Tasmania

Tasmania is the island state of , southeast of the mainland. Tasmania encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th largest island in the world, and over 1000 smaller islands, both inhabited and uninhabited.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Hobart and Bass Strait Islands.

is the capital city of Tasmania and is Australia's second oldest city, after . sits along the Derwent River and began humbly as a penal colony.

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The are a group of islands between the states of and Tasmania in .

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is the second-largest city in Tasmania 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.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Southern Tasmania and Western Tasmania.

is often an alternative name for Hobart and surrounds in the island state of Tasmania. can be an entry point for many who travel by air to Hobart, where the airport is known as Hobart International Airport.

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is the western part of Tasmania, encompassing both West Coast and Northwest Tasmania. For the purposes of this article, this article also includes the Central Highlands.

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encompasses much of the East Coast and the North Coast east of the Tamar River in Tasmania.

The Tasmanian Wilderness is a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering nearly a quarter of the state and one of the last expanses of temperate wilderness in the world.

is an island in , belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania. It is the largest of four islands known as the and the second-largest island in Bass Strait.

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is an island in the between the island of Tasmania and Victoria. It is the largest of the 78 islands in the Furneaux Group Of Islands.

Tasmania

Latitude of center
-42.0351° or 42° 2′ 6″ south
Longitude of center
146.6367° or 146° 38′ 12″ east
Population
571,000
Elevation
1,009 metres (3,310 feet)
Abbreviation
“TAS”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304951008
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2147291
Wiki­data ID
Q34366
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Tasmania” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: Tasmania
  • Afrikaans: Tasmania
  • Afrikaans: Tasmanië
  • Albanian: Tasmania
  • Amharic: ታዝሜኒያ
  • Arabic: تاسمانيا
  • Arabic: تسمانيا
  • Arabic: تسمانية
  • Arabic: جزيرة تاسمانيا
  • Arabic: جزيرة تسمانيا
  • Arabic: ولاية تسمانيا
  • Aragonese: Tasmania
  • Armenian: Թասմանիա
  • Asturian: Tasmania
  • Azerbaijani: Tasmaniya
  • Balinese: Tasmania
  • Bashkir: Тасмания
  • Basque: Tasmania
  • Bavarian: Tasmanien
  • Belarusian: Востраў Тасманія
  • Belarusian: Тасманія
  • Bengali: তাসমানিয়া
  • Bhojpuri: तस्मानिया
  • Bosnian: Tasmanija
  • Breton: Tasmania
  • Bulgarian: Земя на Ван Димен
  • Bulgarian: Тасмания
  • Burmese: တက်စမေးနီးယားကျွန်း
  • Burmese: တက်စ‌မေးနီးယားကျွန်း
  • Catalan: Illa de Tasmània
  • Catalan: Tasmania
  • Catalan: Tasmània
  • Cebuano: State of Tasmania
  • Central Kurdish: تاسمانیا
  • Cherokee: ᏔᏍᎺᏂᎠ
  • Chinese: Tasmania
  • Chinese: 塔州
  • Chinese: 塔斯曼尼亚
