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Special Region of Papua

Papua, formerly known as West Irian and Irian Jaya, is a province of , comprising the northern coast of together with island groups in to the west.
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  • Type: State with 1,020,000 residents
  • Description: province of Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Daerah Tingkat I Irian Barat”, “Nieuw-Guinea”, “Nieuw-Guinee”, “Papua”, “Papua Province”, “Tanah Papua”, “West Irian”, and “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”, and “Propinsi Irian Jaya”

Special Region of Papua

Latitude
-2.4749° or 2° 28′ 30″ south
Longitude
138.0849° or 138° 5′ 6″ east
Population
1,020,000
Elevation
168 metres (551 feet)
Open location code
6Q9WG3GM+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1898313611
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1643012
Wiki­data ID
Q5095
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Special Region of Papua” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Papua”
  • Afrikaans: “Papoea”
  • Arabic: “بابوا (إندونسيا)”
  • 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: “Papua Séng”
  • Chinese: “巴布亚省”
  • Chinese: “巴布亞”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “פפאוה”
  • Hindi: “इण्डोनेशियाई पापुआ”
  • Hindi: “इरियन जया”
  • Hindi: “इर्जा”
  • Hindi: “पापुआ प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “पापुआ”
  • Hindi: “मध्य इरियन जया”
  • Hungarian: “Pápua”
  • Iloko: “Papua”
  • Indonesian: “Papua”
  • Indonesian: “Prov. Papua”
  • Irish: “Papua”
  • Italian: “Papua”
  • Japanese: “イリアン・ジャヤ州”
  • Japanese: “イリアンジャヤ州”
  • Japanese: “パプア州”
  • Javanese: “Papua”
  • Javanese: “Papuah”
  • Kannada: “ಪಪುವಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • 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 Nynorsk: “Papuaprovinsen”
  • Norwegian: “Papua”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Papoa”
  • Persian: “پاپوآ”
  • Polish: “Papua”
  • Portuguese: “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”
  • Spanish: “Papúa”
  • Spanish: “Papuasia”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Papúa”
  • Sundanese: “Papua”
  • Swedish: “Papua”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “Papua”

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