Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga (pronounced Wogga Wogga) is a city in New South Wales, Australia. Lying on the Murrumbidgee River, Wagga Wagga is the state's largest inland city as well as being an important agricultural, military, educational and transport hub. The population in 2003 was around 57,000. It is home to 22 primary schools, 8 secondary schools a regional TAFE and one of the four main campuses of Charles Sturt University, as well as Wagga Base Hospital, the Kapooka Army base and a separate RAAF base.

Wagga is a Wiradjuri Aboriginal word meaning crow and to create the plural, the Wiradjuri repeat the word. Thus 'Wagga Wagga' translates as 'the place of many crows'. The main shopping streets of Wagga Wagga are Baylis and Fitzmaurice Streets. Wagga Wagga has a large catchment population as it is the administrative centre of the Riverina. Wagga Wagga draws visitors from towns in the Riverina and Southwest Slopes such as Leeton, Griffith, Narrandera, Deniliquin, Coleambally, Junee, The Rock and Tumut.