Toowoomba

Download coordinates as: Toowoomba (/təˈwʊmbə/ tə-WUUM-bə, nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar'[4]) is a city in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.[5] It is 125 km (78 mi) west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane by road.[6] The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 census was 142,163,[1] having grown at an average annual rate of 1.45% over the previous two decades.[7] Toowoomba is the second-most-populous inland city in the country after the nation's capital of Canberra,[8] and hence the largest city on the Darling Downs. It is the second largest regional centre in Queensland,[9] often referred to as the capital of the Darling Downs. It is also the council seat of the eponymously named Toowoomba Region.