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Birrong

Birrong is a suburb in South-western Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Birrong
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The place

Birrong is a suburb in South-western Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the local government area of City of Canterbury-Bankstown, and is located 22 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Birrong

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Auburn Gallipoli Mosque

    The Auburn Gallipoli Mosque is an Ottoman-style mosque in Auburn, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. More than 500 worshippers attend every day and around 2,000 worshippers attend the weekly special Friday prayer at the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque.

    3.1 km · mosque in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dunc Gray Velodrome

    Dunc Gray Velodrome is a velodrome located at Bass Hill approximately five kilometres north west of the Sydney suburb of Bankstown. The cycling venue for the 2000 Summer Olympics, the Dunc Gray Velodrome was opened on 28 November 1999 with an opening ceremony which included performances by local talent Darren Sharp and other community groups.

    2.8 km · Velodrome in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rookwood Necropolis

    Rookwood Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney, Australia. It is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere and is the world's largest remaining operating cemetery from the Victorian era.

    3.4 km · cemetery in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Al-Rasool Al-A'dham Mosque

    The Al-Rasool Al-A'dham Mosque is a Shia Islam mosque located in Bankstown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The mosque is supervised by Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein al-Ansari.

    3.4 km · mosque in Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sydney Durga Temple

    The Sydney Shri Durga Temple, commonly known as Sydney Durga Temple, is a Hindu temple at 21–23 Rose Crescent, Regents Park, New South Wales 2143, in Sydney. The temple is run by the Shri Durgadevi Devasthanam, a non-profit religious organisation.

    1.5 km · Hindu temple in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bankstown Oval

    Bankstown Oval is a multi-purpose stadium located in Bankstown, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches and has been used by New South Wales, particularly for one day matches.

    3.3 km · multi-purpose stadium in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Melita Stadium

    Melita Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is mainly used for football and is the home ground for Parramatta FC team and the Parramatta Ladyhawks Women's Super League team.

    2.8 km · in Chester Hill, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Bankstown Reservoir

    Bankstown Reservoir is a heritage-protected water tower and a local landmark situated in the Sydney suburb of Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. Located 22 kilometres west of Sydney CBD, the reservoir is elevated and was built on reinforced concrete piers, which is one of the oldest of this type that is still in use.

    2.1 km · Water tower in Bankstown, Sydney, NSW · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Bankstown City Library and Information Service

    Bankstown City Library and Information Service was a library service in Sydney. Bankstown situated in the south-west of Sydney, Australia.

    2.8 km · library system in New South Wales · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Centro Bankstown

    Bankstown Central is a shopping centre in the suburb of Bankstown in South Western Sydney.

    2.9 km · shopping mall in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Birrong

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 15 km · Newcastle (NTL), 143 km
Stations
Chester Hill railway station, 2.4 km · Lidcombe railway station, 3.8 km · Birrong railway station, 100 m · Leightonfield railway station, 3.8 km · Berala railway station, 2.5 km
  • Williamtown → Birrong
    142 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · A$21–28
  • Gold Coast → Birrong
    694 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · A$240–350
  • Melbourne → Birrong
    698 km · quickest by air, 5h 23m · A$240–360
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Birrong

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Birrong. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you are travelling out from the city towards the southwest for a day trip you'll be moving against the peak, and can expect a quick run on the motorway.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/South West, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    987 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,095 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,273 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,879 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,254 km

If you know how people move in Birrong – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Birrong

Birrong is 17 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bankstownsuburb of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia3.5 km
  • BeralaInner western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km
  • Regents Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia900 m
  • Bass Hillsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.7 km
  • Condell Parksuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia3.9 km
  • Chester Hillsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km