City of Richmond

For the steamship City of Richmond, see PS Avalon.
For other uses, see Richmond (disambiguation).

City of Richmond
Local government area
Location in Melbourne
Richmond Town Hall
The extent of the City of Richmond at its dissolution in 1994
CountryAustralia
StateVictoria
RegionInner Melbourne
Established1855
Council seatRichmond
Area
 • Total
6.12 km2 (2.36 sq mi)
Population
 • Total22,900 (1992)
 • Density3,742/km2 (9,691/sq mi)
CountyBourke
LGAs around City of Richmond
Collingwood Northcote Kew
Melbourne City of Richmond Hawthorn
Melbourne Prahran Malvern

The City of Richmond was a local government area about 2 kilometres (1 mi) east of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 6.12 square kilometres (2.36 sq mi), and existed from 1855 until 1994.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.