Mungindi
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Mungindi is a rural town and locality on the border of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, Australia. The town is within Moree Plains Shire in New South Wales. Within Queensland, the locality is split between the Shire of Balonne (the western part) and the Goondiwindi Region (eastern part). The town itself is in the Shire of Balonne. It has a New South Wales postcode. Mungindi is on the Carnarvon Highway and straddles the Barwon River, which forms the border between New South Wales and Queensland. In the , the locality of Mungindi had a population of 487 people in New South Wales and 124 peo
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Mungindi
- Australian place.state
- nsw
- Australian place.image
- Mungindi.JPG
- Australian place.caption
- Main street, 2008
- Australian place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in New South Wales
- Australian place.pop
- 611
- Australian place.postcode
- 2406
- Australian place.dist1
- 738
- Australian place.dir1
- NW
- Australian place.location1
- Sydney
- Australian place.dist2
- 511
- Australian place.dir2
- WSW
- Australian place.location2
- Brisbane
- Australian place.dist3
- 133
- Australian place.dir3
- S
- Australian place.location3
- St George
- Australian place.dist4
- 122
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Mungindi is a rural town and locality on the border of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, Australia. The town is within Moree Plains Shire in New South Wales. Within Queensland, the locality is split between the Shire of Balonne (the western part) and the Goondiwindi Region (eastern part). The town itself is in the Shire of Balonne. It has a New South Wales postcode. Mungindi is on the Carnarvon Highway and straddles the Barwon River, which forms the border between New South Wales and Queensland. In the , the locality of Mungindi had a population of 487 people in New South Wales and 124 people in Queensland, a total of 611 people.
==Geography== Mungindi means water hole in the river in Kamilaroi. Located on both sides of the New South Wales and Queensland border, Mungindi is one of very few border towns in the Southern Hemisphere with the same name on both sides of the border. The state border runs down the centre of the Barwon River and under the centre of the Mungindi Bridge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mungindi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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