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Griffith is a city in south-western New South Wales, known commonly as the food bowl of Australia. It is also the seat of the City of Griffith local government area. Like the Australian capital, Canberra and the nearby town of Leeton, Griffith was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. () Griffith was named after (Arthur Hill Griffith ) the first New South Wales minister of Public Works.〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Griffith, Arthur Hill (1861 - 1946) )〕 Griffith was proclaimed a city in 1987,〔 and had a population of 17,616 in 2011. It can be accessed by road from Sydney and Canberra via the Hume Highway and the Burley Griffin Way and from Melbourne, Victoria via the Newell Highway and either by using the Kidman Way or the Irrigation Way. The city of Griffith had contained no traffic lights up until February 2010 when the first set of traffic lights was installed at the intersection of Burrell Place and Wakaden Street. ==Demography== According to ABS data the resident population of Griffith in 2014 was 25,811 with a population density of 0.16 persons per hectare. In 2011, 14% of people in Griffith came from countries where English was not their first language. A total of 2,857 people were born outside Australia, of whom 1,279 were born in Italy and 826 were born in India. Of the total population, 31% declared themselves to be of Australian ancestry, 27% of English ancestry, 26% of Italian ancestry, 8% of Irish ancestry and 7% of Scottish ancestry. Respondents could nominate up to two ancestries.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Griffith, New South Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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