Panguna
Panguna is a town in the south-central interior of Bougainville Island, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea. It was founded as a mining town by Bougainville Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, to house miners from the nearby Panguna copper mine.- Village with about 2,920 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 600 metres (1,960 feet)
- Description: Town in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Places of Interest
Highlights include Panguna mine.
Panguna
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Latitude
-6.30478° or 6° 18′ 17″ south
Longitude
155.48817° or 155° 29′ 17″ east
Open location code
6R5QMFWQ+37
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OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Panguna” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Panguna”
- Belarusian: “Пангуна”
- Cebuano: “Panguna”
- Chinese: “潘古納”
- Chinese: “潘古纳”
- Dutch: “Panguna”
- French: “Panguna”
- German: “Pangunamine”
- Hungarian: “Panguna”
- Japanese: “パングナ”
- Persian: “پانگونا”
- Polish: “Panguna”
- Russian: “Пангуна”
- Serbian: “Пангуна”
- Ukrainian: “Пангуна”
- Urdu: “پانگونا”
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