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Papua New Guinea

Central Province

Central Province is a province in located on the southern coast of the country. It has a population of 237,016 people and is 29,998 square kilometres in size.
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  • Type: State with 184,000 residents
  • Description: province of Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as: “Central District”

Central Province

Latitude
-10° or 10° south
Longitude
148° east
Population
184,000
Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)
Open location code
6R2C2222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304993871
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2133763
Wiki­data ID
Q874942
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Central Province” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المحافظة الوسطى”
  • 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: “Tiong-pō͘ Séng”
  • Chinese: “中央省”
  • Danish: “Central Province”
  • Dutch: “Central”
  • Esperanto: “Centra Provinco”
  • Estonian: “Keskprovints”
  • Finnish: “Central Province”
  • Finnish: “Central”
  • Finnish: “Keskiprovinssi”
  • French: “province centrale”
  • French: “Province centrale”
  • Galician: “Central, Papúa-Nova Guinea”
  • Galician: “Central”
  • Georgian: “ცენტრალური პროვინცია”
  • German: “Central Province”
  • German: “PG-CPM”
  • German: “Zentralprovinz”
  • Greek: “Κεντρική Επαρχία, Παπούα Νέα Γουινέα”
  • Greek: “Κεντρική Επαρχία”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટ્રલ પ્રાંત”
  • Hindi: “केंद्रीय प्रांत”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Tengah, Papua Nugini”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Tengah”
  • Italian: “provincia Centrale”
  • Italian: “Provincia Centrale”
  • Japanese: “中央州 (パプアニューギニア)”
  • Japanese: “中央州”
  • Kannada: “ಮಧ್ಯ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Korean: “중부 주”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “استان مرکزی”
  • Polish: “Central Province”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Centralna”
  • Portuguese: “Central”
  • Portuguese: “Província Central”
  • Romanian: “Central Province”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Centrală”
  • Russian: “Центральная провинция”
  • Sinhala: “මද්‍යම පළාත”
  • Sinhala: “මධ්‍යම පළාත, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
  • Slovenian: “Osrednja provinca”
  • Spanish: “Provincia Central”
  • Swedish: “Central, Papua Nya Guinea”
  • Swedish: “Central”
  • Swiss German: “Central Province”
  • Tamil: “சென்ட்ரல் மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “సెంట్రల్ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “సెంట్రల్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “เซ็นทรัล โพวิ้น”
  • Tok Pisin: “Central”
  • Tok Pisin: “Sentral Provins”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Central Province”
  • Turkish: “Central Province”
  • Ukrainian: “Центральна провінція”
  • Urdu: “مرکزی صوبہ”
  • 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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