West Papua
West Papua, formerly Irian Jaya Barat, is an Indonesian province located in Indonesia Papua. It covers most of the two western peninsulas of the island of New Guinea: the eastern half of the Bird's Head Peninsula and the whole of the Bomberai Peninsula, along with nearby smaller islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: province of Indonesia with 552,000 residents
- Description: province of Indonesia
- Also known as: “Irian Jaya Barat”, “West Irian Jaya”, and “West Papua Province”
- Historically known as: “Provinsi Irian Jaya Barat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rendani Airport.
Rendani Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: YoshiPlanet, CC BY 3.0.
Rendani Airport, in Manokwari, West Papua, Indonesia, is one of the largest and busiest airports in West Papua. The airport has one runway, designated 17/35, with an asphalt surface measuring 2,000 by 45 meters.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manokwari and East Manokwari.
Manokwari
Photo: Elton Ray Airori, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Manokwari is a city of 107,000 people in Papua. Manokwari is the capital city of West Papua province, and a hub city.
West Papua
- Location: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“West Papua” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Papua Barat”
- Arabic: “إيريان جايا الغربية”
- Arabic: “إيريان جايا غرب”
- Arabic: “بابوا الغربية”
- Arabic: “غرب بابوا”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Պապուա”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Papúa Occidental”
- Balinese: “Papua Barat”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Papua”
- Batak Mandailing: “Papua Barat”
- Batak Toba: “Papua Pastima”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম পাপুয়া প্রদেশ”
- Betawi: “Papua Kulon”
- Bulgarian: “Западна Папуа”
- Catalan: “Província de Papua Occidental”
- Cebuano: “Provinsi Papua Barat”
- Chinese: “Sai Papua Séng”
- Chinese: “西巴布亞”
- Chinese: “西巴布亞省”
- Croatian: “Zapadna Papua”
- Czech: “Západní Papua”
- Danish: “West Papua Province”
- Dutch: “West-Papoea”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Papuo”
- Esperanto: “Papuo-Barato”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Paapua provints”
- Fijian: “Ra Papua”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Papua”
- French: “Papouasie occidentale”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი პაპუა”
- German: “Irian Jaya Barat”
- German: “Papua Barat”
- German: “Westpapua”
- Gorontalo: “Papua Barat”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Δυτικής Παπούα”
- Guianese Creole French: “Papouazi oksidantal”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમ પપુઆ પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî Papua”
- Hebrew: “מערב פפואה”
- Hebrew: “פפואה המערבית”
- Hindi: “पश्चिम पापुआ प्रांत”
- Hindi: “पश्चिम पापुआ”
- Iloko: “Laud a Papua”
- Indonesian: “Irian Jaya Barat”
- Indonesian: “Papua Barat”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Irian Jaya Barat”
- Indonesian: “Prov. Papua Barat”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Irian Jaya Barat”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Papua Barat”
- Irish: “Papua Thiar”
- Italian: “Papua Occidentale”
- Japanese: “西イリアン・ジャヤ”
- Japanese: “西イリアン・ジャヤ州”
- Japanese: “西イリアンジャヤ”
- Japanese: “西イリアンジャヤ州”
- Japanese: “西パプア州”
- Javanese: “Papua Kulon”
- Javanese: “Papuah Kulon”
- Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಪಪುವಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Komering: “Papua Barat”
- Komering: “Papua Lawok”
- Korean: “서파푸아주”
- Latvian: “Rietumpapua province”
- Latvian: “Rietumpapua”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Papua”
- Macedonian: “Западна Папуа”
- Madurese: “Papua Bârâ‘”
- Malay: “Papua Barat”
- Malayalam: “വെസ്റ്റ് പപുവ”
- Marathi: “पश्चिम पापुआ प्रांत”
- Marathi: “पश्चिम पापुआ”
- Mazanderani: “غربی پاپوآ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Să̤ Papua”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai Papua”
- Minangkabau: “Papua Barat”
- Mingrelian: “ბჟადალი პაპუა”
- Northern Frisian: “Papua Barat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Papua Barat”
- Norwegian: “Papua Barat”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Papoa occidentala”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Papoa occidentala”
- Persian: “پاپوآی غربی”
- Polish: “Papua Zachodnia”
- Portuguese: “Papua Ocidental”
- Russian: “Западное Папуа”
- Santali: “ᱯᱟᱪᱮ ᱯᱟᱯᱩᱣᱟ (ᱯᱚᱱᱚᱛ)”
- Santali: “ᱯᱟᱪᱮ ᱯᱟᱯᱩᱣᱟ”
- Scots: “Wast Papua”
- Serbian: “Западна Папуа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadna Papua”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර පැපුවා පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර පැපුවා පළාත”
- Slovak: “Západná Papua”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna Irian Džaja”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna Papua”
- Spanish: “Papua Occidental”
- Spanish: “Papúa Occidental”
- Spanish: “provincia de Papua Occidental”
- Spanish: “provincia de Papúa Occidental”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Papúa Occidental”
- Sundanese: “Papua Kulon”
- Swedish: “Papua Barat”
- Tamil: “மேலைப் பப்புவா”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு இரியான் ஜாயா”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு இரியான்”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு பப்புவா மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு பப்புவா”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு பாப்புவா”
- Tamil: “மேற்குப் பப்புவா மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “மேற்குப் பப்புவா”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш Папуа”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ పాపువా ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ పాపువా రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดปาปัวตะวันตก”
- Turkish: “Batı Papua”
- Ukrainian: “Західне Папуа”
- Urdu: “مغربی پاپوا (صوبہ)”
- Urdu: “مغربی پاپوا”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Papua”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katundan nga Papua”
- Welsh: “Gorllewin Papua”
- Western Armenian: “Արեւմտեան Փափուա”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبا لہندا پاپوا”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ لہندا پاپوا”
- Wu Chinese: “西巴布亞省”
- Yakut: “Арҕаа Папуа”
- Yue Chinese: “西巴布亞”
- “Irian Jaya Barat”
- “Papua Barat”
- “Papua Kulon”
- “Prov. Papua Barat”
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