Lake Macquarie City
| City of Lake Macquarie | |
 Location of Lake Macquarie City in New South Wales |
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 Australia
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 New South Wales
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| Administrative headquarters: | Speers Point |
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| Area : | 648.6 km² |
| Residents : | 197,371 (2016) |
| Population density : | 304 inhabitants per km² |
| Wards : | 3 |
Coordinates: 33 ° 2 ′ S , 151 ° 38 ′ E The City of Lake Macquarie is a local government area (LGA) in the Australian state of New South Wales . The area is 648.6 km² and has about 197,000 inhabitants.
Lake Macquarie is located in the southern Hunter region on the Pacific coast about 150 km northeast of the metropolis of Sydney . The area includes 115 hamlets and hamlets, including Awaba, Belmont , Cardiff, Charlestown, Cooranbong, Dora Creek, Glendale, Killingworth, Martinsville, Morisset, Mount Hutton, Speers Point, Swansea, Toronto, Warners Bay and part of Wyee. The City Council is located at Speers Point at the north end of Lake Macquarie.
administration
Lake Macquarie City Council has 13 members who are elected by LGA residents. Four members each come from the three wards North, East and West, the chairman and mayor is also elected by all residents of the LGA. The three electoral districts are determined independently of the localities.
Web links
- Official site of the Lake Macquarie City Council
- Community Profile ( Memento from August 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Town twinning
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Hakodate , since 1992
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Lake Macquarie (C) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved May 12, 2020.