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{{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox Australian place | type = suburb 
| name     =  Cook
| state    = act
| city     = Canberra
| image    =  
| map_type = 
| coordinates = {{coord|35|15|35|S|149|03|50|E|scale:20000_region:AU-ACT|display=inline,title}}
| caption  = 
| lga      =  [[Belconnen]]
| postcode =  [[Postcodes in Australia|2614]] 
| est      =  1968
| area     = 1.7
| pop      =  <!--leave blank to draw the latest automatically from Wikidata-->
| stategov =  [[Ginninderra electorate|Ginninderra]]
| fedgov = [[Division of Canberra|Canberra]]
| near-nw  =  [[Weetangera, Australian Capital Territory|Weetangera]]
| near-n   =  [[Macquarie, Australian Capital Territory|Macquarie]]
| near-ne  =   [[Aranda, Australian Capital Territory|Aranda]]
| near-e   =   [[Aranda, Australian Capital Territory|Aranda]]
| near-w   =   ''[[Canberra Nature Park]]''
| near-sw  =   ''[[Canberra Nature Park]]''
| near-s   =   ''[[Canberra Nature Park]]''
| near-se  =   ''[[Canberra Nature Park]]''
}}

'''Cook''' ([[Postcodes in Australia|postcode]]: 2614) is a suburb of the [[Belconnen]] district of [[Canberra]], located within the [[Australian Capital Territory]], [[Australia]]. At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Cook had a population of 2,965 people.<ref name=Census>{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL80040|name=Cook|accessdate=5 September 2022|quick=on}}</ref>

The suburb of Cook is named after Captain [[James Cook]] and the sixth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] Sir [[Joseph Cook]]. The streets in Cook are named after notable women from Australian history.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/place_search3?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkYyMDMuOS4yNDkuMyUyRlBsYWNlTmFtZXMlMkZQbGFjZURldGFpbHMuYXNweCUzRm9iamVjdElEJTNENTM1NTUmYWxsPTE%3D | title = Suburb Name search results| publisher =ACT Environment and Sustainable Development| accessdate = 11 January 2013}}</ref> 

Signs at the perimeter of the suburb's boundaries are a common target for [[graffiti]] artists, who alter one letter in the word "Cook" so that it reads "[[Cock (slang)|cock]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://researchsystem.canberra.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/53542170/Axon_2021_11.2_OTM_10_Frederick_Ireland_2_.pdf|title=Too Many Cocks: On the (Im)possibility of Graffiti Re-writing Colonial Narratives|first1=Ursula K|last1=Frederick|first2=Tracy|last2=Ireland|work=AXON: Creative Explorations|date=2021|publisher=The Centre for Creative & Cultural Research, University of Canberra}}</ref>

==Suburb amenities==
[[File:Former Cook Primary, Canberra.jpg|thumb|Former Cook Primary]]
*Cook has a small shopping centre including the ''Cook Grocer'' independent supermarket, ''Little Oink'' coffee shop, ''To All My Friends'' bar, ''Jina's Hair Salon'' for men, ''Prestige Oysters'' fish monger and a public toilet.
*Cook Community Hub, in place of the Cook Primary School which was a government run school for children in years K-6 until closed at the end of 2007 as part of a rationalisation of primary education across the ACT with most students moving to neighbouring schools in Aranda, Macquarie and Weetangera.
*Cook Preschool
*Cook school park

== Political representation ==

For the purposes of [[Elections in Australia|Australian federal elections]] for the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]], Cook is in the [[Division of Canberra]].

For the purposes of Australian Capital Territory elections for the [[Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly|ACT Legislative Assembly]], Cook is in the [[Ginninderra electorate]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Electorates 2012 election |url=http://www.elections.act.gov.au/electoral_boundaries/electorates/electorates_2012_election |work=Electorates |publisher=ACT Electoral Commission |date=5 July 2012 |accessdate=17 December 2013 }}</ref>

==Geology==
{{Main|Geology of the Australian Capital Territory}}
[[Greywacke]] from the [[Ordovician]] Pittman Formation forms a band down the east of Cook.   This has been uplifted on the east side of the Deakin Fault.  The fault heads in the north north west direction in Cook. A [[Porphyry (geology)|porphyry]] of Green-grey Dacitic intrusive containing large white [[feldspar]] crystals is found in the north east corner of Cook. Mount Painter Volcanics dark grey to grey green crystal tuff is found in the centre and south and south west. Green grey rhyodacite of the Walker Volcanics underlie the north west.<ref>Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Suburbs of Canberra]]