Special Region of Papua
Papua, formerly known as West Irian and Irian Jaya, is a province of Indonesia, comprising the northern coast of Western New Guinea together with island groups in Cenderawasih Bay to the west.- Province of Indonesia with about 4,540,000 residents
- Also known as“Daerah Tingkat I Irian Barat”“Nieuw-Guinea”“Nieuw-Guinee”“Papua”“Papua Province”“Tanah Papua”“West Irian”“West New Guinea”
- Historically known as“Dutch New Guinea”“Irian”“Irian Barat”“Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea”“Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinee”“Netherland New Guinea”“Netherlands New Guinea”“Propinsi Irian Barat”“Propinsi Irian Jaya”
- Location
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Latitude
-2.5903° or 2° 35′ 25″ south
Longitude
139.4156° or 139° 24′ 56″ east
Open location code
6Q9XCC58+V7
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Special Region of Papua” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Papua”
- Afrikaans: “Papoea”
- Amharic: “ፓፑዋ”
- Arabic: “بابوا (إندونسيا)”
- Arabic: “بابوا”
- Armenian: “Պապուա (Ինդոնեզիայի գավառ)”
- Armenian: “Պապուա”
- Azerbaijani: “Papua”
- Balinese: “Papua”
- Basque: “Papua”
- Batak Toba: “Papua”
- Belarusian: “Папуа”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Папуа”
- Bengali: “পাপুয়া প্রদেশ”
- Bengali: “পাপুয়া”
- Betawi: “Papua (propinsi)”
- Betawi: “Papua”
- Bulgarian: “Папуа”
- Catalan: “Província de Papua”
- Cebuano: “Provinsi Papua”
- Chinese: “巴布亚省”
- Czech: “Papua”
- Danish: “Papua Province”
- Dimli (individual language): “Papua”
- Dutch: “Papoea”
- Esperanto: “Papuo”
- Estonian: “Paapua provints”
- Finnish: “Papua”
- French: “Papouasie”
- French: “Papua”
- Galician: “provincia de Papúa”
- Georgian: “პაპუა”
- German: “Papua”
- German: “Provinz Papua”
- Gorontalo: “Papua”
- Greek: “Παπούα”
- Guianese Creole French: “Papouazi (provens endonézyenn)”
- Guianese Creole French: “Papouazi”
- Gujarati: “પાપુઆ પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Papua”
- Hausa: “Papua”
- Hebrew: “פפאוה”
- Hindi: “इण्डोनेशियाई पापुआ”
- Hindi: “इरियन जया”
- Hindi: “इर्जा”
- Hindi: “पापुआ प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “पापुआ”
- Hindi: “मध्य इरियन जया”
- Iloko: “Papua”
- Indonesian: “Irian Jaya Timur”
- Indonesian: “Irian Jaya”
- Indonesian: “Papua”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Daerah Tingkat I Irian Jaya”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Irian Barat”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Irian Jaya Timur”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Irian Jaya”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Otonom Irian Barat”
- Indonesian: “Prov. Papua”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Irian Jaya”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Papua”
- Irish: “Papua”
- Italian: “Papua”
- Japanese: “イリアン・ジャヤ州”
- Japanese: “パプア州”
- Javanese: “Papua”
- Javanese: “Papuah”
- Kannada: “ಪಪುವಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Папуа”
- Kirghiz: “Папуа”
- Komering: “Papua”
- Korean: “파푸아주”
- Latin: “Papua”
- Latvian: “Papua province”
- Latvian: “Papua”
- Lithuanian: “Papua”
- Macedonian: “Папуа”
- Madurese: “Papua”
- Malay: “Papua”
- Malayalam: “പപുവ”
- Marathi: “पापुआ प्रांत”
- Marathi: “पापुआ”
- Mazanderani: “پاپوآ اوستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Papua”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Papua Séng”
- Minangkabau: “Papua”
- Mingrelian: “პაპუა”
- Northern Frisian: “Papua (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Papua”
- Northern Luri: “پاپوآ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Papua (provins)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Papua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Papuaprovinsen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Papua-provinsen”
- Norwegian: “Papua”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Papoa”
- Oromo: “Papuwaa”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਪੁਆ”
- Persian: “پاپوا”
- Polish: “Papua”
- Portuguese: “Papua”
- Pushto: “پاپوا”
- Romanian: “Papua”
- Russian: “Папуа”
- Santali: “ᱯᱟᱯᱩᱣᱟ (ᱯᱚᱱᱚᱛ)”
- Santali: “ᱯᱟᱯᱩᱣᱟ”
- Scots: “Papua”
- Serbian: “Папуа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Papua”
- Sicilian: “Papua (pruvincia Indunesia)”
- Sicilian: “Papua”
- Sinhala: “පැපුවා පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Sinhala: “පැපුවා පළාත”
- Slovak: “Papua”
- Slovenian: “Papua”
- Somali: “Papuwa”
- Spanish: “Papúa”
- Spanish: “Papuasia”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Papúa”
- Sundanese: “Papua”
- Swahili: “Papua”
- Swedish: “Papua”
- Tajik: “Папуа”
- Tamil: “பப்புவா மாநிலம்”
- Tamil: “பப்புவா”
- Tatar: “Папуа”
- Telugu: “పాపువా ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “పాపువా రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดปาปัว”
- Tok Pisin: “Irian Jaya”
- Turkish: “Papua”
- Ukrainian: “Папуа”
- Urdu: “پاپوا (صوبہ)”
- Urdu: “پاپوا”
- Uzbek: “Papua”
- Venetian: “Papua”
- Vietnamese: “Papua”
- Waray (Philippines): “Papua”
- Welsh: “Papua”
- Western Armenian: “Փափուա”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبا پاپوا”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پاپوا”
- Wu Chinese: “巴布亞省”
- Yue Chinese: “巴布亞”
- “Irian Barat”
- “ma kipisi Papuwa”
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