Taroom
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Taroom is a town in the Shire of Banana and locality split between the Shire of Banana and the Western Downs Region in Queensland, Australia. In the , Taroom had a population of 885 people.
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Taroom
- Australian place.state
- qld
- Australian place.image
- View towards the north-west from Gilbert's Lookout, Taroom, 2014.jpg
- Australian place.caption
- View towards the north-west from Gilbert's Lookout, 2014
- Australian place.local_map
- yes
- Australian place.zoom
- 8
- Australian place.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Queensland
- Australian place.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Australian place.pop
- 885
- Australian place.postcode
- 4420
- Australian place.area
- 0.9
- Australian place.dist1
- 128
- Australian place.dir1
- N
- Australian place.location1
- Miles
- Australian place.dist2
- 168
- Australian place.dir2
- NE
- Australian place.location2
- Roma
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Shire of Banana
- Population
- 578
- Elevation
- 210
- Image
- Banana Shire Council offices, Taroom, 2014.JPG
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- Commons category
- Taroom, Queensland
- postal code
- 4420
- associated electoral district
- Flynn
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Taroom is a town in the Shire of Banana and locality split between the Shire of Banana and the Western Downs Region in Queensland, Australia. In the , Taroom had a population of 885 people.
== Geography == The town is located on the Dawson River and the Leichhardt Highway, north-west of the state capital, Brisbane, 300 kilometres (186 mi) west of Maryborough, South-west of Rockhampton and from Toowoomba.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taroom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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