Mungindi

Mungindi is a town and locality on the border of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, Australia. The town is within Moree Plains Shire in New South Wales and within the Shire of Balonne in Queensland. Within Queensland, the locality is split between the Shire of Balonne (the western part) and the Goondiwindi Region (eastern part). It possesses a New South Wales postcode. Mungindi sits on the Carnarvon Highway and straddles the Barwon River which is the border between New South Wales and Queensland. At the, Mungindi had a population of 738 on the New South Wales side. The population on the Queensland side is now included in Thallon, which had a population, including the surrounding area, of 382.Geography"Mungindi" means 'water hole in the river' in Kamilaroi. Located uniquely on both sides of the New South Wales and Queensland border, Mungindi is the only border town in the Southern Hemisphere with the same name on both sides of the border. The state border runs down the centre of the Barwon River and under the centre of the Mungindi Bridge, but there is no exact marker on the bridge to indicate the point.