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The City of Greater Geelong is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of and, at the 2011 Census, had a population of 210,875.〔 It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living in the Greater Geelong urban area, while other significant settlements within the LGA include Anakie, Balliang, Barwon Heads, Batesford, Ceres, Clifton Springs, Drysdale, Lara, Ocean Grove, Portarlington and St Leonards. It was formed in 1993 from the amalgamation of the Rural City of Bellarine, Shire of Corio, City of Geelong, City of Geelong West, City of Newtown, City of South Barwon, and parts of Shire of Barrabool and Shire of Bannockburn.〔 The City is governed and administered by the Greater Geelong City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Geelong, it also has service centres located in Drysdale, Ocean Grove and several other locations within Geelong. The City is named after the main urban settlement located in the centre-west of the LGA, that is Geelong, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 143,921. ==History of former municipalities== *1838 – Geelong (Aboriginal word for 'Ocean') region declared a town *1849 – Geelong incorporated as a town *1853 – Barrabool declared a road district *1854 – Bellarine declared a road district *1857 – South Barwon a separate district *1858 – Newtown and Chilwell a borough *1862 – Bannockburn a road district *1863 – Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale separates from Bellarine to form the Borough of Queenscliffe *1863 – South Barwon a borough *1864 – Corio and Bannockburn made shires *1865 – Bellarine a shire *1872 – South Barwon a shire *1875 – West Geelong a borough *1910 – Geelong a city *1915 – Meredith added to Bannockburn Shire *1922 – West Geelong a town *1924 – Newtown and Chilwell a town *1929 – West Geelong a city *1959 – Newtown and Chilwell a city *1967 – Newtown discarded Chilwell from its title as a city *1974 – South Barwon a city *1993 – City of Greater Geelong formed Sourced from Appendix V, ''A Journey to Destiny 1890–1990 – 100 Years of Cement Manufacturing at Fyansford by Australian Cement Limited ''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「City of Greater Geelong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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