Sandaun Province
Sandaun Province is the northwesternmost mainland province of Papua New Guinea. It covers an area of 35,920 km2 and has a population of 248,411. The capital is Vanimo.- Type: State with 363,000 residents
- Description: province of Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Lääne-Sepik”, “PG-SAN”, “Provincia di Sepik Ovest”, “Sandaun-Provinz”, “Sandauni provints”, “Sepik occidental”, “West Sepih District”, “West Sepik”, “West Sepik (Sandaun) Province”, “WSP”, “Западный Сепик”, “سانداون”, “سپیک غربی”, “సాండౌన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”, and “西セピック州”
Sandaun Province
- Categories: province of Papua New Guinea and locality
- Location: Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-3.5° or 3° 30′ south
Longitude
142° east
Population
363,000
Elevation
401 metres (1,316 feet)
Open location code
6R84G222+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Sandaun Province” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሳንዳውን ክልል”
- Arabic: “محافظة سانداون”
- Arabic: “محافظة ساندون”
- Asturian: “Sandaun”
- Azerbaijani: “Sandaun Provinsiyası”
- Basque: “Sandaun”
- Bengali: “স্যানডুয়ান প্রদেশ”
- Bosnian: “Sandaun”
- Breton: “Sandaun”
- Bulgarian: “Западен Сепик”
- Catalan: “Sandaun”
- Catalan: “West Sepik”
- Cebuano: “West Sepik Province”
- Chinese: “桑道恩省”
- Croatian: “Sandaun”
- Danish: “Sandaun Province”
- Dutch: “Sandaun”
- Esperanto: “Sandaun”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Sepiki provints”
- Estonian: “Sandaun”
- Finnish: “Sandaun”
- Finnish: “Sandaunin lääni”
- French: “Sandaun”
- Galician: “Sandaun”
- Georgian: “სანდაუნი”
- German: “Sandaun Province”
- Greek: “Σάντον”
- Gujarati: “સાન્ડોન પ્રાંત”
- Hausa: “Sandaun Province”
- Hindi: “सांडुन प्रांत”
- Iloko: “Probinsia ti Sandaun”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Sandaun”
- Italian: “provincia di Sandaun”
- Italian: “Provincia di Sandaun”
- Japanese: “サンダウン州”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Sandaun”
- Kannada: “ಸಾಂಡನ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Сандаун провинциясы”
- Kirghiz: “Сандаун провинциясы”
- Korean: “산다운주”
- Latvian: “Sandaunas province”
- Lithuanian: “Sandauno provincija”
- Malay: “Sandaun Province”
- Marathi: “सांडान प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sandaun Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandaun provins”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Sandaun”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਂਦਾਊਨ ਸੂਬਾ”
- Persian: “استان سانداون”
- Persian: “استان سپیک غربی”
- Polish: “Sandaun”
- Polish: “Sepik Zachodni”
- Portuguese: “Sandaun”
- Pushto: “سندون ولایت”
- Romanian: “Provincia Sandaun”
- Russian: “Сандаун”
- Rusyn: “Сандаун”
- Sinhala: “සැන්ඩවුන් පළාත, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
- Sinhala: “සැන්ඩුආන් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Sandaun”
- Somali: “Gobolka Sandaun”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Sandaun”
- Spanish: “Sandaun”
- Swahili: “Kanda cha Sandaun”
- Swedish: “Sandaun”
- Swiss German: “Sandaun”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Сандаун”
- Tamil: “சண்டையும் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Сандаун провинциясы”
- Telugu: “సాండౌన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซานดาอุน”
- Tok Pisin: “Sandaun”
- Turkish: “Sandaun Province”
- Ukrainian: “Сандаун”
- Urdu: “سانداون صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Sandaun provinsiyasi”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Sandaun”
- Welsh: “Talaith Sandaun”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ لیندا سیپک”
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