South Australia
Eyre Peninsula
City of Whyalla

Whyalla

Whyalla is a city on the northeastern , which was developed around the steelworks, port and nearby iron ore deposits in the early 20th century.
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  • Type: City with 20,900 residents
  • Description: city in South Australia
  • Also known as: “Greater Whyalla”, “Whyalla, South Australia”, and “Whyalla, South Australia, Australia”
  • Postal code: 5600

Places of Interest

Highlights include HMAS Whyalla.

Photo: Yewenyi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, named for the city of Whyalla was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II and one of 20 built on Admiralty order but manned by personnel of and later commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy.

Whyalla

Latitude
-33.0382° or 33° 2′ 18″ south
Longitude
137.5844° or 137° 35′ 4″ east
Population
20,900
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
WYA
United Nations Location Code
AU WYA
Open location code
4QRVXH6M+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 253010604
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2058430
Wiki­data ID
Q706029
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Satellite Map

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

From Abkhazian to Western Panjabi—“Whyalla” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Уаиалла”
  • Arabic: “وايللا”
  • Armenian: “Ուայալա”
  • Asturian: “Whyalla”
  • Basque: “Whyalla”
  • Belarusian: “Уаяла”
  • Bengali: “হইয়ালা”
  • Cebuano: “Whyalla”
  • Central Kurdish: “وایالا”
  • Chinese: “怀阿拉”
  • Chinese: “懷阿拉”
  • Danish: “Whyalla”
  • Dutch: “Whyalla”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وايللا”
  • Esperanto: “Whyalla”
  • Estonian: “Whyalla”
  • Finnish: “Whyalla”
  • French: “Whyalla”
  • Georgian: “უაიალა”
  • German: “Whyalla”
  • Greek: “Γουαϊάλλα”
  • Gujarati: “વિઆલા”
  • Hebrew: “וויאלה”
  • Hebrew: “ויאלה”
  • Hindi: “क्योंहा”
  • Indonesian: “Whyalla, Australia Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Whyalla”
  • Irish: “Whyalla”
  • Italian: “Whyalla”
  • Japanese: “ワイアラ”
  • Kannada: “ವೈಲ್ಲ”
  • Korean: “화이앨라”
  • Latvian: “Vajala”
  • Lithuanian: “Vajala”
  • Malagasy: “Whyalla”
  • Malay: “Whyalla”
  • Marathi: “व्हाल्लआ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Whyalla”
  • Norwegian: “Whyalla”
  • Persian: “وایالا”
  • Polish: “Whyalla”
  • Portuguese: “Whyalla”
  • Romanian: “Whyalla”
  • Russian: “Уайалла”
  • Russian: “Уайялла”
  • Russian: “Уаялла”
  • Serbian: “Vajala”
  • Serbian: “Whyalla”
  • Serbian: “Вајала”
  • Sinhala: “වයල්ලා”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویالا”
  • Spanish: “Whyalla”
  • Swedish: “Whyalla (regionhuvudort)”
  • Swedish: “Whyalla”
  • Tamil: “வ்ஹ்யல்லா”
  • Telugu: “వ్యల్లా”
  • Thai: “วายยะล่า”
  • Turkish: “Whyalla”
  • Ukrainian: “Вайалла”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваялла”
  • Urdu: “ہوائالا، جنوبی آسٹریلیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Whyalla”
  • Welsh: “Whyalla”
  • Western Panjabi: “واۓلا”

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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 “Whyalla”. Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.