Lilydale, Victoria
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Main Street (Maroondah Highway), Lilydale before train station redevelopment | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 37°45′29″S 145°21′00″E / 37.758°S 145.350°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
| City | Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 29.2 km2 (11.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 115 m (377 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 17,348 (2021 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 594.1/km2 (1,538.7/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 3140 | ||||||||||||
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Lilydale is an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 34 km east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Lilydale recorded a population of 17,348 at the 2021 census.
Situated in the Yarra Valley, it began as a town within the former Shire of Lillydale and is also notable as the burial site of Dame Nellie Melba (Lilydale Cemetery).
It is both a residential area of metropolitan Melbourne and an industrial area on the city's rural-urban fringe.