Gizo Government Station
Gizo is the capital of the Western Province in Solomon Islands. The town had a population of 4,620 as of 2019. It is situated on Ghizo Island approximately 380 kilometres west-northwest of the capital, Honiara, and is just southwest of the larger island of Kolombangara.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Town with 7,180 residents
- Description: capital city of Western Province, Solomon Islands
- Also known as: “Ghizo”, “Gizo”, and “Gizo, Solomon Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Peter’s Cathedral.
St. Peter’s Cathedral
Church
The St. Peter's Cathedral also called Gizo Cathedral is the cathedral affiliated to the Catholic Church that is located in the city of Gizo, the second largest locality in the Solomon Islands a country of Oceania.
Gizo Government Station
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-8.10547° or 8° 6′ 20″ south
Longitude
156.84136° or 156° 50′ 29″ east
Population
7,180
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
GZO
United Nations Location Code
SB GZO
Open location code
6R3RVRVR+RG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Veps—“Gizo Government Station” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጊዞ”
- Arabic: “جيزو”
- Asturian: “Gizo”
- Azerbaijani: “Gizo”
- Bengali: “গিজো”
- Cebuano: “Gizo (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Gizo”
- Chinese: “吉佐”
- Czech: “Gizo”
- Dutch: “Gizo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيزو”
- Fijian: “Gizo”
- Finnish: “Gizo”
- French: “Gizo”
- Galician: “Gizo”
- German: “Gizo”
- Hausa: “Gizo”
- Hebrew: “גיזו”
- Hindi: “गिजो”
- Indonesian: “Gizo”
- Italian: “Gizo”
- Japanese: “ギゾ”
- Javanese: “Gizo”
- Kazakh: “Гизо”
- Kirghiz: “Гизо”
- Korean: “기조”
- Lithuanian: “Gizas”
- Malay: “Gizo”
- Nauru: “Gizo”
- Northern Frisian: “Gizo”
- Oromo: “Gizo”
- Panjabi: “ਗਿਜ਼ੋ”
- Persian: “گیزو، جزایر سلیمان”
- Persian: “گیزو”
- Polish: “Gizo”
- Portuguese: “Gizo”
- Pushto: “ګیزو”
- Russian: “Гизо”
- Sinhala: “ගිසෝ, සොලමන් දූපත්”
- Somali: “Gizo”
- Spanish: “Gizo”
- Swahili: “Gizo”
- Swedish: “Gizo, Salomonöarna”
- Swedish: “Gizo”
- Tajik: “Гизо”
- Tatar: “Гизо”
- Turkish: “Gizo”
- Urdu: “گیزو، جزائر سلیمان”
- Urdu: “گیزو”
- Uzbek: “Gizo”
- Veps: “Gizo”
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