Fremantle

Fremantle is a port on the western coast of , facing out into the Indian Ocean. Often referred to as Freo, it's not just a suburb or outgrowth of , but a city in its own right — it's where Western Australia got started.
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  • Type: Town with 8,620 residents
  • Description: port city in Western Australia
  • Also known as: Fremantle, Australia”, “Fremantle, W.A.”, “Fremantle, Western Australia”, “Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia”, “Freo”, and “Walyalup

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fremantle Prison and City of Fremantle.

Protected area
, sometimes referred to as Fremantle Gaol or Fremantle Jail, is a former Australian prison and World Heritage Site in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Government office
The is a local government area in the south of , Western Australia. The City covers an area of 19.0 square kilometres, and lies about 19 kilometres southwest of the Perth central business district.

Hospital
is an Australian public hospital situated on South Terrace in central Fremantle, a suburb of , Western Australia. It was formerly the major hospital in its region; however, with the opening of in

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Fremantle and White Gum Valley.

Suburb
is an affluent suburb of , Western Australia, located 13 kilometres south-west of the central business district. The suburb is mainly residential, and is coterminous with the local government area.

Suburb
is a suburb of , Western Australia located within the . It is situated behind the main ridge that lies east of Fremantle.

Suburb
is a suburb of , Western Australia, located within the . It was named after a property of the same name in the area in the 1880s; the name was officially adopted from the post office on 1 August 1894.

Fremantle

Latitude
-32.05341° or 32° 3′ 12″ south
Longitude
115.75862° or 115° 45′ 31″ east
Population
8,620
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
JFM
United Nations Location Code
AU FRE
Open location code
4PVQWQW5+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32519002
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2071223
Wiki­data ID
Q606212
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Fremantle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: فريمانتل
  • Arabic: فيرمنتال
  • Armenian: Ֆրիմանթլ
  • Asturian: Fremantle
  • Azerbaijani: Frimantl
  • Basque: Fremantle
  • Catalan: Fremantle
  • Cebuano: Fremantle
  • Chinese: (Fremantle)
  • Chinese: 弗里曼特爾
  • Chinese: 費利曼圖
  • Chinese: 費里曼圖
  • Croatian: Fremantle
  • Czech: Fremantle
  • Dutch: Fremantle
  • Esperanto: Fremantle
  • Estonian: Fremantle
  • Finnish: Fremantle
  • French: Freemantle
  • French: Fremantle
  • Georgian: ფრემენტლი
  • Georgian: ფრიმანტლი
  • German: Fremantle
  • Hebrew: פריאו (קיצור)
  • Hebrew: פרימנטל (אוסטרליה המערבית)
  • Hebrew: פרימנטל (אוסטרליה)
  • Hebrew: פרימנטל, אוסטרליה המערבית, אוסטרליה
  • Hebrew: פרימנטל, אוסטרליה המערבית
  • Hebrew: פרימנטל, אוסטרליה
  • Hebrew: פרימנטל
  • Hindi: फ़्रीमैन्टल
  • Hungarian: Fremantle
  • Indonesian: Fremantle, Australia Barat
  • Indonesian: Fremantle
  • Irish: Fremantle
  • Italian: Fremantle
  • Japanese: フリーマントル (西オーストラリア州)
  • Japanese: フリーマントル
  • Japanese: フリマントル
  • Korean: 프리맨틀
  • Lithuanian: Frimantlas
  • Macedonian: Фримантл
  • Malagasy: Fremantle
  • Malay: Fremantle
  • Marathi: फ्रीमँटल
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Fremantle
  • Norwegian: Fremantle
  • Persian: فریمنتل
  • Polish: Fremantle
  • Portuguese: Fremantle
  • Russian: Фремантл
  • Russian: Фримантл
  • Silesian: Fremantle
  • Slovak: Fremantle
  • Spanish: Fremantle (Australia)
  • Spanish: Fremantle
  • Swedish: Fremantle
  • Thai: ฟรีแมนเทิล
  • Turkish: Fremantle
  • Ukrainian: Фрімантл
  • Urdu: فریمانٹیل
  • Welsh: Fremantle
  • Yue Chinese: 費利曼圖
  • Fremantle

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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 “Fremantle”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.