Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga [ wɔɡɐwɔɡɐ ] ( Austr mostly Wagga ) is a city in New South Wales on the Murrumbidgee River.

With nearly 47,000 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 in 1829 came the first white man in the area, it was inhabited from the 1830s. The name Wagga Wagga comes from the language of the Wiradjuri Aboriginal word meaning " many crows ".

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

Geography

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

It is located just on the half way of the rail link from Sydney to Melbourne. Also, here branches off a branch line to Tumbarumba.

Twin Cities

• United States - Leavenworth, Kansas, United States
• Germany - Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany
• People's Republic of China - Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Pictures

Albert Schweitzer Monument in Wagga Wagga