Mangana, Tasmania

{{Use Australian English|date=May 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Mangana

| state = tas

| coordinates={{Coord|-41.5406|147.8785|format=dms|type:city_region:AU-TAS|display=inline,title}}

| image =

| caption =

| pop = 38

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}

| pop_footnotes={{cite web |url=https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL60381 |title=2021 Census Quick Stats Mangana (Tas.) |author= |date=2022-06-22 |website=quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=2022-07-26 |quote=}}

| established =

| postcode = 7214

| elevation =

| region = North-east

| location1 = St Helens

| dist1 = 74

| dir1 = SW

| lga = Break O'Day

| stategov = Lyons

| fedgov = Lyons

| maxtemp =

| mintemp =

| rainfall =

| near-nw = Mathinna

| near-n = Mathinna

| near-ne = Mathinna

| near-e = Fingal

| near-w = Ben Lomond

| near-sw = Rossarden

| near-s = Fingal

| near-se = Fingal

}}

Mangana is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Break O'Day in the North-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about {{convert|74|km}} south-west of the town of St Helens. The 2016 census recorded a population of 36 for the state suburb of Mangana.{{cite web |url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC60377?opendocument |title=2016 Census Quick Stats Mangana (Tas.) |author= |date=23 October 2017 |website=quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=13 September 2020 |quote=}}

==History==

Mangana was gazetted as a locality in 1973. The name was in use by 1877.{{cite web |url=https://www.placenames.tas.gov.au/#p1 |title=Placenames Tasmania – Mangana |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Placenames Tasmania |access-date=13 September 2020 |at=Select “Search”, enter "1110Y", click “Search”, select row, map is displayed, click “Details”}}

Gold was discovered in the area in 1852. It was named for an Aboriginal who was the father of Truganini.{{cite web|url=https://eprints.utas.edu.au/22682/3/dennison-L-Z-opt.pdf |title=Where in Tasmania? L-Z Page 15 |publisher=Dennison Publications |date=July 2003 |access-date=14 December 2020}}