Belmont is a suburb of

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, the capital city of

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, and is located east of Perth's central business district (CBD) on the southern bank of the Swan River. Its

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is the

City of Belmont The City of Belmont is a local government area in the inner eastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about east of Perth's central business district on the south bank of the Swan River. The City covers an are ...

. The suburb, part of a land grant assigned to Captain Francis Henry Byrne in 1831, was believed to have been named Belmont after Byrne's estate in England. The land was purchased by Shepherd Smith of Sydney in 1882, who subdivided it in 1897–1898. The local government body based in Belmont was originally known as the Belmont Park Road Board. The suburb was known as "Belmont Park" until being renamed in 1968. Today, the suburb is mixed-use in character. The western part of the suburb is primarily industrial and commercial, while the east and north are more residential, with various motels and other accommodation along

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, which forms the suburb's north-western boundary. It contains two public schools—Belmont Primary School, and

Belmont City College Belmont City College is a comprehensive independent public co-educational high school, located in Belmont, east of Perth, Western Australia. Opening in 1957, the school's catchment area covers most of the City of Belmont and the eastern pa ...

(formerly Belmont Senior High School)—as well as Centenary Park, Signal Hill Bushland, the Belgravia Residential Estate and a section on the south bank of the Swan River. Belmont possesses a sister city partnership with

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in Japan, which has been in place since October 1984.https://www.belmont.wa.gov.au/live/community-groups/families,-children-and-young-people/belmont-sister-city-student-exchange-program

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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Belmont {{PerthAU-geo-stub