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Newman

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Country: Australia

Population:5,138

Time Zone:UTC+8

Newman is a modern mining town in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, where homes stand out against the surrounding reddish desert. Formerly known as Mount Newman until 1981, it is reached via the Great Northern Highway, about 1,186 kilometres north of Perth and 9 kilometres north of the Tropic of Capricorn. The town had 6,456 residents in 2021, while the Hickman Crater, a meteorite impact site discovered in 2007, lies 35 kilometres to the north.