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Canberra

Ngunnawal (Aboriginal Australian)
“meeting place (commonly cited, disputed)”
Where it comes from
possibly from Kamberra, a name linked to the Ngunnawal people and often glossed as 'meeting place'
Fun Fact
Canberra was chosen as a compromise capital between Sydney and Melbourne, and was designed by the American architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin after a 1912 competition.
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