Wollongong

Heading south, Wollongong starts where finishes. It is the third largest city in behind Sydney and and is thinly wedged on a coastal plain between an escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, in the region.
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  • Type: City with 280,000 residents
  • Description: city in New South Wales, Australia
  • Also known as: “City of Greater Wollongong”, “Wollongong, New South Wales”, and “Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse and North Wollongong railway station.

Lighthouse
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, also known as Wollongong Harbour Lighthouse, is a historic lighthouse situated on the southern breakwater of the heritage-listed Wollongong Harbour, in Wollongong, in .

Railway station
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is located on the South Coast railway line in , Australia. It serves the Northern Wollongong suburb of North Wollongong, opening on 19 July 1915. It is the primary station for the University of Wollongong.

Railway station
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is a heritage-listed railway station on the South Coast railway line in , Australia. It serves the central business district of Wollongong. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Wollongong and Gwynneville.

Suburb
is the innermost western suburb of the coastal city of Wollongong, , . It is mainly a residential area, serviced by a small commercial strip with a music store, chicken shop, electric goods store and carpet store along the Princes Highway with several petrol stations, two restaurants, a liquor store, a chemist and a flower shop.

Suburb
is an inner city suburb of Wollongong, , located approximately 2 km north-west of the city centre. It was originally named Gwynne Ville after the Gwynne family who owned the property.

Suburb
is an inner suburb of the city of Wollongong, , in the region. It is situated in the foothills of , approximately three kilometres northwest of Wollongong.

Wollongong

Latitude
-34.4244° or 34° 25′ 28″ south
Longitude
150.8939° or 150° 53′ 38″ east
Population
280,000
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
IATA airport code
WOL
United Nations Location Code
AU WOL
Open location code
4RQGHVGV+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20920968
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2171507
Wiki­data ID
Q187861
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Wollongong” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wollongong”
  • Arabic: “ولونغونغ”
  • Armenian: “Վուլոնգոնգ”
  • Asturian: “Wollongong”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vullonqonq”
  • Balinese: “Wollongong”
  • Basque: “Wollongong”
  • Belarusian: “Вуланганг”
  • Bengali: “উলনগং”
  • Breton: “Wollongong”
  • Bulgarian: “Уулонгонг”
  • Catalan: “Wollongong”
  • Cebuano: “Wollongong”
  • Central Kurdish: “وۆڵۆنگانگ”
  • Chinese: “五龍崗”
  • Chinese: “五龙岗”
  • Chinese: “伍伦贡”
  • Chinese: “伍倫貢”
  • Chinese: “伍龙岗”
  • Chinese: “卧龙岗（新南威尔士州）”
  • Chinese: “卧龙岗”
  • Chinese: “卧龙岗市”
  • Chinese: “沃隆岡”
  • Chinese: “臥龍崗”
  • Croatian: “Wollongong”
  • Czech: “Wollongong”
  • Danish: “Wollongong”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wollongong, Gallera Verociya Newi”
  • Dutch: “Wollongong, New South Wales”
  • Dutch: “Wollongong”
  • Esperanto: “Vulongongo”
  • Esperanto: “Wollongong”
  • Finnish: “Wollongong”
  • French: “Wollongong”
  • Georgian: “ვულონგონგი”
  • German: “Wollongong”
  • Greek: “Γούλονγκονγκ”
  • Greek: “Γουόλονγκονγκ”
  • Gujarati: “વોલોંગોંગ”
  • Hebrew: “גונג (קיצור)”
  • Hebrew: “וולוונגונג, אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “וולוונגונג, ניו סאות‘ ויילס”
  • Hebrew: “וולונגונג (ניו סאות‘ ויילס)”
  • Hebrew: “וולונגונג, ניו סאות‘ ויילס”
  • Hebrew: “וולונגונג”
  • Hindi: “वोलांग”
  • Hindi: “वोलोंगोंग”
  • Hungarian: “Wollongong”
  • Indonesian: “Wollongong, New South Wales”
  • Indonesian: “Wollongong”
  • Interlingue: “Wollongong”
  • Irish: “Wollongong”
  • Italian: “Wollongong, New South Wales”
  • Italian: “Wollongong”
  • Japanese: “ウーロンゴン”
  • Japanese: “ウォロンゴン”
  • Japanese: “ウロンゴン”
  • Javanese: “Wollongong”
  • Kannada: “ವಲೊಂಗೊಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Вуллонгонг”
  • Korean: “울런공”
  • Korean: “울릉공”
  • Latvian: “Vollonona”
  • Latvian: “Vulongonga”
  • Literary Chinese: “臥龍崗 (新南威爾斯州)”
  • Lithuanian: “Volongongas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vulongongas”
  • Lithuanian: “Wollongong”
  • Macedonian: “Волонгонг”
  • Malagasy: “Wollongong”
  • Malay: “Wollongong”
  • Maori: “Wūronikongi”
  • Marathi: “वूलाँगाँग”
  • Mongolian: “Вуллонгон”
  • Mongolian: “Вуллонгонг”
  • Nauru: “Wollongong”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wollongong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wollongong”
  • Norwegian: “Wollongong”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੋਲੋਂਗੋਂਗ”
  • Persian: “ولنگانگ”
  • Persian: “ولونگونگ”
  • Polish: “Wollongong”
  • Portuguese: “Wollongong”
  • Pushto: “ولونګونګ”
  • Romanian: “Wollongong”
  • Russian: “Воллонгонг”
  • Russian: “Вуллонгонг”
  • Russian: “Уоллонгонг”
  • Sanskrit: “वोलोंगोंग”
  • Sanskrit: “वोलोङ्गोङ्ग”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wollongong”
  • Scots: “Wollongong”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wollongong”
  • Serbian: “Volongong”
  • Serbian: “Wollongong”
  • Serbian: “Волонгонг”
  • Serbian: “Вулонгонг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wollongong”
  • Silesian: “Wollongong”
  • Sinhala: “වොලන්ග්වෝ”
  • Slovak: “Wollongong”
  • Slovenian: “Wollongong”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وولونقونق”
  • Spanish: “Wollongong (Nueva Gales del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Wollongong”
  • Swedish: “Wollongong”
  • Tajik: “Вуллонгонг”
  • Tamil: “ஒலங்காங்”
  • Tatar: “Вуллогоң”
  • Telugu: “ఊలాన్గాంగ్”
  • Thai: “วุลลองกอง”
  • Tok Pisin: “Wulongong”
  • Turkish: “Wollongong”
  • Ukrainian: “Вуллонгонг”
  • Ukrainian: “Вуллонґонґ”
  • Urdu: “وولونگونگ”
  • Venetian: “Wollongong”
  • Vietnamese: “Wollongong, New South Wales”
  • Vietnamese: “Wollongong”
  • Volapük: “Wollongong”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wollongong, New South Wales”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wollongong”
  • Welsh: “Wollongong”
  • Western Panjabi: “وولونگونگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “沃隆冈 (新南威尔士州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “沃隆冈（新南威尔士州）”
  • Yakut: “Уоллонгонг”
  • Yue Chinese: “臥龍崗”
  • “Wollongong”

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