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Portland
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city in the state of Victoria, Australia
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Place details
- Locality
- Portland
- Region
- Victoria
- Country
- Australia
- Population
- 9,375
- Timezone
- Australia/Melbourne
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Australia
- State
- Victoria
- Lga
- Shire of Glenelg
- Location
- 362 km (225 mi) W of Melbourne 97 km (60 mi) W of Warrnambool
- Total
- 10,016 (2021)
- Mean max temp
- 17.7 °C (63.9 °F)
- Mean min temp
- 9.3 °C (48.7 °F)
- Annual rainfall
- 848.3 mm (33.40 in)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Portland (/ˈpɔːrtlənd/ PORT-lənd) is a city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state. It is also the main urban centre in the Shire of Glenelg and is located on Portland Bay. As of the 2021 census the population was 10,016, increasing from a population of 9,712 taken at the 2016 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.