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Gippsland, Victoria

Gippsland Region
Victoria
Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898.jpg
John Longstaff's Gippsland, Sunday night, 20 February 1898, depicting the "Red Tuesday" bushfires that ravaged Gippsland
Port Welshpool, Victoria.jpg
Waterfront at Port Albert.
Gippsland Region is located in Victoria
Gippsland Region
Gippsland Region
The location of Bairnsdale, a town in Gippsland
Coordinates 37°51′S 147°35′E / 37.850°S 147.583°E / -37.850; 147.583Coordinates: 37°51′S 147°35′E / 37.850°S 147.583°E / -37.850; 147.583
Population 255,718 (2011 census)
 • Density 6.15358/km2 (15.93769/sq mi)
Area 41,556 km2 (16,044.9 sq mi)
Time zone AEST (UTC+10)
 • Summer (DST) AEDT (UTC+11)
Location 120 km (75 mi) E of Melbourne
LGA(s)
State electorate(s)
Federal Division(s)
Localities around Gippsland Region:
Hume Hume New South Wales
Greater Melbourne Gippsland Region Tasman Sea
Bass Strait Bass Strait Bass Strait
Regions of
Gippsland
East
West
South
Central
Latrobe Valley

Gippsland is an economic rural region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-eastern part of that state. It covers an area of 41,556 square kilometres (16,045 sq mi), and lies to the east of the eastern suburbs of Greater Melbourne, to the north of Bass Strait, to the west of the Tasman Sea, to the south of the Black-Allan Line that marks part of the Victorian/New South Wales border, and to the east and southeast of the Great Dividing Range that lies within the Hume region and the Victorian Alps. Gippsland is generally broken down into the East Gippsland, South Gippsland, West Gippsland, and the Latrobe Valley statistical divisions.

As at the 2011 Australian census, Gippsland had a population of 255,718, with the principal population centres of the region, in descending order of population, being Traralgon, Moe, Warragul, Morwell, Sale, Bairnsdale, Drouin, Leongatha, and Phillip Island. Gippsland is best known for its primary production such as mining, power generation and farming as well as its tourist destinations— Phillip Island, Wilsons Promontory, the Gippsland Lakes, Walhalla, the Baw Baw Plateau, and the Strzelecki Ranges.


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