City of Fitzroy Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Location in Melbourne (shown in black) | |||||||||||||||
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Population | 17,600 (1992)[1] | ||||||||||||||
• Density | 4,718/km2 (12,220/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Established | 1858 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 3.73 km2 (1.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Council seat | Fitzroy | ||||||||||||||
Region | Inner Melbourne | ||||||||||||||
County | Bourke | ||||||||||||||
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The City of Fitzroy was a local government area about 2 kilometres (1 mi) northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 3.73 square kilometres (1.44 sq mi), making it the smallest municipality by land area in Victoria, and existed from 1858, until 1994.