Gippsland is an economic rural region that occupies the south-eastern part of Victoria, Australia. Covering an area of over forty thousand square kilometres, Gippsland lies to the east of the eastern suburbs of Greater Melbourne, and is best known for its primary production such as mining, power generation and farming as well as its tourist destinations— Phillip Island, Wilsons Promontory, the Gippsland Lakes, Walhalla, the Baw Baw Plateau, and the Strzelecki Ranges. Gippsland has a range of unspoilt beaches, lakes, mountains and gourmet waterfront villages.
As at the 2016 Australian census, the Gippsland region had a population of 271,266, that is generally broken down into the East Gippsland, South Gippsland, West Gippsland, and the Latrobe Valley statistical divisions. The principal centres of the region are Traralgon, Moe, Warragul, Pakenham, Morwell, Sale, Bairnsdale, Drouin, Leongatha, and Phillip Island.