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Yagoona

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City of Canterbury-Bankstown NSW, PO Box 8, Yagoona, NSW 2199
02 9707 9000

Description

Yagoona, a suburb of the local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 20 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Yagoona, a suburb of the local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 20 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is a part of the South-western Sydney region. Yagoona is an Aboriginal word meaning 'now' or 'today'. It was the site of the first McDonald's restaurant to open in Australia in December 1971.

History

Before European settlement, the area was originally occupied by the Bediagal people.

The area now known as Yagoona—Bass Hill, and north Bankstown—was once known as Irish Town, due to the high concentration of Irish rebels transported here from Ireland in the late 1700s. Land grants were issued to Irish families and finally the suburb of Yagoona was created in 1927. St Matthew's Anglican Church was built on Liverpool Road (now Hume Highway) in 1861 to cater for the Protestants of the district as well as to function as a school.

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Type: Suburbs

Population: 10001-100000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 4.618 km2

Elevation: 11-50 metres

Town elevation: 48 m

Population number: 18,013

Local Government Area: City of Canterbury-Bankstown

Location

City of Canterbury-Bankstown NSW, PO Box 8, Yagoona, NSW 2199

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Yagoona, New South Wales

Yagoona - Localista

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