The approximate location within New South Wales

The Southern Tablelands is a geographic area of the State of New South Wales, Australia. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. This area is located west of the Great Dividing Range and includes the towns of Yass, Crookwell and Boorowa. The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australia 's most substantial Mountain range. Crookwell is a small town with a population of about 2000 located in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in the Upper Lachlan Boorowa is a farming town in New South Wales, Australia and administrative centre of about 3000 people The area is characterised by flat country which has generally been extensively cleared and used for grazing purposes. The area is easily accessible to the Australian Federal capital city of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City. } The Australian Capital Territory (ACT is the Capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and its smallest self-governing internal territory The area is included with the Southern Highlands in the tourism district that is known as Capital Country. The Southern Highlands, also locally referred to as the Highlands, is a geographical area in New South Wales, Australia, 103km south west of Sydney Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel Capital Country is the name of one of the 16 regions of New South Wales Australia.

In a wider sense the Southern Tablelands also includes the Monaro, the Southern Highlands and Canberra. There are other uses for the term Monaro. Monaro (pronounced "mon-air'-ro" is the name of a region in the south of New