Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan is a city in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia, next to the Australian Capital Territory in the Southern Tablelands region. It sits on the Queanbeyan River and is the council seat of the Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council. At the 2021 census the Queanbeyan part of the Canberra-Queanbeyan built-up area had 37,511 residents. Its economy rests on light construction, manufacturing, services, retail and agriculture, and because Canberra lies about 15 kilometres to the west it also works as a commuter town. The name is an anglicised form of a Ngarigo word meaning clear waters. The first inhabitants were the Ngambri people of the Walgalu Nation, the town grew from a squattage held by the innkeeper Timothy Beard, it was proclaimed a township in 1838, and it was granted city status on 7 July 1972.