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Bendigo is an important Australian city located very close to the center of the state of Victoria. It is located approximately 150 kilometers from Melbourne, being the second largest Mediterranean city and the fourth most populated city of Victoria. The estimated urban population amounts to 91,713. It is the administrative center of City of Greater Bendigo that includes both the urban area and the surrounding towns, covering an area of ​​approximately 3,000 square kilometers. Its inhabitants are known as Bendigonians. The original name of the city, comes from Bendigo Creek, which became official in 1891. Bendigo was one of the most important cities of the Victorian era in Australia, because there was discovered gold in 1851, at The Rocks, in the Glen Bendigo.

The Bendigo Valley is a non-flooded area, rich in this mineral that could be easily extracted. The news of new findings intensified the Victorian gold fever that, in a few years, attracted many immigrants from all over the world, especially Asians from China. As the British colonists settled in Australia prohibited the access of immigrants through the port of Melbourne, they had to go to a small port near Adelaide and from there to Bendigo in search of fortune. The immigrants, especially the Chinese people, contributed to transform the city, which in a short time passed from being a simple train station to an important economic center within the recently proclaimed Victoria Colony. Bendigo is a city notable for its Victorian architecture and its mining history.

Since 1851, more than 22 million ounces of gold were taken from their mines, making the city the largest mining center of the nineteenth century and the largest mining economy in eastern Australia. It is currently Victoria's largest financial center apart from Melbourne, as it is the seat of the only Australian bank outside the major capital cities: Bendigo Bank, and the Bendigo Stock Exchange.

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