About Toowoomba

Toowoomba ( tə-WUUM-bə, nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Toowoomba Region of the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. It is 125 km (78 mi) west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane by road. The estimated urban population of Toowoomba as of June 2019 was 169,010, having grown at an average annual rate of 1.02% year-on-year over the preceding five years. Toowoomba is the second-most-populous inland city in the country after the national capital of Canberra and hence the largest town on the Darling Downs, and the second largest regional city in Queensland after Townsville. It is also referred to as the capital of the Darling Downs.