City of Bankstown
City of Bankstown | |||||||||||||
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Location in Metropolitan Sydney | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 33°55′S 151°02′E / 33.917°S 151.033°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| Region | Inner West | ||||||||||||
| Established | 7 September 1895 | ||||||||||||
| Abolished | 12 May 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Bankstown | ||||||||||||
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| • Mayor | Khal Asfour | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
• Total | 76.8 km2 (29.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 193,398 (2011 census) (15th) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 2,374/km2 (6,150/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+11 (AEDT) | ||||||||||||
| Website | City of Bankstown | ||||||||||||
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The City of Bankstown was a local government area in the south-west region of Sydney, Australia, centred on the suburb of Bankstown, from 1895 to 2016. The last mayor of the City of Bankstown Council was Clr Khal Asfour, a member of the Labor Party.
A 2015 review of local government boundaries by the NSW Government Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal recommended that the City of Bankstown merge with the City of Canterbury to form a new council with an area of 110 square kilometres (42 sq mi) and support a population of approximately 351,000. On 12 May 2016, the NSW Government announced that Bankstown would merge with the City of Canterbury to be known as the City of Canterbury-Bankstown.