Merbein
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Merbein is a town in the Rural City of Mildura, Victoria, Australia. It is on the Calder Highway between Mildura and the Murray River crossing at the Abbotsford Bridge to Curlwaa. At the , the town had a population of 1,981. Merbein is 12 kilometres from Mildura, from Melbourne and from Adelaide.
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- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Rural City of Mildura
- Population
- 2077
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- Merbein Hotel 003.JPG
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- Merbein, Victoria
- postal code
- 3505
- male population
- 1344
- female population
- 1370
- inception
- 1912-01-01
- associated electoral district
- Mallee
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Merbein is a town in the Rural City of Mildura, Victoria, Australia. It is on the Calder Highway between Mildura and the Murray River crossing at the Abbotsford Bridge to Curlwaa. At the , the town had a population of 1,981. Merbein is 12 kilometres from Mildura, from Melbourne and from Adelaide.
The town is known for farming and is part what is informally called the "fruit bowl" or "food bowl", the growing region roughly made of the Coomealla and Sunraysia irrigation districts fed by the Darling and Murray rivers. Produce farmed in Merbein include grapes, citrus, mushrooms, green beans, asparagus and pistachios.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Merbein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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