What is Cowra?
{{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Cowra | state = NSW | image = {{Photomontage | photo1a = Kendal Street, the heart of the CBD.jpg | photo2a = Cowra Welcome.jpg|thumb | photo3a =|thumb | photo3b = Canola Fields (Cowra).jpg|thumb | photo4a = Cowra Bridge Pilons.jpg|thumb | photo4b = Cowra World Peace Bell.jpg|thumb | photo6a = Lachlan River.jpg|thumb | size = 300 | position = center | spacing = 3 | color = #FFFFFF | border = 3 }} | caption = <small>From top to bottom, left to right: Kendal Street divides the CBD, the Eastern entrance to the town, the Japanese War Cemetery, Crops of canola create 'fields of gold', decorated in Aboriginal art, the pylons of the Cowra Bridge, Australia's World Peace Bell and the [[Lachlan River]] which flows through the heart of the town</small> | image_alt = | relief = | coordinates = {{coord|33|50|6|S|148|41|33|E|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | map_alt = | pop = 10,063 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}} | pop_footnotes = <ref name=census>{{Census 2011 AUS|id=SSC10631|name=Cowra (State Suburb)|accessdate=2 April 2015|quick=on}}</ref> | poprank = | density = | density_footnotes = | established = 1846 | established_footnotes = | abolished = | gazetted = 1849 | postcode = 2794 | elevation = 310 | elevation_footnotes = | area = | area_footnotes = | timezone = [[Australian Eastern Standard Time|AEST]] | utc = +10 | timezone-dst = [[Australian Eastern Daylight Time|AEDT]] | utc-dst = +11 | dist1 = 72 | dir1 = SW | location1 = [[Orange, New South Wales|Orange]