Dandenong is a city (also classified rarely as a suburb) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 30 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Greater Dandenong. At the 2006 Census, Dandenong had a population of 16,729.
Once an independent city, it was absorbed by metropolitan Melbourne as its urban sprawl extended south east along the railway and freeway corridors during the late 1960s, while it...
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Dandenong is a city (also classified rarely as a suburb) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 30 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Greater Dandenong. At the 2006 Census, Dandenong had a population of 16,729.
Once an independent city, it was absorbed by metropolitan Melbourne as its urban sprawl extended south east along the railway and freeway corridors during the late 1960s, while it maintains a distinctive identity and character. The city is situated on Dandenong Creek in the flat land at the foothills of Mount Dandenong and is a major manufacturing and commercial area, with the Dandenong CBD one of the largest activity centres outside of central Melbourne.
Dandenong has been compared with the Sydney suburb/city of Parramatta.
Dandenong is a highly multicultural city, with approximately 55.5% of residents born overseas from 156 different birthplaces and 51% from non-English speaking backgrounds. Significant ethnic groups...
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