Download coordinates as: Tanbar is an outback locality in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia.

[2] It is on the corner of Queensland's southern and western border with South Australia.

[5] It is 736 square kilometres (284 sq mi) and is ephemeral,[4] holding water only when Cooper Creek floods.

Arrabury Road branches off from the Birdsville Developmental Road shortly after it enters the locality and then proceeds south-west and then south into Durham (remaining west of Lake Yamma Yamma).

There are a number of airstrips in the locality, including: Media related to Tanbar, Queensland at Wikimedia Commons