Jiwaka Province
Jiwaka is a province of Papua New Guinea. The government gazetted provincial capital is located in Kurumul. Temporarily all provincial matters are handled in Minj after the election of the new Governor in 2022 general elections.- Type: State with 344,000 residents
- Description: province of Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Provinca Jiwaka”, “جیواکا”, and “ジワ州”
Jiwaka Province
- Categories: province of Papua New Guinea and locality
- Location: Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-5.5798° or 5° 34′ 47″ south
Longitude
144.6138° or 144° 36′ 50″ east
Population
344,000
Elevation
1,602 metres (5,256 feet)
Open location code
6R66CJC7+3G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“Jiwaka Province” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጂዋካ ክልል”
- Azerbaijani: “Jiwaka Provinsiyası”
- Basque: “Jiwaka (probintzia)”
- Basque: “Jiwaka”
- Bengali: “জিওয়াকা প্রদেশ”
- Bosnian: “Jiwaka”
- Cebuano: “Jiwaka”
- Chinese: “吉瓦卡省”
- Dutch: “Jiwaka Province”
- Dutch: “Jiwaka”
- Estonian: “Jiwaka provints”
- Finnish: “Jiwaka”
- French: “Jiwaka Province”
- French: “Jiwaka”
- Georgian: “ჯივაკა”
- German: “Jiwaka Province”
- Hausa: “Jiwaka Province”
- Italian: “provincia di Jiwaka”
- Italian: “Provincia di Jiwaka”
- Japanese: “ジワカ州”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Jiwaka”
- Kazakh: “Дживака провинциясы”
- Kirghiz: “Живака провинциясы”
- Korean: “지와카주”
- Latvian: “Dživakas province”
- Latvian: “Jivakas province”
- Lithuanian: “Dživakos provincija”
- Malay: “Wilayah Jiwaka”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jiwaka Séng”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Jiwaka”
- Panjabi: “ਜੀਵਾਕਾ ਸੂਬਾ”
- Persian: “استان جیواکا”
- Polish: “Jiwaka”
- Portuguese: “Jiwaka”
- Pushto: “جیواکا ولایت”
- Romanian: “Provincia Jiwaka”
- Russian: “Дживака”
- Sinhala: “ජිවාකා පළාත, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
- Slovenian: “Jiwaka Province”
- Somali: “Gobolka Jiwaka”
- Spanish: “Jiwaka”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Jiwaka”
- Swahili: “Kanda cha Jiwaka”
- Swiss German: “Jiwaka Province”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Живака”
- Tatar: “Живака провинциясы”
- Ukrainian: “Дживака”
- Urdu: “جیواکا صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Jivaka provinsiyasi”
- Uzbek: “Jiwaka provinsiyasi”
- Welsh: “Talaith Jiwaka”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Dapaka and Baiya.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Tabibuga Nazarene Church and Tabibuga Lutheran Church.
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