Popondetta
Popondetta is the capital of Oro Province in Papua New Guinea. In 1951 the city became the focus of relief efforts after nearby Mount Lamington erupted and killed 4,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 75,800 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Popendetta”
Popondetta
- Category: locality
- Location: Sohe District, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-8.76674° or 8° 46′ 0″ southLongitude
148.23751° or 148° 14′ 15″ eastPopulation
75,800Elevation
106 metres (348 feet)IATA airport code
PNPUnited Nations Location Code
PG PNPOpen location code
6R3C66MQ+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 302475401OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2088163Wikidata ID
Q1017376
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Popondetta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوبونديتا”
- Asturian: “Popondetta”
- Cebuano: “Popondetta (kapital sa lalawigan sa Papua New Guinea)”
- Cebuano: “Popondetta”
- Chinese: “波蓬德塔”
- Dutch: “Popondetta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوبونديتا”
- Estonian: “Popondetta”
- Estonian: “Popondota”
- French: “Popondetta”
- Galician: “Popondetta”
- German: “Popondetta”
- Hebrew: “פופונדטה”
- Indonesian: “Popondetta”
- Italian: “Popondetta Urban”
- Italian: “Popondetta”
- Japanese: “ポポンデッタ”
- Korean: “포폰데타”
- Lithuanian: “Popondeta”
- Mingrelian: “პოპონდეტა”
- Persian: “پوپوندتا”
- Polish: “Popondetta”
- Portuguese: “Popondetta”
- Russian: “Попондетта”
- Spanish: “Popondetta”
- Tok Pisin: “Popondetta”
- Ukrainian: “Попондетта”
- Urdu: “پوپوندیتا”
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