Kokopo
Kokopo is the capital of East New Britain Province in Papua New Guinea. It is administered under Kokopo/Vunamami Urban LLG. The capital was moved from Rabaul in 1994 when the volcanoes Tavurvur and Vulcan erupted.- Type: Town with 25,600 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Kokopo-Vunamami Urban”
Kokopo
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-4.34322° or 4° 20′ 36″ south
Longitude
152.26867° or 152° 16′ 7″ east
Population
25,600
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
6R7JM749+PF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Kokopo” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኮኮፖ”
- Arabic: “كوكوبو”
- Asturian: “Kokopo”
- Azerbaijani: “Kokopo”
- Belarusian: “Кокапа”
- Bengali: “কোকোপো”
- Bosnian: “Kokopo”
- Breton: “Kokopo”
- Catalan: “Kokopo”
- Cebuano: “Kokopo (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Kokopo”
- Chinese: “科可波”
- Chinese: “科科波”
- Dutch: “Kokopo”
- Estonian: “Kokopo”
- French: “Kokopo”
- Galician: “Kokopo”
- German: “Herbertshöhe”
- German: “Kokopo”
- Hausa: “Kokopo”
- Hebrew: “קוקופו”
- Hindi: “कोकोपो”
- Icelandic: “Kokopo”
- Indonesian: “Kokopo”
- Irish: “Kokopo”
- Italian: “Kokopo”
- Japanese: “ココポ”
- Javanese: “Kokopo”
- Kazakh: “Кокопо”
- Kirghiz: “Кокопо”
- Korean: “코코포”
- Malay: “Kokopo”
- Mingrelian: “კოკოპო”
- Oromo: “Kokopo”
- Panjabi: “ਕੋਕੋਪੋ”
- Persian: “کوکوپو”
- Polish: “Kokopo”
- Portuguese: “Kokopo”
- Pushto: “کوکوپو”
- Russian: “Кокопо”
- Slovenian: “Kokopo”
- Somali: “Kokopo”
- Spanish: “Kokopo”
- Swahili: “Kokopo”
- Swedish: “Kokopo”
- Tajik: “Кокопо”
- Tatar: “Кокопо”
- Tok Pisin: “Kokopo”
- Turkish: “Kokopo”
- Ukrainian: “Кокопо”
- Urdu: “کوکوپو”
- Uzbek: “Kokopo”
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