Rural City of Swan Hill
Rural City of Swan Hill | |||||||||||||
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Location in Victoria | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
| Region | Loddon Mallee | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Swan Hill | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Mayor | Les McPhee | ||||||||||||
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| Area | |||||||||||||
• Total | 6,115 km2 (2,361 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 21,403 (2021) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 3.5001/km2 (9.0652/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Gazetted | 20 January 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Website | Rural City of Swan Hill | ||||||||||||
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The Rural City of Swan Hill is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the north-western part of the state. It covers an area of 6,115 square kilometres (2,361 mi2) and, in August 2021, had a population of 21,403. It includes the towns of Swan Hill, Lake Boga, Manangatang, Nyah, Nyah West, Piangil, Robinvale, Ultima and Woorinen South.
The Rural City is governed and administered by the Swan Hill Rural City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Swan Hill, it also has a service centre located in Robinvale. The Rural City is named after the main urban settlement lying in the south-east of the LGA, that is Swan Hill, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 10,431.