Hume (region)

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This article is about the region in Victoria. For the local government area in Victoria, see City of Hume. For the local government area in New South Wales, see Greater Hume Shire.
Hume
Victoria
Population 300,000 (approx.; 2012)[1]
 • Density 7.5/km2 (19/sq mi)
Area 40,000 km2 (15,444.1 sq mi)[1]
LGA(s)
Website www.rdv.vic.gov.au/victorian-regions/hume
Localities around Hume:
New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales
Mallee Hume Gippsland
Central Highlands Greater Melbourne Gippsland

The Hume region is one of the five non-metropolitan administrative regions of the Australian state of Victoria.[2] Comprising an area in excess of 40,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi) with approximately 300,000 residents in 2012,[1] the Hume region includes the Alpine, Benalla Rural City, City of Wodonga, Greater Shepparton City, Indigo, Mansfield, Strathbogie, Towong, and Wangaratta Rural City local government areas.

The Hume region is located in northeast Victoria along the two major interstate transport corridors – the Hume corridor and the Goulburn Valley corridor. The region comprises four distinct and inter-connected sub-regions: Upper Hume, Central Hume, Goulburn Valley, and Lower Hume. The regional cities and centres of Wodonga, Shepparton and Wangaratta (supported by Benalla) function as a network of regional hubs that service their own distinct sub-regions. The region is bounded by the Victorian Alps in the south and east, the New South Wales border in the north, the Loddon Mallee region in the west and the Greater Melbourne northern, western, and eastern metropolitan and Gippsland regions to the south.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hume Region Local Government Network; Hume Regional Management Forum; Hume Regional Development Australia Committee (August 2012). "State of the Hume Region 2010–2012" (PDF). Urban Development Division, Department of Planning and Community Development, Government of Victoria. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-921940-57-6. Retrieved 21 January 2014. 
  2. ↑ "Victorian Regions". Regional Development Victoria. Government of Victoria. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2014. 
  3. ↑ "Hume Regional Growth Plan". Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure, Government of Victoria. 5 August 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2014. 

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