City of Greater Bendigo
City of Greater Bendigo | |||||||||||||
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Location in Victoria | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
| Region | Loddon Mallee | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Bendigo | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Mayor | Thomas Prince | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 3,000 km2 (1,200 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 121,470 (2021) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 40/km2 (105/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Gazetted | 7 April 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Website | City of Greater Bendigo | ||||||||||||
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The City of Greater Bendigo is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of 3,000 square kilometres (1,200 mi2) and, in August 2021, had a population of 121,470. It includes the city of Bendigo and the towns of Axedale, Elmore, Heathcote, Marong, Raywood and Strathfieldsaye. It is the state's third largest economy base and is considered a service and infrastructure centre for north central Victoria. The city is surrounded by 40,000 hectares of regional, state and national parkland.
The city is governed and administered by the Greater Bendigo City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Bendigo, it also has service centres located in Heathcote, Huntly, Marong and a couple of other locations within Bendigo. The city is named after the main urban settlement lying in the centre-west of the LGA, that is Bendigo, which is also the LGA's most populous urban area with a population of 99,122.