Australia
Western Australia
Pilbara

Port Hedland

Port Hedland is an industrial port in the region of Western Australia, with a population of 15,471. It exports iron ore from the mines inland, with huge freight trains bringing the ore to the docks.
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  • Type: City with 15,300 residents
  • Description: port city in Pilbara region of Western Australia
  • Also known as: “Port Hedland, Western Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Don Rhodes Mining and Transport Museum.

Museum
Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a public park in Port Hedland, Western Australia, with an open-air display of retired mining machinery and railway rollingstock.

Port Hedland

Latitude
-20.3112° or 20° 18′ 40″ south
Longitude
118.5801° or 118° 34′ 48″ east
Population
15,300
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
PHE
United Nations Location Code
AU PHE
Open location code
5PFWMHQJ+G2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44776448
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2063042
Wiki­data ID
Q550465
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Satellite Map

Discover Port Hedland from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Zeeuws—“Port Hedland” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Port Hedland”
  • Basque: “Port Hedland”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-Хедленд”
  • Cebuano: “Port Hedland”
  • Chinese: “希蘭港”
  • Chinese: “黑德兰港”
  • Chinese: “黑德蘭”
  • Chinese: “黑德蘭港”
  • Chinese: “黑德蘭港姆”
  • Dutch: “Port Hedland”
  • Esperanto: “Port Hedland”
  • Finnish: “Port Hedland”
  • French: “Port Hedland”
  • Georgian: “პორტ-ჰედლანდი”
  • German: “Port Hedland”
  • Hebrew: “פורט הדלנד”
  • Hungarian: “Port Hedland”
  • Irish: “Port Hedland”
  • Italian: “Port Hedland”
  • Japanese: “ポートヘッドランド (西オーストラリア州)”
  • Japanese: “ポートヘッドランド”
  • Korean: “포트헤들랜드”
  • Lithuanian: “Port Hedlandas”
  • Malagasy: “Port Hedland”
  • Nauru: “Port Hedland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Hedland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Hedland”
  • Norwegian: “Port Hedland”
  • Persian: “پورت هدلند، استرالیای غربی”
  • Polish: “Port Hedland”
  • Portuguese: “Port Hedland”
  • Russian: “Порт-Хедленд”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Port Hedland”
  • Serbian: “Порт Хедланд”
  • Spanish: “Port Hedland (Australia)”
  • Spanish: “Port Hedland”
  • Swedish: “Port Hedland”
  • Turkish: “Port Hedland, Batı Avustralya”
  • Turkish: “Port Hedland”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-Гедленд”
  • Zeeuws: “Port Hedland”
  • “Port Hedland”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Port Hedland”. Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0.