Gundagai
Gundagai | |||||||||||||
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Sheridan Street in 2019 | |||||||||||||
Gundagai Location in New South Wales | |||||||||||||
Interactive map of Gundagai | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 35°03′57″S 148°06′28″E / 35.065885°S 148.107695°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1838 | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 232 m (761 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 2,057 (2021 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2722 | ||||||||||||
| County | Clarendon | ||||||||||||
| Mean max temp | 22.3 °C (72.1 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Mean min temp | 8.5 °C (47.3 °F) | ||||||||||||
| Annual rainfall | 714.4 mm (28.13 in) | ||||||||||||
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Gundagai /ˈɡʌndəɡaɪ/ is a town in the Riverina of New South Wales, Australia. Although a small town, Gundagai is a popular topic for writers and has become a representative icon of a typical Australian country town. Located along the Murrumbidgee River and Muniong, Honeysuckle, Kimo, Mooney Mooney, Murrumbidgee and Tumut mountain ranges, Gundagai is 390 kilometres (240 mi) south-west of Sydney. Until 2016, Gundagai was the administrative centre of Gundagai Shire local government area. In the 2021 census, the population of Gundagai was 1,970.