Gippsland, Victoria

Gippsland Region Victoria
John Longstaff's Gippsland, Sunday night, 20 February 1898, depicting the "Red Tuesday" bushfires that ravaged Gippsland
Waterfront at Port Albert.
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)	(by population) Latrobe Baw Baw East Gippsland Wellington Bass Coast South Gippsland
State electorate(s)	Bass Gippsland East Gippsland South Morwell Narracan
Federal Division(s)	Flinders (part) Gippsland McMillan
Localities around Gippsland Region: Hume Hume New South Wales Greater Melbourne Gippsland Region Tasman Sea Bass Strait Bass Strait Bass Strait

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.