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Burnie

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Country: Australia

Population:19,976

Time Zone:UTC+12

Burnie is best known as a port city on Tasmania’s north-west coast. Founded as Emu Bay in 1827, it took its current name in the early 1840s in honour of Van Diemen’s Land Company director William Burnie. The fourth largest city on the island, Burnie was proclaimed a city in 1988 and had a population of 19,918 in the 2021 census.