Footscray

Summary

Footscray is a suburb^[1]. Footscray ranks in the top 0.85% of suburb entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (196 views/month, #27 of 3,188).^[2]

Key Facts

• Footscray is located in City of Maribyrnong^[3].
• Footscray is located in Victoria^[4].
• Footscray is located in Melbourne^[5].
• Footscray is in the country of Australia^[6].
• Footscray's image is recorded as LonelyPlanetBuildingFootscray.jpg^[7].
• Footscray's instance of is recorded as suburb^[8].
• Footscray's instance of is recorded as gazetted locality of Victoria^[9].
• Footscray's shares border with is recorded as West Footscray^[10].
• Footscray's shares border with is recorded as Maidstone^[11].
• Footscray's shares border with is recorded as Ascot Vale^[12].
• Footscray's shares border with is recorded as Flemington^[13].
• Footscray's shares border with is recorded as Kensington^[14].
• Footscray's shares border with is recorded as West Melbourne^[15].
• Footscray's shares border with is recorded as Yarraville^[16].
• Footscray's shares border with is recorded as Seddon^[17].
• Footscray's shares border with is recorded as Maribyrnong^[18].
• Foots Cray is named after Footscray^[19].
• Footscray's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 140497062^[20].
• Footscray's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n82090293^[21].
• Footscray's postal code is recorded as 3011^[22].
• Footscray's Commons category is recorded as Footscray, Victoria^[23].
• Footscray's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 2399653^[24].
• Footscray's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -37.798, 'lon': 144.899}^[25].
• Footscray's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02wvk5^[26].
• Footscray's population is recorded as {'amount': '+16345'}^[27].

Body

Geography

Footscray is in the country of Australia^[6]. Located in include City of Maribyrnong^[3], a local government area of Victoria^[28], in Australia^[29], founded in 1994^[30]; Victoria^[4], a state of Australia^[31], in Australia^[32], founded in 1851^[33]; and Melbourne^[5], a city^[34], in Australia^[35], founded in 1835^[36].

Physical Characteristics

Footscray's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+27'}^[37]. Population counts include {'amount': '+16345'}^[27] and {'amount': '+17131'}^[38].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include suburb^[8] and gazetted locality of Victoria^[9].

History and Context

Foots Cray is named after Footscray^[19].

Why It Matters

Footscray ranks in the top 0.85% of suburb entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (196 views/month, #27 of 3,188).^[2] Footscray has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[39] Footscray is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[40]