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{{Infobox Australian place<br />
| type = town<br />
| name = Piangil<br />
| state = vic<br />
| image = Piangil Murray Street.JPG<br />
| caption = Murray St ([[Mallee Highway]]), the main street of Piangil, 2012<br />
| lga = Rural City of Swan Hill<br />
| postcode = 3597<br />
| est = <br />
| pop = 259<br />
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}<br />
| pop_footnotes = <ref name="ABS2016">{{cite web |title=2016 Census QuickStats Piangil |url=http://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC22053 |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=18 August 2018}}</ref><br />
| elevation= <br />
| coordinates = {{coord|35|03|0|S|143|18|0|E|display=inline,title}}<br />
| use_lga_map = yes<br />
| maxtemp = <br />
| mintemp = <br />
| rainfall = <br />
| stategov = [[Electoral district of Mildura|Mildura]]<br />
| fedgov = [[Division of Mallee|Mallee]]<br />
| dist1 = 382<br />
| dir1 = NW<br />
| location1= Melbourne<br />
| dist2 = 46<br />
| dir2 = NW<br />
| location2= Swan Hill<br />
| near-nw = [[Natya, Victoria|Natya]]<br />
| near-n = [[Natya, Victoria|Natya]]<br />
| near-ne = ''[[New South Wales]]''<br />
| near-w = [[Manangatang]]<br />
| near-e = ''[[New South Wales]]''<br />
| near-sw = [[Turoar, Victoria|Turoar]]<br />
| near-s = [[Towan, Victoria|Towan]]<br />
| near-se = [[Wood Wood, Victoria|Wood Wood]], [[Miralie, Victoria|Miralie]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Piangil''', once frequently spelled "Pyangil", is a town in the [[The Mallee|Mallee]] region of northern [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]. It is approximately {{convert|382|km|mi|0}} north-west of the state capital, [[Melbourne]] and {{convert|46|km|mi}} north-west of the regional centre of [[Swan Hill]]. At the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Piangil and the surrounding rural area had a population of 259.<ref name=ABS2016/><br />
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The name of the town is derived from the Piangil [[pastoralism|pastoral]] run, taken up in 1846 by [[William Coghill]]. It is thought that the name was derived from an [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] word for the [[Murray cod]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Piangil |url=https://www.victorianplaces.com.au/piangil |website=Victorian Places |access-date=2025-05-14}}</ref><br />
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Piangil post office opened on 17 June 1907, and was renamed Piangil North in 1918 when the Piangil post office was relocated adjacent to the railway station. A new Piangil post office opened in 1921 and is still in operation.<ref name = "a">{{Citation | last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Piangil* | access-date = 2 April 2021}}</ref><br />
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Piangil Primary School closed in September 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/small-school-closures-continue-in-rural-victoria/news-story/35f1193bf26c4d9a040ecb7d45641964 |last1=Twomey |first1=Shannon |last2=Zervos |first2=Cassie |title=Small school closures continue in rural Victoria |work=The Weekly Times |date=5 November 2015 |access-date=31 January 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:Piangil General Store 002.JPG|General store, 2012<br />
File:Piangil 2009.jpg|Grain storage, 2009<br />
File:Piangil Primary School.JPG|Former Primary school, 2012<br />
File:Piangil Post Office.JPG|Post office, 2012<br />
File:Piangil District Bowling Club.JPG|Former bowling club, 2012<br />
</gallery><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{commons category-inline|Piangil, Victoria}}<br />
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{{Towns in the Rural City of Swan Hill}}<br />
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[[Category:Towns in Victoria (state)]]<br />
[[Category:Rural City of Swan Hill]]<br />
[[Category:Populated places on the Murray River]]<br />
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