Katoomba
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Katoomba is the main town and council seat of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, and is the administrative centre of Blue Mountains City Council.
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Katoomba
- Australian place.state
- nsw
- Australian place.image
- Katoomba bm2.jpg
- Australian place.caption
- Katoomba Street, Katoomba commercial area
- Australian place.mapframe
- yes
- Australian place.lga
- City of Blue Mountains
- Australian place.county
- Cook
- Australian place.postcode
- 2780
- Australian place.est
- 1879
- Australian place.pop
- 8,268
- Australian place.elevation
- 1017
- Australian place.maxtemp
- 17.6
- Australian place.mintemp
- 8.3
- Australian place.rainfall
- 1309.2
- Australian place.stategov
- Blue Mountains
- Australian place.fedgov
- Macquarie
- Australian place.dist1
- 102
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- suburb
- Country
- Australia
- Population
- 8268
- Elevation
- 991
- Capital of
- City of Blue Mountains
- Image
- Katoomba 3.jpg
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- associated electoral district
- Macquarie
- Commons category
- Katoomba, New South Wales
- postal code
- 2780
- male population
- 3787
- female population
- 4180
- P12749
- Maria Reiter
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Climate
- Snowfall
- People and culture
- Demographics
- Tourism
- Transport
- Services
- Education
- Heritage listings
- References
- External links
Katoomba is the main town and council seat of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, and is the administrative centre of Blue Mountains City Council.
Situated on the Great Western Highway and the Great Western Railway, Katoomba is home to the Three Sisters, by road west of Sydney Central Business District and south-east of Lithgow. Katoomba railway station serves the town. Katoomba is located on the lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra Aboriginal peoples.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Katoomba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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