Regions of Victoria

The regions of Victoria vary according to the different ways that the

In addition to Greater Melbourne, the Victoria State Government has divided Victoria into five regions covering all parts of the state. The five regions are:^[1]

1. Barwon South West region
2. Gippsland region
3. Grampians region
4. Hume region
5. Loddon Mallee region

Barwon South West region

The Barwon South West region stretches from the tip of the Queenscliff Heads to the border of South Australia. It is home to Victoria’s largest provincial centre, Geelong. The region includes the local government areas of Colac Otway, Corangamite, Glenelg, Greater Geelong, Moyne, Queenscliffe, Southern Grampians, Surf Coast and Warrnambool City.^[2]

Gippsland region

The

The

The

The approximately 80 local government areas of Victoria are grouped into 17 regions also known by the ABS as "statistical areas level 4".[7] The non-Melbourne areas are: North West, Warrnambool and South West, Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong, Shepparton, Hume, Latrobe - Gippsland, Mornington Peninsula. Melbourne is divided into: Melbourne - Inner, Melbourne - Inner East, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne - North East, Melbourne - North West, Melbourne - Outer East, Melbourne - South East, Melbourne - West.

Electoral regions

There are 8 electoral regions, which are used to form the Victorian Legislative Council. They are:

Meteorological regions

The

The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia places parts of Victoria in the following bioregions, some of which are wholly contained with the state, and others that cover two or more states and territories.^[9]

• Australian Alps bioregion – most notably the Victorian Alps sub-bioregion
• Furneaux bioregion – most notably the Wilsons Promontory sub-bioregion
• Wimmera
  sub-bioregions
• Naracoorte Coastal Plain bioregion – including parts of the Glenelg Plain
  sub-bioregion
• NSW South Western Slopes bioregion – including parts of the Lower Slopes
  sub-bioregion
• Riverina bioregion – most notably the Victorian Riverina and parts of the Robinvale Plains sub-bioregions
• South East Coastal Plain bioregion
• South East Corner bioregion – including parts of the East Gippsland Lowlands and Bateman sub-bioregions
• South Eastern Highlands bioregion – most notably the Otway Ranges, Strzelecki Ranges, and parts of the Highlands-Southern Fall sub-bioregions
• Southern Volcanic Plain bioregion – most notably the Victorian Volcanic Plain sub-bioregion
• Victorian Midlands bioregion

Fire districts

The Country Fire Authority (CFA) divides Victoria into nine fire districts. From west to east, and north to south: Mallee, Wimmera, South West, Northern Country, North Central, Central, North East, East Gippsland, West & South Gippsland.^[10]

Other regional terms

A number of other regional terms are used to define certain areas, although their exact boundaries are unclear. For example:

• The area that embraces Greater Melbourne is sometimes referred to as
  Goldfields
  , the Spa Country, the Central Coast, and the Bass Coast.
• In the Northern Country/North Central region, the terms Central Murray, Lower Goulburn, Goulburn Valley, Upper Goulburn and Southern Riverina are sometimes used.
• In the Northeast region, the terms Victorian Alps, Upper Murray, Victorian High Country, Alpine region, Victorian Snowfields, Australian Alps, and Bogong High Plains are sometimes used.
• Within the Gippsland region, the terms East Gippsland, West Gippsland, South Gippsland, Central Gippsland, Gippsland Lakes, Central Gippsland Coast, East Gippsland Coast, and the Victorian Alps (overlapped with the Northeast region) are sometimes used.
• In the Western District of Victoria, the terms Central Highlands/Tablelands, the Pyrenees, The Grampians, and the Goldfields and the Spa Country (both overlapped with Central Victoria) are sometimes used.
• In the Southwest region, the terms
  The Otways, West Coast, Shipwreck Coast, Great Ocean Road
  , and the Surf Coast are sometimes used.
• In the Northwest region, the terms
  The Wimmera
  are sometimes used.

• Cadastral divisions of Victoria
• Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia

References

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