Nimbin, New South Wales

Nimbin New South Wales
The Nimbin Valley and Nimbin Rocks in the Northern Rivers of NSW (aerial shot)
Nimbin Location in New South Wales
Coordinates	28°35′45″S 153°13′23″E / 28.59583°S 153.22306°E / -28.59583; 153.22306
Population	1,607 (2021)[1]
Postcode(s)	2480
Elevation	65 m (213 ft)
Location	779 km (484 mi) NE of Sydney 181 km (112 mi) S of Brisbane 35 km (22 mi) N of Lismore 50 km (31 mi) SW of Murwillumbah 33 km (21 mi) E of Kyogle
LGA(s)	City of Lismore
State electorate(s)	Lismore
Federal division(s)	Page

Nimbin is a town in the Northern Rivers area of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately 30 km (19 mi) north of Lismore, 33 km (21 mi) northeast of Kyogle, and 70 km (43 mi) west of Byron Bay.

Nimbin is notable for the prominence of its environmental initiatives such as permaculture, sustainability, and self-sufficiency, as well as the cannabis counterculture. Writer Austin Pick described his initial impressions of the village this way: "It is as if a smoky avenue of Amsterdam has been placed in the middle of the mountains behind frontier-style building facades. ... Nimbin is a strange place indeed."^[2]

Nimbin has been described in literature and mainstream media as 'the drug capital of Australia', 'a social experiment', and 'an escapist sub-culture'. Nimbin has become an icon in Australian cultural history, with many of the values first introduced there by the counterculture becoming part of modern Australian culture.^[3]