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Local government area in Queensland, Australia

Western Downs Region

Western Downs Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia.

Western Downs Region
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The place

Western Downs Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia. The Western Downs Regional Council manages an area of 37,937 square kilometres (14,648 sq mi), which is slightly smaller than Switzerland, although with a population of 34,467 in June 2018, it is over 228 times less densely populated.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Western Downs Region

4 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
    St John's Anglican Church, Dalby

    St John's Anglican Church is a heritage-listed church at 153 Cunningham Street, Dalby, Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the third church of that name on the site and was designed by Henry James Marks and built in the 1920s.

    100 m · church building in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dalby War Memorial and Gates

    Dalby War Memorial and Gates is a heritage-listed memorial at Patrick Street, Dalby, Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed and built in 1922 by Harry Shill and British firms.

    300 m · heritage-listed memorial · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dalby Town Council Chambers and Offices

    Dalby Town Council Chambers and Offices is a heritage-listed former town hall at 133 Cunningham Street, Dalby, Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Hall & Phillips and built in 1932.

    100 m · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Columba's Convent, Dalby

    St Columba's Convent is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic former convent at 169 Cunningham Street, Dalby, Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Bernard Roskell and built in 1913 by John Draney.

    400 m · historic site in Queensland, 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 Western Downs Region

Airports
Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 67 km · Brisbane (BNE), 184 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 192 km
Stations
Dalby Airport, 3.2 km · Dalby railway station, 900 m
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  • Brisbane → Western Downs Region
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Western Downs Region

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 Western Downs Region. 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
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    288 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,632 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,828 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,446 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,807 km

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

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