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Wagga Wagga, New South Wales/Australia Settled in the 1830s with an Aboriginal name ‘(Place of) Many Crows’, the duplication of the word indicating the plural.

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Wagga Wagga , city (1991 pop. 40,875), New South Wales, SE Australia, on the Murrumbidgee River. It is the center of an agricultural district with food-processing and rubber-goods plants and foundries. Wagga Wagga is also the site of the main campus of Charles Sturt Univ. as well as teachers, technical, and agricultural colleges.

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