Morobe Province
Morobe is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital and largest city is Lae. The province covers 33,705 km2, with a population of 674,810, and since the division of Southern Highlands Province in May 2012 it is the most populous province.- Type: State with 998,000 residents
- Description: province of Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Morobe District”, “Morobe-Provinz”, “PG-MPL”, “Provinca Morobe”, “موروبه”, and “మోరోబ్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salamaua.
Morobe Province
- Categories: province of Papua New Guinea and locality
- Location: Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-7° or 7° south
Longitude
147° east
Population
998,000
Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)
Open location code
6R592222+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Morobe Province” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሞሮብ ክልል”
- Arabic: “محافظة موروب”
- Asturian: “Morobe”
- Azerbaijani: “Morobe Provinsiyası”
- Basque: “Morobe”
- Bengali: “মোরবে প্রদেশের”
- Bosnian: “Morobe”
- Breton: “Morobe”
- Bulgarian: “Моробе”
- Catalan: “Morobe”
- Cebuano: “Morobe Province”
- Chinese: “莫罗贝省”
- Chinese: “莫雷貝省”
- Chinese: “莫雷贝省”
- Danish: “Morobe Province”
- Dutch: “Morobe”
- Esperanto: “Morobe”
- Estonian: “Morobe provints”
- Finnish: “Morobe”
- Finnish: “Moroben lääni”
- French: “Morobe”
- Galician: “Morobe”
- Georgian: “მორობე”
- German: “Morobe Province”
- Greek: “Μορόμπε”
- Gujarati: “મોરોબે પ્રાંત”
- Hausa: “Morobe Province”
- Hindi: “मोरोबे प्रांत”
- Iloko: “Probinsia ti Morobe”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Morobe”
- Italian: “provincia di Morobe”
- Italian: “Provincia di Morobe”
- Japanese: “モロベ州”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Morobe”
- Kannada: “ಮೊರೊಬ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Мороб провинциясы”
- Kirghiz: “Мороб провинциясы”
- Korean: “모로베주”
- Latvian: “Morobes province”
- Lithuanian: “Morobės provincija”
- Malay: “Morobe Province”
- Marathi: “मोरोबे प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Morobe Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Morobe provins”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Morobe”
- Panjabi: “ਮੋਰੋਬ ਸੂਬਾ”
- Persian: “استان موروبه”
- Polish: “Morobe”
- Portuguese: “Morobe”
- Pushto: “مورب ولایت”
- Romanian: “Provincia Morobe”
- Russian: “Моробе”
- Sinhala: “මොරෝබේ පළාත, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
- Sinhala: “මොරෝබේ පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Morobe Province”
- Somali: “Gobolka Morobe”
- Spanish: “Morobe”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Morobe”
- Swahili: “Kanda cha Morobe”
- Swedish: “Morobe”
- Swiss German: “Morobe Province”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Мороб”
- Tamil: “மோரா மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Мороб провинциясы”
- Telugu: “మోరోబ్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัด โมโรเบ”
- Tok Pisin: “Morobe”
- Turkish: “Morobe Province”
- Ukrainian: “Моробе”
- Urdu: “موروبے صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Morobe provinsiyasi”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Morobe”
- Welsh: “Talaith Morobe”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ موروب”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Womasu and Buakap.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Asini Lutheran Church and Malalo Mission Church.
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