Bogangar

{{short description|Town on Tweed Coast, New South Wales, Australia}}

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Bogangar is a town in the Tweed Shire located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, and includes Cudgen Lake, Norries Headland and the locality of Cabarita Beach on the east.Geographical Names Board of NSW file GNB3810, 4780 Locally, the names Bogangar and Cabarita Beach are interchangeable,[https://www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/files/assets/public/documents/property-and-rates/floods-and-stormwater/coastal-creeks-flood-study-2009.pdf see Executive summary pg.5] with more residents choosing to use the latter. In the 2016 Census, Bogangar had a population of 3,060.{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC10439|name=Bogangar (SSC)|quick=on|access-date=14 October 2018}}

Bogangar takes its name from the Bandjalang-Yugambeh dialect chain word `bobingah' meaning a highland.J Evans, Science of Man 21.3.1903