Trangie is a town in the Orana region of

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, Australia. The town is on the

Mitchell Highway Mitchell Highway is an outback state highway located in the central and south western regions of Queensland and the northern and central western regions of New South Wales in Australia. The southern part of Mitchell Highway forms part of t ...

north west of the state capital

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. It is part of

Narromine Shire Narromine Shire is a local government area in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Mitchell Highway and the Main Western railway line. It was formed on 1 January 1981 from the amalgamation of the ...

local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a federated state, state, province, division (politica ...

. At the , Trangie had a population of 768. Trangie is on the

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Economy

The Trangie Research Centre is "one of the largest broadacre agricultural research centres in Australia".Welcome to Narromine Shire
narromine.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2020.

Population

According to the 2021 census of Population, there were 768 people in Trangie. * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 21.9% of the population. * 83.9% of people were born in Australia and 89.4% of people spoke only English at home. * The most common responses for religion were Catholic 28.0%, Anglican 27.8% and no religion 16.0%.

Climate

Sport

Trangie Magpies formerly played in the

Castlereagh Cup The Castlereagh League (also known as the Castlereagh Cup and Group 14) is a rugby league competition in western New South Wales, Australia, run under the auspices of the New South Wales Country Rugby League, Country Rugby League. For all intent ...

rugby league competition. Tennis player

Lesley Turner Bowrey Lesley Rosemary Turner Bowrey, AM (née Turner; born 16 August 1942) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. Her career spanned two decades from the late 1950s until the late 1970s. Turner Bowrey won the singles title at the F ...

was born here in 1942, as well as rugby league player

Justin Carney Justin Robert Carney (born 19 June 1988) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played on the or as a . He played for Canberra Raiders and the Sydney Roosters in Australia, and Castleford Tigers, Salford Red Devils and ...

References

External links

Photos of headstones in Trangie General Cemetery
*Trangie local Websit
Trangie NSW
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