Cooma
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Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Cooma
- Australian place.state
- NSW
- Australian place.image
- Cooma, NSW, Courthouse, jjron, 24.09.2008.jpg
- Australian place.caption
- Cooma Court House
- Australian place.lga
- Snowy Monaro Regional Council
- Australian place.county
- Beresford
- Australian place.postcode
- 2630
- Australian place.est
- 1849
- Australian place.elevation
- 800
- Australian place.maxtemp
- 19.4
- Australian place.mintemp
- 4.1
- Australian place.rainfall
- 541.6
- Australian place.stategov
- Monaro
- Australian place.fedgov
- Eden-Monaro
- Australian place.dist1
- 397
- Australian place.dir1
- SW
- Australian place.location1
- Sydney
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- locality
- Part of
- Snowy Mountains
- Country
- Australia
- Population
- 6715
- Elevation
- 796
- Capital of
- Snowy Monaro Regional Council
- Image
- Cooma NSW 2630, Australia - panoramio (11).jpg
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- P12749
- Diplodactylidae
- Commons category
- Cooma, New South Wales
- postal code
- 2630
- male population
- 3358
- female population
- 3321
- maximum temperature record
- 39.5
- associated electoral district
- Eden-Monaro
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
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- External links
Cooma is a town in the south of New South Wales, Australia. It is located south of the national capital, Canberra, via the Monaro Highway. It is also on the Snowy Mountains Highway, connecting Bega with the Riverina.
At the , Cooma had a population of . Cooma is the main town of the Monaro region. It is above sea level. The name could have derived from an Aboriginal word Coombah, meaning 'big lake' or 'open country'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cooma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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