Western Province
Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian provinces of Highland Papua and South Papua. The provincial capital is Daru.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: State with 201,000 residents
- Description: province of Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Fly Province”, “Fly River Province”, “Western (Fly) Province”, “Western District”, and “Western Division”
Western Province
- Categories: province of Papua New Guinea and locality
- Location: Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-7.5° or 7° 30′ southLongitude
142° eastPopulation
201,000Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)Open location code
6R44G222+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 304993836OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
2083549Wikidata ID
Q849790
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Western Province” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя правінцыя”
- Bosnian: “Zapadna pokrajina (Papua Nova Gvineja)”
- Bosnian: “Zapadna pokrajina”
- Bulgarian: “Западна провинция”
- Catalan: “Província de l’Oest”
- Catalan: “Província Occidental”
- Catalan: “Western”
- Cebuano: “Western Province (lalawigan sa Papua New Guinea)”
- Cebuano: “Western Province”
- Chinese: “Sai-pō͘ Séng”
- Chinese: “西部省”
- Dutch: “Western”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Provinco”
- Estonian: “Lääneprovints”
- Finnish: “Läntinen provinssi”
- Finnish: “Western Province”
- Finnish: “Western”
- French: “Province de l’Ouest”
- French: “Province ouest”
- French: “Western province”
- Galician: “Occidental, Papúa Nova Guinea”
- Galician: “Occidental, Papúa-Nova Guinea”
- Galician: “Occidental”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი პროვინცია”
- German: “PG-WPD”
- German: “Western Province”
- German: “Western-Province”
- German: “Westprovinz”
- Hungarian: “Western Provincia”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Barat, Papua Nugini”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Barat”
- Italian: “provincia Occidentale”
- Italian: “Provincia Occidentale”
- Japanese: “西部州 (パプアニューギニア)”
- Japanese: “西部州”
- Korean: “서부주”
- Latvian: “Rietumu province (Papua-Jaungvineja)”
- Latvian: “Rietumu province”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų provincija”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai-pō͘ Séng (Papua New Guinea)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai-pō͘ Séng”
- Persian: “استان غربی”
- Persian: “استان فلای”
- Polish: “Prowincja Zachodnia”
- Portuguese: “Província Ocidental”
- Russian: “Западная провинция”
- Serbian: “Западна покрајина”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර පළාත, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
- Slovenian: “PG-WPD”
- Slovenian: “Western Province”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna provinca”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna Provinca”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Fly”
- Spanish: “Provincia Occidental”
- Swedish: “Western Province, Papua Nya Guinea”
- Swedish: “Western Province”
- Swedish: “Western,”
- Swedish: “Western”
- Swiss German: “Western Province”
- Tok Pisin: “Westen Provins”
- Tok Pisin: “Western”
- Tosk Albanian: “Western Province”
- Ukrainian: “Західна провінція”
- Urdu: “مغربی صوبہ”
- Western Panjabi: “لیندا صوبہ، پاپوانیوگنی”
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