| Kapooka Wagga Wagga, New South Wales | |
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 Kapooka Public School | |
  Kapooka | |
| Coordinates | 35°9′7.66″S147°18′7.48″E / 35.1521278°S 147.3020778°E Coordinates: 35°9′7.66″S147°18′7.48″E / 35.1521278°S 147.3020778°E |
| Population | 633 (2016 census) [1] |
| Postcode(s) | 2661 |
| Location |
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| LGA(s) | City of Wagga Wagga |
| County | Mitchell |
| Parish | Uranquinty |
| State electorate(s) | Wagga Wagga |
| Federal Division(s) | Riverina |
Kapooka is a suburb in the south-west of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. [2]
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Kapooka is home to the Department of Defence's Blamey Barracks from where the Army Recruit Training Centre conducts its operations.
It is located on the Olympic Highway, between Wagga Wagga and Uranquinty.
The Olympic Highway is a rural road in the central western and south-eastern Riverina regions of New South Wales, Australia. The 318-kilometre (198 mi) highway services rural communities and links the Hume Highway with the Mid-Western Highway and provides part of an alternate road link between Sydney and Albury via Bathurst and Cowra as well as servicing Wagga Wagga, linking with the Sturt Highway.
Wagga Wagga is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 54,000 as at the 2016 census, Wagga Wagga is the state's largest inland city, and is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia. The ninth fastest growing inland city in Australia, Wagga Wagga is located midway between the two largest cities in Australia–Sydney and Melbourne–and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes regions.
Uranquinty is a small town approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Wagga Wagga, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The population of the town is 909.
