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Geelong

city in Victoria, Australia
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Summary

Geelong is a city[1]. Geelong ranks in the top 5% of city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,851 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Creative Cities Network[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: City of Greater Geelong[4]
  • Country: Australia[5]
  • Instance of: big city[6]
  • Twinned administrative body: Athens[7]
  • Commons category: Geelong[8]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+10:00[9]
  • Local dialing code: 52[10]
  • Inception: 1838[11]
  • Official website: https://geelongaustralia.com.au[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Geelong[13]
  • Commons gallery: Geelong, Victoria[14]
  • Population: 184,182[15], 191,440[16], 180,239[17]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[19], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21]
  • Official name: Geelong[22]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Geelong[23]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Geelong[24]
  • Native label: Geelong[25]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Geelong[26]
  • Owner of: Kardinia Park[27]
  • Different from: Geelong[28]
  • Elevation above sea level: 14 m[29]
  • Area: 1240 km²[30]
  • Number of viewers/listeners: 1,028,950[31]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Geelong[32]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Geelong include Geelong Football Club[33], an Australian rules football club[34], in Australia[35], founded in 1859[36].

Why It Matters

Geelong has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Geelong is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Entities named for Geelong include Geelong Football Club[33], an Australian rules football club[34], in Australia[35], founded in 1859[36].

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . eu.onlineathens.com. eu.onlineathens.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . abs.gov.au. abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . abs.gov.au. abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Geelong
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    Yale lux id → place/3b81f604-81bc-44cb-a66e-007df81db347
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    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+1240'}
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