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Griffith
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city in New South Wales, Australia
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Place details
- Locality
- Griffith
- Region
- New South Wales
- Country
- Australia
- Population
- 20,569
- Timezone
- Australia/Sydney
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Australia
- State
- New South Wales
- Lga
- City of Griffith
- Location
- 191 km (119 mi) NW of Wagga Wagga 358 km (222 mi) WNW of Canberra 458 km (285 mi) NNE of Melbourne 568 km (353 mi) WSW of Sydney
- Established
- 4 August 1916
- State electorate
- Murray
- Federal division
- Farrer
- Elevation
- 129.2 m (424 ft)
- Total
- 20,569 (2021)
- Time zone
- UTC+10 ( AEST )
- Summer dst
- UTC+11 ( AEDT )
- County
- Cooper
- Mean max temp
- 24.0 °C (75.2 °F)
- Mean min temp
- 10.1 °C (50.2 °F)
- Annual rainfall
- 397.6 mm (15.65 in)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 20799
- Elevation
- 129.2
- Image
- GriffithfromScenicHillLookout.JPG
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- Griffith, New South Wales
- postal code
- 2680
- male population
- 8971
- female population
- 9225
- P12749
- Los Lagos Region
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Griffith is a major regional city in the northern Riverina region of western New South Wales, known commonly as the food bowl of Australia. It is also the seat of the City of Griffith local government area. Like the Australian capital, Canberra, and extensions to the nearby town of Leeton, Griffith was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. Griffith was named after Arthur Hill Griffith, the then New South Wales Secretary for Public Works. Griffith was proclaimed a city in 1987, and at the 2021 census had a population of 20,569.
It can be accessed by road from Sydney and Canberra via the Hume Highway and the Burley Griffin Way and from Melbourne, via the Newell Highway and either by using the Kidman Way or the Irrigation Way. Griffith can be accessed from other places like Adelaide, Orange, and Bathurst through the Mid-Western Highway and the Rankins Springs road from Rankins Springs and the Kidman Way from Goolgowi.