Castlemaine is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia, in the Goldfields region about 123 kilometers northwest of Melbourne and 39 kilometers from Bendigo. It serves as the administrative and economic center of the Shire of Mount Alexander and was named by the goldfield commissioner Captain W. Wright after his Irish uncle, Viscount Castlemaine. At the 2021 census it had a population of 7,506.
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1. Castlemaine, Victoria (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 7,506 (2021)
2. Castlemaine, Victoria (Wikipedia)
- Infobox, established
- In Group: Cities of Australia and New Zealand (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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