Nueva Guinea
Nueva Guinea is a town and a municipality in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. Nueva Guinea was founded in the 1960s and saw significant growth in the early 1970s as the US Peace Corps helped to move families from the Pacific region of Nicaragua to Nueva Guinea in exchange for free land and agricultural help.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 25,600 residents
- Description: municipality in South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Colonia Nueva Guinea”, “Municipality of Nueva Guinea”, and “Nueva Guinea Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nueva Guinea Airport.
Nueva Guinea Airport
Aerodrome
Nueva Guinea Airport was an airfield located in Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua. According to the Mayor's office of Nueva Guinea, the strip of land that used for landing was decommissioned as an airstrip more than 20 years ago due to the centrality within the city.
Nueva Guinea
- Categories: municipality of Nicaragua and locality
- Location: South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
11.6871° or 11° 41′ 14″ northLongitude
-84.4564° or 84° 27′ 23″ westPopulation
25,600Elevation
212 metres (696 feet)IATA airport code
NVGUnited Nations Location Code
NI NUGOpen location code
763QMGPV+VFOpenStreetMap ID
node 306573975OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3617459Wikidata ID
Q2554341
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Nueva Guinea” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Nueva Guinea”
- Basque: “Nueva Guinea (udalerria)”
- Basque: “Nueva Guinea”
- Basque: “Nueva Guineako udalerria”
- Cebuano: “Municipio de Nueva Guinea”
- Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Nueva Guinea”
- Cebuano: “Nueva Guinea nga Munisipyo”
- Cebuano: “Nueva Guinea”
- Chinese: “Nueva Guinea”
- Chinese: “新幾內亞（市镇）”
- Chinese: “新幾內亞”
- Chinese: “新幾內亞市镇”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Nueva Guinea”
- Dutch: “Nueva Guinea (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Nueva Guinea”
- French: “Municipalité de Nueva Guinea”
- French: “Nueva Guinea (municipalité)”
- French: “Nueva Guinea”
- German: “Gemeinde Nueva Guinea”
- German: “Gemeinde von Nueva Guinea”
- German: “Nueva Guinea (Gemeinde)”
- German: “Nueva Guinea”
- Greek: “Δήμος Νουέβα Γκίνεα”
- Greek: “Νέα Γουινέα”
- Greek: “Νουέβα Γκίνεα (δήμος)”
- Greek: “Νουέβα Γκίνεα”
- Italian: “Comune di Nueva Guinea”
- Italian: “Nueva Guinea (comune)”
- Italian: “Nueva Guinea”
- Japanese: “ヌエバ・グイネア（自治体）”
- Japanese: “ヌエバ・グイネア”
- Japanese: “ヌエバ・グイネア自治体”
- Japanese: “ヌエバグイネア”
- Lithuanian: “Nueva Ginėja”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Nueva Guinea”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nueva Guinea chhiūⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nueva Guinea”
- Moksha: “Нуэва Гвинэя”
- Polish: “Gmina Nueva Guinea”
- Polish: “Nueva Guinea (gmina)”
- Polish: “Nueva Guinea”
- Portuguese: “Município de Nueva Guinea”
- Portuguese: “Nueva Guinea (município)”
- Portuguese: “Nueva Guinea”
- Russian: “Муниципалитет Нуэва-Гинея”
- Russian: “Нуэва-Гинея (муниципалитет)”
- Russian: “Нуэва-Гинея”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Nueva Guinea”
- Spanish: “Nueva Guinea (Municipio)”
- Spanish: “Nueva Guinea”
- Swedish: “Nueva Guinea (kommun)”
- Swedish: “Nueva Guinea kommun”
- Swedish: “Nueva Guinea”
- Ukrainian: “Нуева Ґвінея”
- Urdu: “نویبا گینیا”
- Vietnamese: “Đô thị Nueva Guinea”
- Vietnamese: “Nueva Guinea (đô thị)”
- Vietnamese: “Nueva Guinea”
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