  • Chinese: 塔斯曼尼亞
  • Chinese: 塔斯曼尼亞州
  • Chinese: 塔斯馬尼亞
  • Chinese: 塔斯馬尼亞島
  • Chinese: 塔斯馬尼亞州
  • Chinese: 塔斯马尼亚岛
  • Chinese: 塔斯马尼亚州
  • Chinese: 范迪门斯地
  • Corsican: Tasmania
  • Croatian: Tasmanija
  • Czech: ISO 3166-2:AU-TAS
  • Czech: Tasmánie
  • Czech: Van Diemenova země
  • Czech: Země Van Diemena
  • Danish: Tasmanien
  • Dimli (individual language): Tazmaniya
  • Dimli (individual language): Tazmanya
  • Dutch: Tasmania
  • Dutch: Tasmanie
  • Dutch: Tasmanië
  • Egyptian Arabic: تسمانيا
  • Esperanto: Tasmania
  • Esperanto: Tasmanio
  • Estonian: Tasmaania
  • Faroese: Tasmania
  • Fiji Hindi: Tasmania
  • Fijian: Tasimenia
  • Finnish: Tasmania
  • Finnish: Van Diemenin maa
  • French: Tasmania
  • French: Tasmanie
  • French: Tazmanie
  • French: Terre de Diemen
  • French: Terre de Diémen
  • French: Terre de Van Diemen
  • French: Terre de Van Diémen
  • French: Van Diemen’s Land
  • Galician: Tasmania
  • Georgian: ტასმანია
  • Georgian: ტასმანიის შტატი
  • German: AU-TAS
  • German: AU-TS
  • German: Tasmanien
  • German: Van-Diemens-Land
  • German: Vandiemensland
  • Greek: Τασμανία
  • Gujarati: તાસ્માનિયા
  • Haitian: Tasmani
  • Hakka Chinese: Tasmania
  • Hawaiian: Kakamania
  • Hebrew: טאסמאניה
  • Hebrew: טאסמניה
  • Hebrew: טזמניה
  • Hebrew: טסמאניה
  • Hebrew: טסמניה
  • Hindi: टासमानिया
  • Hindi: टैज़मेनिया
  • Hindi: तस्मानिया
  • Hungarian: Tasmania
  • Hungarian: Tasmánia
  • Hungarian: Van Diemen-föld
  • Icelandic: Tasmanía
  • Ido: Tasmania
  • Indonesian: Tasmania
  • Interlingua: Tasmania
  • Interlingue: Tasmania
  • Irish: an Tasmáin
  • Irish: An Tasmáin
  • Irish: Tasmania
  • Italian: Tasmania
  • Italian: Tasmaniani
  • Japanese: タスマニア
  • Japanese: タスマニア島
  • Japanese: タスマニア州
  • Japanese: タズメイニア州
  • Kabyle: Tasmanya
  • Kannada: ಟ್ಯಾಸ್ಮೆನಿಯಾ
  • Karachay-Balkar: Тасмания
  • Kazakh: Тасман аралы
  • Kazakh: Тасмания
  • Kirghiz: Тасмания
  • Korean: 타스마니아
  • Korean: 타스마니아주
  • Korean: 타즈마니아
  • Korean: 타즈마니어
  • Korean: 태즈매니아 섬
  • Korean: 태즈매니아 주
  • Korean: 태즈매니아
  • Korean: 태즈메이니아 섬
  • Korean: 태즈메이니아
  • Korean: 태즈메이니아주
  • Korean: 태즈메이니어 섬
  • Korean: 태즈메이니어
  • Korean: 테즈메이니아
  • Korean: 테즈메이니어 주
  • Kurdish: Tasmanya
  • Latin: Tasmania
  • Latvian: Tasmanija
  • Latvian: Tasmānija
  • Ligurian: Tasmania
  • Limburgan: Tasmanië
  • Lithuanian: Tasmanija
  • Lithuanian: Tasmanijos sala
  • Lithuanian: Van Diemeno Žemė
  • Lithuanian: Van Dimeno Žemė
  • Lithuanian: Van Dymeno Žemė
  • Lombard: Tasmania
  • Luxembourgish: Tasmanien
  • Macedonian: Тасманија
  • Malagasy: Tasmania
  • Malay: Tasmania
  • Malayalam: Tasmania
  • Malayalam: ടാസ്മാനിയ
  • Malayalam: ടാസ്മേനിയ
  • Malayalam: താസ്മാനിയ
  • Maltese: Tażmanja
  • Manx: Yn Tasmaan
  • Maori: Tāhimania
  • Maori: Tāhimeinia
  • Maori: Tāhimenia
  • Marathi: टास्मानिया
  • Marathi: तास्मानिया
  • Mazanderani: تاسمانی جزیره
  • Min Dong Chinese: Tasmania
  • Min Nan Chinese: Tasmania
  • Mingrelian: ტასმანიაშ შტატი
  • Mongolian: Тасмани
  • Moroccan Arabic: طازمانيا
  • Nepali: ट्याज्मानिया
  • Nepali: तस्मानिया
  • Northern Frisian: Tasmaanien
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tasmania
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tasmaniar
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tasmanier
