New South Wales
Central West
Parkes Shire

Parkes

Parkes is in town and service centre in . Its main claim to fame has traditionally been the large radio telescope located just outside the town.
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  • Type: Town with 9,830 residents
  • Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
  • Also known as: “Parkes, Australia”, “Parkes, New South Wales”, and “Parkes, New South Wales, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parkes railway station and Kelly Reserve.

Railway station
Photo: Amanda Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a heritage-listed former locomotive depot and railway station and now locomotive roundhouse and railway station located on the Broken Hill line in May Street, Parkes in , Australia.

Park
Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY 3.0.
is a park.

Reservoir
Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY 3.0.
is a reservoir.

Parkes

Latitude
-33.1368° or 33° 8′ 13″ south
Longitude
148.1755° or 148° 10′ 32″ east
Population
9,830
Elevation
335 metres (1,099 feet)
IATA airport code
PKE
United Nations Location Code
AU PKE
Open location code
4RRCV57G+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 113708225
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2153778
Wiki­data ID
Q605513
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Parkes” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باركس”
  • Asturian: “Parkes”
  • Basque: “Parkes (Hegoaldeko Gales Berria)”
  • Basque: “Parkes”
  • Cebuano: “Parkes”
  • Chinese: “帕克斯”
  • Czech: “Parkes”
  • Dutch: “Parkes”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باركس”
  • Finnish: “Parkes”
  • French: “Parkes”
  • German: “Parkes”
  • Italian: “Parkes”
  • Japanese: “パークス (ニューサウスウェールズ州)”
  • Malagasy: “Parkes”
  • Persian: “پارکس، نیو ساوت ولز”
  • Polish: “Parkes”
  • Portuguese: “Parkes”
  • Russian: “Паркс”
  • Slovak: “Parkes”
  • Slovenian: “Parkes”
  • Spanish: “Parkes”
  • Swedish: “Parkes, New South Wales”
  • Swedish: “Parkes”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕克斯（新南威尔士州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕克斯”
  • “Parkes”

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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 “Parkes”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.