Barwon South West

{{about|the region in Victoria|the electorate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly|Electoral district of Barwon|other uses|Barwon (disambiguation){{!}}Barwon}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2014}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = region

| name = Barwon South West Region

| state = vic

| image = Australia Victoria Barwon South West region.svg

| caption =

| image2 = The twelve apostles Victoria Australia 2010.jpg

| caption2 = The Twelve Apostles on the southwest boundary of the region.

| coordinates = {{coord|38|23|S|142|29|E|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map_caption = The location of Warrnambool, a city in the Barwon South West region

| relief = yes

| pop = {{formatnum:360384}}

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2011}}

| pop_footnotes = Population figure is the combined population of all LGAs in the region

| est =

| area = 29146

| area_footnotes = Area figure is the combined population of all LGAs in the region

| lga = {{plainlist|

• (by population)
• Greater Geelong
• Warrnambool
• Surf Coast
• Colac Otway
• Glenelg
• Corangamite
• Southern Grampians
• Moyne
• Queenscliffe }}

| stategov = {{plainlist|

• Bellarine
• Geelong
• Lara
• Lowan
• Polwarth
• Ripon
• South Barwon
• South-West Coast }}

| fedgov = {{plainlist|

• Corangamite
• Corio
• Wannon }}

| logo =

| url = www.rdv.vic.gov.au/victorian-regions/barwon-south-west

| near-n = Grampians

| near-ne = Greater Melbourne

| near-e = Port Phillip Bay

| near-se = Bass Strait

| near-s = Bass Strait

| near-sw = Southern Ocean

| near-w = South Australia

| near-nw = Grampians

}}

File:Aerial views of the Otways region of Victoria, Australia.webm

The Barwon South West is an economic rural region{{cite web|url=http://dsdbi.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0003/65235/Meaning-of-Regional-Victoria.doc|type=MS Word requires download|title=Meaning of Regional Victoria|work=Department of State Development, Business and Innovation|publisher=State Government of Victoria|date=2011|access-date=15 August 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819125756/http://dsdbi.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0003/65235/Meaning-of-Regional-Victoria.doc|archive-date=19 August 2014|df=dmy-all}} located in the southwestern part of Victoria, Australia.{{cite web|url=http://www.rdv.vic.gov.au/victorian-regions/barwon-south-west|title=Victoria's Barwon South West Region|work=Regional Development Victoria|publisher=State Government of Victoria|date=8 May 2014|access-date=10 August 2014}} 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 and the major centres of

Aireys Inlet, Apollo Bay, {{VICcity|Camperdown}}, {{VICcity|Colac}}, {{VICcity|Hamilton}}, {{VICcity|Lorne}}, {{VICcity|Port Campbell}}, {{VICcity|Port Fairy}}, {{VICcity|Portland}}, {{VICcity|Torquay}} and Warrnambool. It draws its name from the Barwon River and the geographic location of the region in the state of Victoria.

Comprising an area in excess of {{convert|40000|km2}} with approximately {{formatnum:360000}} residents as at the 2011 census, the Barwon South West region includes the Colac Otway, Corangamite, Glenelg, Greater Geelong, Moyne, Queenscliffe, Southern Grampians, Surf Coast and Warrnambool City local government areas and the Unincorporated area of Lady Julia Percy Island.

The Barwon South West region is located along the two major interstate transport corridors – the Princes Highway corridor and the Western Highway corridor. The region comprises two distinct and inter-connected sub-regions or districts: Greater Geelong and the Great South Coast. The region is bounded by Bass Strait and the Great Australian Bight in the south and southwest, the South Australian border in the west, the Grampians region in the north and the Greater Melbourne region in the east.{{cite web|url=http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/215405/Great-South-Coast-Regional-Growth-Plan-Summary-May-2014.pdf|type=PDF|page=11|title=Great South Coast Regional Growth Plan: Summary|work=Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure|publisher=Government of Victoria|date=May 2014|access-date=16 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085539/http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/215405/Great-South-Coast-Regional-Growth-Plan-Summary-May-2014.pdf|archive-date=19 August 2014|url-status=dead}}