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Tarcutta
Town in New South Wales, Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tarcutta is a town in south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town is 438 kilometres (272 mi) south-west of Sydney, 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of the Hume Highway, It was proclaimed as a village on 28 October 1890. As of 2016, the town had a population of 446.[1]
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Coordinates | 35°16′37″S 147°44′13″E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 446 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 2652 | ||||||||||||||
Elevation | 233 m (764 ft) | ||||||||||||||
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LGA(s) | City of Wagga Wagga | ||||||||||||||
County | Wynyard | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Wagga Wagga | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Riverina | ||||||||||||||
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It serves a local farming community relying for its prosperity mainly on sheep and cattle, and the interstate truckies who use the town as a halfway change-over point in the trade between the state capital cities of Sydney and Melbourne.[2]