Gizo Government Station
Gizo is the capital of the Western Province in Solomon Islands. With a population of 7,177, it is the third largest town in the country. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,180 residents
- Description: capital city of Western Province, Solomon Islands
- Also known as: “Ghizo”, “Gizo”, and “Gizo, Solomon Islands”
Gizo Government Station
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-8.10547° or 8° 6′ 20″ southLongitude
156.84136° or 156° 50′ 29″ eastPopulation
7,180Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
GZOUnited Nations Location Code
SB GZOOpen location code
6R3RVRVR+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 1958106184OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2108857Wikidata ID
Q1236908
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Veps—“Gizo Government Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيزو”
- Asturian: “Gizo”
- 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”
- Italian: “Gizo”
- Japanese: “ギゾ”
- Korean: “기조”
- Lithuanian: “Gizas”
- Nauru: “Gizo”
- Persian: “گیزو، جزایر سلیمان”
- Polish: “Gizo”
- Portuguese: “Gizo”
- Russian: “Гизо”
- Sinhala: “ගිසෝ, සොලමන් දූපත්”
- Spanish: “Gizo”
- Swedish: “Gizo, Salomonöarna”
- Swedish: “Gizo”
- Urdu: “گیزو، جزائر سلیمان”
- Veps: “Gizo”
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