሪያ”
  • Amharic: “መልበርን”
  • Arabic: “ملبورن”
  • Aragonese: “Melbourne”
  • Armenian: “Մելբուռն”
  • Asturian: “Melbourne”
  • Awadhi: “मेलबर्न”
  • Azerbaijani: “Melburn”
  • Balinese: “Melbourne”
  • Bashkir: “Мельбурн, Австралия”
  • Bashkir: “Мельбурн”
  • Basque: “Melbourne”
  • Belarusian: “Мельбурн”
  • Belarusian: “Мэльбурн”
  • Bengali: “মেলবোর্ন”
  • Bhojpuri: “मेलबर्न”
  • Bislama: “Melben”
  • Bosnian: “Melbourne”
  • Breton: “Melbourne”
  • Bulgarian: “Мелбърн”
  • Burmese: “မဲလ်ဘုန်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Melbourne”
  • Cebuano: “Melbourne, Australia”
  • Cebuano: “Melbourne”
  • Central Bikol: “Melbourne”
  • Central Kurdish: “مێلبۆرن”
  • Chechen: “Мельбурн”
  • Cheyenne: “Melbourne”
  • Chinese: “Melbourne”
  • Chinese: “猫本”
  • Chinese: “墨尔本”
  • Chinese: “墨爾本/墨尔本”
  • Chinese: “墨爾本”
  • Chuvash: “Мельбурн”
  • Corsican: “Melbourne”
  • Croatian: “Melbourne”
  • Czech: “Melbourne”
  • Danish: “Melbourne”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Melbourne”
  • Dutch: “Melbourne”
  • Dzongkha: “མེལ་བོརན། Melbourn”
  • Dzongkha: “མེལ་བོརོན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мельбурн”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميلبورن”
  • Esperanto: “Melburno”
  • Estonian: “Melbourne”
  • Extremaduran: “Melbourne”
  • Faroese: “Melbourne”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Melbourne”
  • Fijian: “Malevani”
  • Finnish: “Melbourne”
  • French: “Melbourne”
  • Galician: “Melbourne”
  • Georgian: “მელბურნი”
  • German: “Melbourne”
  • Greek: “Μελβούρνη”
  • Guarani: “Melbourne”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Mèlboun”
  • Gujarati: “મેલબોર્ન”
  • Haitian: “Mèlboun”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Melbourne”
  • Hausa: “Melbourne”
  • Hawaiian: “Melbourne”
  • Hebrew: “מלבורן (אוסטרליה)”
  • Hebrew: “מלבורן (ויקטוריה)”
  • Hebrew: “מלבורן רבתי”
  • Hebrew: “מלבורן, אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “מלבורן, ויקטוריה, אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “מלבורן, ויקטוריה”
  • Hebrew: “מלבורן”
  • Hebrew: “מלבז (קיצור)”
  • Hebrew: “מלבס (קיצור)”
  • Hindi: “मॆल्बोर्न्”
  • Hindi: “मेलबॉर्न”
  • Hindi: “मेलबोर्न”
  • Hindi: “मेल्बोर्न्”
  • Hungarian: “Melbourne”
  • Icelandic: “Melbourne”
  • Ido: “Melbourne”
  • Iloko: “Melbourne”
  • Indonesian: “Melbourne”
  • Interlingue: “Melbourne”
  • Irish: “Melbourne”
  • Italian: “Grande Melbourne”
  • Italian: “Melbourne”
  • Japanese: “メルボルン”
  • Javanese: “Melbourne”
  • Kabyle: “Melbourne”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Melbourne”
  • Kalaallisut: “Melbourne”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಲ್ಬರ್ನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಲ್ಬೋರ್ನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Melburn”
  • Karekare: “Melbourne”
  • Kazakh: “Мельбурн қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Мельбурн”
  • Kirghiz: “Мельбурн”
  • Kölsch: “Melbourne”
  • Korean: “멜버른”
  • Korean: “멜번”
  • Ladino: “Melbourne”
  • Lao: “ເມລເບີນ”
  • Latin: “Melbournum”
  • Latin: “Melburnia”
  • Latvian: “Melburna”
  • Ligurian: “Melbourne”
  • Limburgan: “Melbourne”
  • Lithuanian: “Melburnas”
  • Livvi: “Melbourne”
  • Lombard: “Melbourne”
  • Luxembourgish: “Melbourne”
  • Macedonian: “Мелбурн”
  • Magahi: “मेलबर्न”
  • Malagasy: “Melbourne”
  • Malay: “Melbourne”
  • Malayalam: “മെൽബൺ”
  • Maltese: “Melbourne”
  • Maori: “Marapana”
  • Maori: “Marepana”
  • Maori: “Merepana”
  • Maori: “Poipiripi”
  • Maori: “Poipiripiri”
  • Marathi: “मेलबर्न”
