Shepparton ( /ˈʃɛpərtən/) is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in the north east of Victoria, Australia, approximately 181 kilometres (112 mi) north-east of Melbourne. The City of Greater Shepparton is the fifth largest within Victoria with an estimated population of 50,373.
It began as a sheep station and river crossing before undergoing a major transformation as a railway town. Today it is an agricultural and manufacturing ...
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Shepparton ( /ˈʃɛpərtən/) is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in the north east of Victoria, Australia, approximately 181 kilometres (112 mi) north-east of Melbourne. The City of Greater Shepparton is the fifth largest within Victoria with an estimated population of 50,373.
It began as a sheep station and river crossing before undergoing a major transformation as a railway town. Today it is an agricultural and manufacturing centre and the centre of the Goulburn Valley irrigation system, one of the largest centres of irrigation in Australia. It is a major regional service city and is the civic administration centre for the City of Greater Shepparton. The Greater Shepparton area includes surrounding centres of Tatura, Merrigum, Mooroopna, Murchison, Dookie, and Grahamvale.
Shepparton is the tenth most populated inland city of Australia, after Canberra, Toowoomba, Launceston, Albury-Wodonga, Ballarat, Bendigo, the Latrobe Valley, Wagga Wagga and Mildura.
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