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Orbost

town in Victoria, Australia
Place Town Q2028572

Facts

9 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, gazetted locality of Victoria[4]
Official name
Orbost[19]

Location

Country
Australia[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -37.700°, 148.450°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Victoria, Shire of East Gippsland[1][2]
Shares border with
Nurran, Marlo, Brodribb River, Newmerella, Yalmy, Jarrahmond[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Population
2.0k (2.0k–2.3k, n=6)[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 2,014 · 2,143 · 2,097 · 2,085 · 2,264 GeoNames 2,164 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
3888[11]
More facts +1
Associated electoral district
Gippsland East, Gippsland[20][21]
🏷️ Also known as
en Orbost en Orbost, Victoria en Orbost, Victoria, Australia ar أربست ar أوربست ar أوربوست fa آربوست he אורבוסט ja オーボスト ru Орбост
🔖 Identifiers · 15
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Orbost Club Hotel.jpg ↗
Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID
UCL215060, SSC21056
Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID
SSC22002, UCL215063
Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID
SAL22014, UCL215066
Curlie ID
Regional/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Localities/O/Orbost/
Freebase ID
/m/05tp2m
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1,593,292
GeoNames ID
2154208
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1097877
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2646112
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2154208
UN/LOCODE
AURBS
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VICNAMES Feature ID
102416
WOEID
1104836
Who's on First ID
101940375
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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🔗 Connections
People born here 5
Peter Nixon, Laura Jean McKay, Lindsay Tanner, Harry Firth, Tim Matthews
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Victoria, Shire of East Gippsland
Associated electoral district 1
Gippsland
Country 1
Australia
Instance of 1
town
Named after 1
Orbost Airport
← Place served by transport hub 1
Orbost Airport
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Cultural Significance

Things named for Orbost include Orbost Airport[22], an airport[23], in Australia[24].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Orbost include Orbost Airport[22], an airport[23], in Australia[24].

Related Entities

Australia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . censusdata.abs.gov.au. censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . abs.gov.au. Retrieved . abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . abs.gov.au. abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. 20h ago · Dev Jadiya · 2026-11-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed [hi] labels, descriptions or aliases: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #67916: Hindi Translation 04"
  2. 13d ago · CheWikibot bot · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Victoria, Shire of East Gippsland
    Country → Australia
    Instance of → town, gazetted locality of Victoria
    Associated electoral district → Gippsland East, Gippsland
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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