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Van Diemen’s Land
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Van Diemens Land
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Tasmania
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Van Diemens land
  • Norwegian: Tasmania
  • Occitan (post 1500): Tasmania
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Tasmania
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Tasmanie
  • Oriya: ଟାସମାନିଆ
  • Ossetian: Тасмани
  • Pampanga: Tasmania
  • Panjabi: ਤਸਮਾਨੀਆ
  • Persian: تاسمانی
  • Persian: تاسمانیا
  • Persian: جزیره تاسمانی
  • Persian: جزیرهٔ تاسمانی
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: TAS
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Tasmainya
  • Polish: Tasmania
  • Portuguese: Tasmania
  • Portuguese: Tasmânia
  • Pushto: تاسماني
  • Romanian: Tasmania
  • Romansh: Tasmania
  • Russian: Вандименова земля
  • Russian: Земля Ван-Димена
  • Russian: Тасмания
  • Russian: Штат Тасмания
  • Samoan: Tasimania
  • Samoan: Tasmania
  • Santali: ᱴᱟᱥᱢᱟᱱᱤᱭᱟ
  • Sardinian: Tasmània
  • Saterfriesisch: Tasmanien
  • Scots: Tasmainie
  • Scots: Tasmanie
  • Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Thasman
  • Scottish Gaelic: Tasmania
  • Serbian: AU-TAS
  • Serbian: TAS
  • Serbian: Tasmania
  • Serbian: Тасманија
  • Serbo-Croatian: Tasmania
  • Serbo-Croatian: Tasmanija
  • Sicilian: Tasmania
  • Silesian: Tasmańijo
  • Sindhi: تسمانيا
  • Sinhala: ටස්මෙනියා
  • Sinhala: ටැස්මේනියාව
  • Slovak: Tasmánia
  • Slovenian: Tasmanija
  • Slovenian: Van Diemnova dežela
  • Somali: Tasmaniya
  • South Azerbaijani: تاسمانی
  • Spanish: Estado de Tasmania
  • Spanish: Tasmana
  • Spanish: Tasmania
  • Spanish: Tasmanos
  • Spanish: Van Diemen
  • Swahili: Tasmania
  • Swedish: Tasmania
  • Swedish: Tasmanien
  • Swedish: Tasmansk
  • Swedish: Van Deimens Land
  • Swedish: Van Diemen’s Land
  • Swedish: Van Diemens land
  • Swiss German: Tasmanie
  • Tagalog: Tasmania
  • Tagalog: Tasmanian
  • Tagalog: Tasmaniano
  • Tagalog: Tasmanya
  • Tagalog: Tasmanyana
  • Tagalog: Tasmanyano
  • Tagalog: Tasmanyo
  • Tamil: டாஸ்மானியா
  • Tamil: டாஸ்மேனியா
  • Tamil: தசுமேனியா
  • Tamil: தஸ்மேனியா
  • Tamil: தாசுமேனியா
  • Tamil: தாஸ்மானியா
  • Tamil: தாஸ்மேனியா
  • Tatar: Тасмания
  • Telugu: టాస్మానియా
  • Thai: Tasmania
  • Thai: เกาะทัสมาเนีย
  • Thai: เกาะแทสเมเนีย
  • Thai: แทสมาเนีย
  • Thai: รัฐแทสเมเนีย
  • Tibetan: ཐ་སི་མ་ནི་ཡཱ།
  • Tibetan: ཐ་སི་མ་ནི་ཡཱའི་
  • Tok Pisin: Tasmenia
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): Tasimania
  • Tosk Albanian: Tasmanien
  • Turkish: Tasmania
  • Turkish: Tasmanya
  • Turkish: Tazmanya
  • Ukrainian: Вандименова земля
  • Ukrainian: Острів Тасманія
  • Ukrainian: Тасманія
  • Urdu: تسمانیا
  • Uzbek: Tasmaniya
  • Vietnamese: Tasmania
  • Vlaams: Tasmanië
  • Waray (Philippines): Tasmania
  • Welsh: Tasmania
  • Western Frisian: Tasmaanje
  • Western Mari: Тасмани
  • Western Panjabi: تسمانیا
  • Western Panjabi: تسمانیہ
  • Wu Chinese: 塔斯马尼亚
  • Yakut: Тасмания
  • Yiddish: טאסמאניע
  • Yue Chinese: Tasmania
  • Yue Chinese: 塔斯曼尼亞
  • Yue Chinese: 塔斯曼尼亞州
  • Yue Chinese: 塔斯曼尼亞省
  • Yue Chinese: 塔斯馬尼亞省
  • ma Tamenija
  • तस्मानिया

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