Riverina
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Bounded on the north by the Lachlan River, the Riverina's northwestern and southern boundaries — the Murrumbidgee and Murray, respectively— are clear-cut. The eastern boundary — somewhere towards the Great Dividing Range east of Albury and Wagga Wagga — is less easily defined.
The Riverina's combination of flat plains, a climate with significant seasonal variation, and an ample supply of water for irrigation from the snow-fed Murray and Murrumbidgeehas enabled it to develop into one of Australia's most productive and agriculturally diverse regions.
Sources:
Encyclopedia Britannica: Riverina https://www.britannica.com/place/Riverina
Wikipedia: Riverina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverina
Image: Map of the Riverina area, circa 1916, cropped from a map of New South Wales. (Commonwealth of Australia, Public domain (copyright expired), via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riverina_1916.jpg)
Home to Aboriginal groups including the Wiradjuri people for over 40,000 years, the Riverina was