  • Mazanderani: “ملبورن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Melbourne”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Melbourne”
  • Mingrelian: “მელბურნი”
  • Mongolian: “Мельбурн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ميلبورن”
  • Nauru: “Melbourne”
  • Nepali: “मेलबर्न”
  • Newari: “मेलबर्न”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Melbon”
  • Northern Frisian: “Melbourne”
  • Northern Sami: “Melbourne”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melbourne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melbourne”
  • Norwegian: “Melbourne”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Melborn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Melbourne”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Naarm”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܠܒܘܪܢ”
  • Oromo: “Melbourne”
  • Ossetian: “Мельбурн”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੈਲਬਰਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Melbourne”
  • Persian: “ملبورن”
  • Picard: “Melbourne”
  • Piemontese: “Melbourne”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Melban”
  • Polish: “Melbourne”
  • Portuguese: “Melbourne”
  • Pushto: “ملبورن”
  • Quechua: “Melbourne”
  • Romanian: “Melbourne”
  • Russian: “Мельбурн”
  • Samoan: “Melepone”
  • Samogitian: “Melborns”
  • Sanskrit: “मेल्बोर्न्”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱮᱞᱵᱳᱨᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Melbourne”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Melbourne”
  • Scots: “Melbourne”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Meall Bùirn”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Melbourne”
  • Serbian: “Мелбурн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Melbourne”
  • Sicilian: “Melbourne”
  • Silesian: “Melbourne”
  • Sindhi: “ميلبورن”
  • Sinhala: “මෙල්බන්”
  • Sinhala: “මෙල්බර්න්”
  • Sinhala: “මෙල්බෝන්”
  • Sinhala: “මෙල්බෝර්න්”
  • Slovak: “Melbourne”
  • Slovenian: “Melbourne”
  • Somali: “Melbourne”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ملبورن”
  • Spanish: “Melbourne (Australia)”
  • Spanish: “Melbourne (Victoria)”
  • Spanish: “Melbourne”
  • Swahili: “Melbourne”
  • Swedish: “Melbourne”
  • Tagalog: “Melbourne”
  • Tahitian: “Marapana”
  • Tahitian: “Melbourne”
  • Tajik: “Мелбурн”
  • Tajik: “Мельбурн”
  • Tamil: “மெல்பர்ன்”
  • Tamil: “மெல்பேர்ண்”
  • Tamil: “மெல்போர்ன்”
  • Tatar: “Мельбурн”
  • Telugu: “మెల్బోర్న్”
  • Telugu: “మెల్‌బోర్న్”
  • Thai: “เมลเบิร์น”
  • Tibetan: “མེར་བུན”
  • Tok Pisin: “Melben”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Melipoane”
  • Tumbuka: “Melbourne”
  • Turkish: “Melbourne”
  • Turkmen: “Melburn”
  • Twi: “Melbourne”
  • Uighur: “Mélburn”
  • Uighur: “مېلبۇرن”
  • Ukrainian: “Мельбурн”
  • Urdu: “ملبورن”
  • Urdu: “میلبرن”
  • Uzbek: “Melburn”
  • Venetian: “Melbourne”
  • Veps: “Mel’burn”
  • Vietnamese: “Melbourne, Victoria”
  • Vietnamese: “Melbourne”
  • Vlax Romani: “Melbourne”
  • Volapük: “Melbourne”
  • Võro: “Melbourne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melbourne”
  • Welsh: “Melbourne”
  • Western Armenian: “Մելպուռն”
  • Western Frisian: “Melbourne”
  • Western Panjabi: “میلبورن”
  • Wu Chinese: “墨尔本”
  • Yakut: “Мельбурн”
  • Yiddish: “מעלבארן”
  • Yoruba: “Melbourne”
  • Yue Chinese: “新金山” (historical)
  • Yue Chinese: “墨爾本”
  • Zeeuws: “Melbourne”
  • Zhuang: “Melbourne”
  • “Melborns”
  • “Melbourne”
  • “Q3141”
  • “मेलबर्न”

Victoria: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, and Mildura.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.