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Papua New Guinea

Oro Province

Oro Province, formerly Northern Province, is a coastal province in the Southern Region of . The provincial capital is . The province covers 22,800 km2, and has 176,206 inhabitants.
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  • Type: State with 186,000 residents
  • Description: province of Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as: “Northern District”, “Northern Division”, “Northern Province”, and “Oro (Northern) Province”

Oro Province

Latitude
-9° or 9° south
Longitude
148.5° or 148° 30′ east
Population
186,000
Elevation
110 metres (361 feet)
Open location code
6R3C2G22+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304993849
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2089478
Wiki­data ID
Q753686
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Oro Province” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة أورو”
  • Asturian: “Provincia d’Oro”
  • Basque: “Iparraldeko probintzia”
  • Basque: “Oro”
  • Bengali: “ওরো প্রদেশ”
  • Bosnian: “Oro”
  • Bulgarian: “Оро”
  • Catalan: “Província d’Oro”
  • Cebuano: “Northern Province (lalawigan sa Papua New Guinea)”
  • Cebuano: “Northern Province”
  • Chinese: “Oro Séng”
  • Chinese: “北部省”
  • Danish: “Oro Province”
  • Dutch: “Northern”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Oro”
  • Estonian: “Põhjaprovints”
  • Finnish: “Oro”
  • Finnish: “Oró”
  • French: “Northern Province”
  • French: “Oro”
  • French: “Province d’Oro”
  • French: “Province du Nord”
  • French: “province nord”
  • Galician: “Oro”
  • Georgian: “ორო”
  • German: “Oro Province”
  • German: “Oro-Provinz”
  • German: “Oro”
  • German: “PG-NPP”
  • Greek: “Όρο (Βόρεια Επαρχία)”
  • Greek: “Όρο”
  • Gujarati: “ઓરો પ્રાંત”
  • Hebrew: “פרובינציית אורו”
  • Hindi: “ओरो प्रांत”
  • Iloko: “Probinsia ti Oro”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Oro”
  • Italian: “provincia di Oro”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Oro”
  • Japanese: “オロ州”
  • Kannada: “ಓರೋ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Korean: “오로주”
  • Latin: “Provincia Oro”
  • Latvian: “Oro province”
  • Lithuanian: “Oro provincija”
  • Malay: “Oro Province”
  • Marathi: “ओरो प्रांत”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oro Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oro”
  • Norwegian: “Oro”
  • Persian: “استان اورو”
  • Persian: “استان شمالی”
  • Polish: “Oro”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Północna”
  • Portuguese: “Oro”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Oro”
  • Russian: “Оро”
  • Sinhala: “ඔරෝ පළාත, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ඔරෝ පළාත”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Oro”
  • Swedish: “Oro”
  • Swiss German: “Oro”
  • Tamil: “ஒரோ மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “ఓరో ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “ఓరో రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดนอร์ทเทิร์น”
  • Tok Pisin: “Oro”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Oro”
  • Turkish: “Oro Province”
  • Ukrainian: “Оро”
  • Urdu: “اورو صوبہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Oro”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Oro”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اورو”

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