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Elong Elong is a locality on the 
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Golden Highway
Golden Highway is a highway, located in the Hunter Region, Hunter and Orana (New South Wales), Orana regions of New South Wales, Australia. It runs eastwards from Dubbo towards Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle on the coast, allowing roa ...
in New South Wales
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, Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
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Elong Elong has several houses and a grain silo on the line from Dubbo to Binnaway. It is located between Ballimore and Cobbora Cobbora is an almost defunct village in New South Wales, Australia. The name of the locality was also spelled Cobborah.
Cobbora was established where the original track from Mudgee to Mendooran crossed the Talbragar River. In the late 1800s, it ha ...
. East of Elong Elong, the railway turns away from the Talbragar River
Talbragar River, a perennial stream that is part of the Macquarie catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Orana district of New South Wales, Australia.
The river rises on the western side of the Liverpool Range on south ...
and heads north through the forest to Mendooran
Mendooran (pronunciation: ''men-door-an'') is a small town adjacent to the Castlereagh River in the Warrumbungle Shire of central western New South Wales, Australia. The town lies at an altitude of 271 metres above sea level, 348 kilometres west ...
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According to the 2016 Australian census it has a population of 115 people.{{Census 2016 AUS, id=SSC11406, name=Elong Elong (State Suburb), accessdate=16 January 2019, quick=on Material was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
See also
*List of reduplicated Australian place names
These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wagga Wagga" ''many ...
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