Cooma is a town in the south of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 114 kilometres south of the national capital, Canberra, via the Monaro Highway. It is also on the Snowy Mountains Highway, connecting Bega with the Riverina. At the 2016 census, Cooma had a population of 6,742. Cooma is the main town of the Monaro region. It is 800 metres above sea level. The name could have derived from an Aboriginal word Coombah, meaning 'big lake' or 'open country'.Cooma was explored by Captain J. M. Currie in 1823. It was first surveyed in 1840, and was gazetted in 1849. Cooma was proclaimed a municipality in 1879. Cooma is 5 kilometres south of the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, a main tributary of the Murray–Darling basin. Cooma sources its water from the river.
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