Stirling is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

The suburb is named after Sir James Stirling (1791–1865) who was the first Governor of Western Australia between 1829–1839 and established settlements at Perth and Fremantle in 1829.

[3] Stirling contains the Weston Campus of the Canberra College, which is located on Fremantle Drive.

Deakin Volcanics red-purple and green grey rhyodacite with spherulitic texture cover most of Stirling except for Laidlaw Volcanics pale to dark grey tuff on the southernmost quarter.

This article on the geography of the Australian Capital Territory is a stub.