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Port Pirie
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city in South Australia
Key facts
- Country
- Australia
- State
- South Australia
- Region
- Mid North
- Lga
- Port Pirie Regional Council
- Location
- 223 km (139 mi) from Adelaide
- State electorate
- Stuart
- Federal division
- Grey
- Elevation
- 4 m (13 ft)
- Total
- 13,896 ( 2021 census )
- Time zone
- UTC+9:30 ( ACST )
- Summer dst
- UTC+10:30 ( ACDT )
- Mean max temp
- 24.4 °C (75.9 °F)
- Mean min temp
- 12.7 °C (54.9 °F)
- Annual rainfall
- 345 mm (13.6 in)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Port Pirie
- Population
- 13708
- Elevation
- 10
- Capital of
- Port Pirie
- Official website
- www.pirie.sa.gov.au
- Image
- Grain silos, smelter and smoke stack from across the river, Port Pirie, South Australia.jpg
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- Commons category
- Port Pirie, South Australia
- postal code
- 5540
- associated electoral district
- Grey
- male population
- 81
- female population
- 113
- inception
- 1845-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Ellen Brockhöft
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Port Pirie is a small city on the east coast of the Spencer Gulf in South Australia, 223 km (139 mi) north of the state capital, Adelaide. Port Pirie is the largest city and the main retail centre of the Mid North region of South Australia. The city has an expansive history which dates back to 1845. Port Pirie was the first proclaimed regional city in South Australia, and is currently the second most important and second busiest port in SA.
At the 2021 Census, Port Pirie had a population of 13,896. Port Pirie is the eighth most populous city in South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Gawler, Mount Barker, Whyalla, Murray Bridge and Port Lincoln.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Port Pirie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.