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Papua New Guinea

Gulf Province

Gulf Province is a province of located on the southern coast. The provincial capital is . The 34,472 km2 province is dominated by mountains, lowland river deltas, and grassland flood plains.
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  • Type: State with 158,000 residents
  • Description: province of Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as: “Gulf” and “Gulf District”

Gulf Province

Latitude
-7.5556° or 7° 33′ 20″ south
Longitude
144.885° or 144° 53′ 6″ east
Population
158,000
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
Open location code
6R46CVVP+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304993899
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2096633
Wiki­data ID
Q874980
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Gulf Province” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الخليج”
  • Asturian: “Provincia del Golfu”
  • Basque: “Golkoa (Papua Ginea Berria)”
  • Basque: “Golkoa”
  • Bengali: “ডোলেঞ্জস্কা টপ্লিস পৌরসভা”
  • Bosnian: “Gulf”
  • Bulgarian: “Гулф”
  • Bulgarian: “Гълф”
  • Catalan: “Província del Golf”
  • Cebuano: “Gulf Province”
  • Chinese: “Gulf Séng”
  • Chinese: “海湾省”
  • Chinese: “海灣省”
  • Danish: “Gulf”
  • Dutch: “Gulf”
  • Esperanto: “Gulf Province”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Golfo”
  • Estonian: “Gulfi provints”
  • Finnish: “Gulf”
  • French: “Golfe”
  • French: “Gulf Province”
  • French: “Gulf”
  • Galician: “Gulf”
  • Georgian: “გალფის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Golfprovinz”
  • German: “Gulf Province”
  • German: “Gulf”
  • German: “PG-GPK”
  • Greek: “Κόλπος, Παπούα Νέα Γουινέα”
  • Greek: “Κόλπος”
  • Gujarati: “ગલ્ફ”
  • Hindi: “खाड़ी”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Gulf”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Teluk”
  • Italian: “provincia del Golfo”
  • Italian: “Provincia del Golfo”
  • Japanese: “湾岸州 (パプアニューギニア)”
  • Japanese: “湾岸州”
  • Kannada: “ಗಲ್ಫ್”
  • Korean: “걸프주”
  • Latvian: “Galfa”
  • Latvian: “Galfas province”
  • Lithuanian: “Galfas”
  • Lithuanian: “Įlankos provincija”
  • Malay: “Gulf”
  • Marathi: “गल्फ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gulf Séng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gulf”
  • Persian: “استان خلیج”
  • Polish: “Gulf”
  • Portuguese: “Gulf (província)”
  • Portuguese: “Gulf”
  • Russian: “Галф”
  • Russian: “Залив”
  • Sinhala: “ගල්ෆ් පළාත, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ගල්ෆ්”
  • Slovenian: “Gulf Province”
  • Slovenian: “Gulf”
  • Slovenian: “PG-GPK”
  • Slovenian: “Zalivska provinca”
  • Spanish: “Provincia del Golfo”
  • Swedish: “Gulf,”
  • Swedish: “Gulf”
  • Swiss German: “Gulf”
  • Tamil: “கோல்ப்”
  • Telugu: “గల్ఫ్”
  • Thai: “กัฟ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Gulf Provins”
  • Tok Pisin: “Gulf”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Gulf”
  • Turkish: “gulf”
  • Ukrainian: “Галф”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґулф”
  • Urdu: “گلف صوبہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Gulf”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ گلف”

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