Wagga Wagga

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Wagga Wagga
Baylis Street, Wagga Wagga.jpg
Baylis Street
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of New South Wales.svg New South Wales
Founded : 1889
Coordinates : 35 ° 7 ′  S , 147 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 35 ° 7 ′  S , 147 ° 22 ′  E
Height : 147  m
Area : 71.5  km²
Residents : 48,263 (2016)
Population density : 675 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10)
Postal code : 2650
LGA : Wagga Wagga City
Wagga Wagga (New South Wales)
Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga [ ˈwɔɡɐwɔɡɐ ] ( Austr. Mostly just Wagga ) is a town in New South Wales on the Murrumbidgee River .

With just under 48,000 inhabitants, Wagga Wagga is the largest city in the interior of New South Wales, the fifth largest city in the interior of Australia and the capital of the Riverina .

After Charles Sturt was the first white man to come to the area in 1829, it was settled in the 1830s. The name Wagga Wagga comes from the Wiradjuri - Aboriginal language and means "many crows".

Wagga Wagga is the center and administrative seat of the local administrative area Wagga Wagga City and the seat of the airline Regional Express Airlines .

geography

The city is 475 km southwest of Sydney , 240 km west of Canberra and 440 km northeast of Melbourne at the intersection of the Sturt Highway (west-east) with the Olympic Highway (north-south).

It is also halfway on the Sydney-Melbourne rail link. In addition, a branch line branches off to Tumbarumba here.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Wagga Wagga
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 32.2 31.5 28.0 23.0 18.0 14.0 12.9 14.8 17.9 21.9 26.4 29.6 O 22.5
Min. Temperature (° C) 16.3 16.5 13.2 9.1 6.0 3.9 2.9 3.6 5.2 7.6 11.3 13.9 O 9.1
Precipitation ( mm ) 38.6 40.5 42.9 37.5 47.6 52.4 60.1 50.5 49.1 52.8 44.8 51.6 Σ 568.4
Rainy days ( d ) 4.9 5.1 5.0 5.9 7.6 11.2 12.8 12.4 10.0 8.2 7.6 6.7 Σ 97.4
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14.0
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14.8
3.6
17.9
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  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Twin cities

photos

  • Cityscape, 2013

  • Bridge over the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga Wagga

  • Historic CBC bank building from 1882

  • Courthouse from 1903

  • Albert Schweitzer Monument in Wagga Wagga

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Wagga Wagga  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Wagga Wagga ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  2. ^ UBD (1994) New South Wales: Cities and Towns