Woomera

Woomera is a small town in , situated 483 kilometres north of . It is a military owned town and testing site with a current population of about 300.
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  • Type: Town with 132 residents
  • Description: town in South Australia
  • Also known as: Woomera Prohibited Area”, “Woomera Village”, “Woomera, South Australia”, and “Woomera, South Australia, Australia

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pimba.

Town
is a small settlement lying on the transcontinental railway line in the state of . It lies at the junction of the Stuart Highway to and the road to Woomera, and . is situated 7 km south of Woomera.

Woomera

Latitude
-31.1999° or 31° 11′ 60″ south
Longitude
136.8254° or 136° 49′ 31″ east
Population
132
Elevation
146 metres (479 feet)
IATA airport code
UMR
United Nations Location Code
AU UMR
Open location code
4QWRRR2G+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2283680461
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2057826
Wiki­data ID
Q11068811
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Woomera” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ووميرا
  • Asturian: Woomera Village
  • Basque: Woomera (Hegoaldeko Australia)
  • Basque: Woomera
  • Belarusian: Вумэра
  • Catalan: Woomera
  • Cebuano: Woomera
  • Chinese: 伍麥拉
  • Chinese: 伍默拉
  • Chinese: 烏馬拿
  • Dutch: Woomera, South Australia
  • Egyptian Arabic: ووميرا
  • French: Woomera
  • German: Woomera
  • Hebrew: וומרה
  • Italian: Woomera
  • Japanese: ウーメラ (南オーストラリア州)
  • Japanese: ウーメラ
  • Persian: وومرا، استرالیای جنوبی
  • Polish: Woomera (Australia Południowa)
  • Polish: Woomera
  • Portuguese: Woomera Test Range
  • Portuguese: Woomera
  • Russian: Вумера
  • Spanish: Woomera
  • Swedish: Woomera
  • Ukrainian: Вумера

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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 “Woomera”. Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.