Salamaua
Salamaua was a small town situated on the northeastern coastline of Papua New Guinea, in Salamaua Rural LLG, Morobe province. The settlement was built on a minor isthmus between the coast with mountains on the inland side and a headland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Salamaua Government Station”, “Salamaua Station”, and “Salamoa”
Salamaua
- Categories: human settlement, peninsula, and locality
- Location: Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-7.05598° or 7° 3′ 22″ southLongitude
147.04827° or 147° 2′ 54″ eastElevation
68 metres (223 feet)United Nations Location Code
PG SMUOpen location code
6R49W2VX+J8OpenStreetMap ID
node 7688724220OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2087367Wikidata ID
Q611718
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Salamaua” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Salamaua Peninsula”
- Chinese: “萨拉毛亚”
- Chinese: “薩拉毛亞”
- Czech: “Salamaua”
- Dutch: “Salamaua”
- Esperanto: “Salamaua”
- Finnish: “Salamaua”
- French: “Salamaua”
- German: “Salamaua”
- Italian: “Salamaua Rural”
- Italian: “Salamaua”
- Japanese: “サラマウア”
- Persian: “سالامائوآ”
- Polish: “Salamaua”
- Portuguese: “Salamaua”
- Russian: “Саламауа”
- Urdu: “سلاموا”
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