Giralang
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Giralang () is a suburb of the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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- Instance of
- suburb
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Belconnen
- Population
- 3372
- Shares border with
- McKellar
- Image
- Giralang aerial west.jpg
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- inception
- 1974-00-00
- Commons category
- Giralang, Australian Capital Territory
- postal code
- 2617
- male population
- 1647
- female population
- 1672
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Giralang () is a suburb of the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
The suburb is named after the word in the language of the Wiradhuri Aboriginal tribe of the Central West of New South Wales, meaning star. The suburb name was gazetted on 15 January 1974. Streets in Giralang are named after Aboriginal words for stars, astronomers and constellations seen from the southern hemisphere.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Giralang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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