Chimbu Province
Chimbu, also spelled Simbu, is a province in the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea. The province has an area of 6,112 km2 and a population of 376,473.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: State with 292,000 residents
- Description: province of Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Chimbu District”, “Simbu”, and “Simbu Province”
Chimbu Province
- Categories: province of Papua New Guinea and locality
- Location: Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-6.25° or 6° 15′ southLongitude
144.8333° or 144° 50′ eastPopulation
292,000Elevation
1,721 metres (5,646 feet)Open location code
6R56QR2M+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 304993910OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
2098593Wikidata ID
Q599448
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Chimbu Province” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة تشيمبو”
- Basque: “Simbu”
- Bengali: “চিম্বু প্রদেশ”
- Bosnian: “Chimbu”
- Bulgarian: “Симбу”
- Catalan: “Chimbu”
- Catalan: “Simbu”
- Cebuano: “Chimbu Province”
- Chinese: “Chimbu Séng”
- Chinese: “欽布省”
- Chinese: “钦布省”
- Czech: “Chimbu”
- Danish: “Chimbu Province”
- Dutch: “Chimbu”
- Esperanto: “Simbu”
- Estonian: “Chimbu provints”
- Estonian: “Chimbu”
- Finnish: “Chimbun lääni”
- Finnish: “Simbu”
- French: “Simbu”
- Galician: “Simbu”
- Georgian: “სიმბუ”
- German: “Chimbu Province”
- Greek: “Σίμπου”
- Gujarati: “ચિમ્બુ પ્રાંત”
- Hindi: “किम्बू प्रांत”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Simbu”
- Italian: “provincia di Chimbu”
- Italian: “Provincia di Chimbu”
- Japanese: “シンブ州”
- Kannada: “ಚಿಂಬು ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “심부주”
- Latvian: “Simbu (Čimbu) province”
- Latvian: “Simbu province”
- Latvian: “Simbu”
- Lithuanian: “Čimbu provincija”
- Lithuanian: “Simbu provincija”
- Malay: “Simbu”
- Marathi: “चिंब प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chimbu Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Simbu provins”
- Persian: “استان چیمبو”
- Polish: “Simbu”
- Portuguese: “Chimbu”
- Portuguese: “Simbu”
- Romanian: “Provincia Simbu”
- Russian: “Симбу”
- Russian: “Чимбу”
- Sinhala: “චිම්බු පළාත, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
- Sinhala: “චිම්බු පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Chimbu Province”
- Slovenian: “Chimbu”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Chimbu”
- Slovenian: “Simbu”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Simbu”
- Spanish: “Simbu”
- Swedish: “Chimbu”
- Swedish: “Simbu”
- Swiss German: “Chimbu Province”
- Tamil: “சிம்பு மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “చింబూ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “చింబూ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดชิมบู”
- Tok Pisin: “Simbu”
- Tosk Albanian: “Chimbu Province”
- Turkish: “Chimbu”
- Ukrainian: “Сімбу”
- Urdu: “چیمبو صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Chimbu provinsiyasi”
- Vietnamese: “Chimbu”
- Vietnamese: “Simbu”
- Welsh: “Talaith Chimbu”
- Western Panjabi: “شمبو صوبہ”
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