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Suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Dandenong

Dandenong is a major suburban centre and Metropolitan Activity Centre in south-east Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about 29 km (18 mi) from the Melbourne CBD.

Dandenong
Dandenong · Miha Peče
The place

Dandenong is a major suburban centre and Metropolitan Activity Centre in south-east Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about 29 km (18 mi) from the Melbourne CBD. It is the administrative center of the City of Greater Dandenong and one of the largest commercial, employment, and transport hubs in metropolitan Melbourne. Positioned at the junction of major road, rail and freight networks, Dandenong serves as the principal center of Melbourne's south-east and a gateway between metropolitan Melbourne and Gippsland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dandenong

2 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
    Albanian Mosque, Dandenong

    The Albanian Mosque, also known as the Albanian Islamic Centre Mosque and Albanian Sakie Islamic Centre, is a mosque located in Dandenong, a south eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is one of the earliest mosques in the country.

    1.6 km · Albanian mosque in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Noble Park Secondary College

    Noble Park Secondary College is a secondary 7–12 co-educational school in Noble Park, Melbourne. According to the school, they have enrolled over 40 different nationalities into the school, with 44% of the students being born outside Australia.

    2.9 km · government, coeducation school in Noble Park, Victoria, 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.

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Getting to Dandenong

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 48 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 66 km
Stations
Yarraman, 2.1 km
  • Melbourne → Dandenong
    28 km · quickest by road, 47 min · A$4–5
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Dandenong
    23 km · quickest by road, 39 min · A$3–4.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Dandenong
    574 km · quickest by air, 5h 59m · A$250–370
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dandenong

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 Dandenong. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    617 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    750 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,604 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,029 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,240 km

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Around it

Next door to Dandenong

Dandenong is 29 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.