Toowoomba

Download coordinates as: Toowoomba (/təˈwʊmbə/ tə-WUUM-bə, nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar'[3]) is a city in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.[4] It is 132 km (82 mi) west of Queensland's capital, Brisbane. 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.[5] Toowoomba is the second-most-populous inland city in the country after the nation's capital, Canberra.[6] It is also the second-largest regional centre in Queensland,[7] and is often referred to as the capital of the Darling Downs. It is the council seat of the eponymously named Toowoomba Region.