Derriwong is a
rural locality in
Cunningham County
Cunningham County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is located to the north of the Lachlan River near Condobolin.
Cunningham County was named in honour of the botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham (botanist), Allan C ...
, one of the
Lands administrative divisions of New South Wales,
Australia
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.
In 2016 it had a population of 38.
It is also a
station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture
* Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production
* Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle
** Cattle statio ...
on the
Sydney - Broken Hill railway line.
Although mainly
agricultural
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in character,
the locality is notable as being the
geographic centre
In geography, the centroid of the two-dimensional shape of a region of the Earth's surface (projected radially to sea level or onto a geoid surface) is known as its geographic centre or geographical centre or (less commonly) gravitational centre. I ...
of
New South Wales
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, es ...
, by one calculation.
(See Also
Mount Tilga
Mount Tilga, a hill located near in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, was said to be the exact centre of New South Wales.
However, establishing the centre of an irregular shape is not a straightforward matter. Just where ...
.)
References
Towns in New South Wales
Towns in the Central West (New South Wales)
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