Central Province
Central Province is a province in Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast of the country. It has a population of 237,016 people and is 29,998 square kilometres in size.- Type: State with 270,000 residents
- Description: province of Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Central District”, “PG-CPM”, “సెంట్రల్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”, “중부 주”, and “中央州 (パプアニューギニア)”
Central Province
- Categories: province of Papua New Guinea and locality
- Location: Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-10° or 10° south
Longitude
148° east
Population
270,000
Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)
Open location code
6R2C2222+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Central Province” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማዕከላዊ ክልል”
- Arabic: “المحافظة الوسطى”
- Azerbaijani: “Mərkəzi Provinsiyası”
- Basque: “Erdialdeko probintzia”
- Bengali: “সেন্ট্রাল প্রদেশ”
- Bosnian: “Centralna pokrajina (Papua Nova Gvineja)”
- Bosnian: “Centralna pokrajina”
- Bulgarian: “Централна провинция”
- Catalan: “Província Central”
- Cebuano: “Central Province (lalawigan sa Papua New Guinea)”
- Cebuano: “Central Province”
- Chinese: “中央省”
- Danish: “Central Province”
- Dutch: “Central”
- Esperanto: “Centra Provinco”
- Estonian: “Keskprovints”
- Finnish: “Central Province”
- Finnish: “Keskiprovinssi”
- French: “province centrale”
- French: “Province centrale”
- Galician: “Central, Papúa-Nova Guinea”
- Galician: “Central”
- Georgian: “ცენტრალური პროვინცია”
- German: “Central Province”
- German: “Zentralprovinz”
- Greek: “Κεντρική Επαρχία, Παπούα Νέα Γουινέα”
- Greek: “Κεντρική Επαρχία”
- Gujarati: “સેન્ટ્રલ પ્રાંત”
- Hausa: “Central Province”
- Hindi: “केंद्रीय प्रांत”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Tengah, Papua Nugini”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Tengah”
- Italian: “provincia Centrale”
- Italian: “Provincia Centrale”
- Japanese: “中央州”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Tengah”
- Kannada: “ಮಧ್ಯ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Орталық провинциясы”
- Kirghiz: “Борбордук провинциясы”
- Korean: “중앙주”
- Latvian: “Centrālā province”
- Lithuanian: “Centrinė provincija”
- Malay: “Central Province”
- Marathi: “मध्यवर्ती प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong-pō͘ Séng (Papua New Guinea)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong-pō͘ Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Central”
- Norwegian: “Central”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Giddugaleessa”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਂਦਰੀ ਸੂਬਾ”
- Persian: “استان مرکزی”
- Polish: “Prowincja Centralna”
- Portuguese: “Central”
- Portuguese: “Província Central”
- Pushto: “مرکزي ولایت”
- Romanian: “Provincia Centrală”
- Russian: “Центральная провинция”
- Sinhala: “මද්යම පළාත”
- Sinhala: “මධ්යම පළාත, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
- Slovenian: “Osrednja provinca”
- Somali: “Gobolka Dhexe”
- Spanish: “Provincia Central”
- Swahili: “Kanda cha Kati”
- Swedish: “Central, Papua Nya Guinea”
- Swedish: “Central”
- Swiss German: “Central Province”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Марказӣ”
- Tamil: “சென்ட்ரல் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Үзәк провинциясы”
- Telugu: “సెంట్రల్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Thai: “เซ็นทรัล โพวิ้น”
- Tok Pisin: “Sentral Provins”
- Turkish: “Central Province”
- Ukrainian: “Центральна провінція”
- Urdu: “مرکزی صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Markaziy provinsiya (Papua Yangi Gvineya)”
- Uzbek: “Markaziy provinsiya”
- Uzbek: “Markaziy provinsiyasi”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Trung ương, Papua New Guinea”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Trung Ương”
- Western Panjabi: “مڈلا صوبہ”
- Wu Chinese: “中央省 (巴布亚新几内亚)”
- Wu Chinese: “中央省（巴布亚新几内亚）”
- Wu Chinese: “中央省”
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