Townsville City is located in North Queensland. The City encompasses a total land area of about 3,740 square kilometres, including beaches, rivers, rainforests, national park and other significant parklands. Townsville City is a growing urban area, with significant rural areas and some industrial and commercial land use. Townsville City includes Magnetic Island and many smaller islands and rock shoals. Most of the urban areas are located in the east, in and around Townsville. Rural land is used mainly for cattle grazing, sugar cane farming, pineapple growing and orcharding, with some mining.

NOTE: The land use shown in the map is derived from ABS Mesh Block categories. Mesh Blocks broadly identify land use and are not designed to provide definitive land use. It is purely an indicator of the main planned land use for a Mesh Blocks. For more information please refer to ABS Mesh Block categories.