Central Papua Province
Central Papua is an Indonesian province located in the central region of Western New Guinea. It was formally established on 25 July 2022 from the former eight western regencies of the province of Papua.
- Type: province of Indonesia with 1,410,000 residents
- Description: province of Indonesia
- Also known as: “Central Papua”, “papteng”, “Prov. Papua Tengah”, and “Westpapuaprovinz”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Nabire Airport.
Central Papua Province
- Location: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-3.3637° or 3° 21′ 49″ south
Longitude
135.5123° or 135° 30′ 44″ east
Population
1,410,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
6Q8QJGP6+GW
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Central Papua Province” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማዕከላዊ ፓፑዋ”
- Arabic: “بابوا الوسطى”
- Azerbaijani: “Mərkəzi Papua”
- Balinese: “Papua Tengah”
- Batak Toba: “Papua Tonga”
- Bengali: “কেন্দ্রীয় পাপুয়া”
- Betawi: “Papua Tenga”
- Chinese: “中巴布亚省”
- Chinese: “中巴布亞省”
- Czech: “Střední Papua”
- Esperanto: “Centra Papuio”
- Finnish: “Keski-Papua”
- French: “Papouasie centrale”
- Georgian: “ცენტრალური პაპუა”
- German: “Papua Tengah”
- German: “Zentralpapua”
- Gorontalo: “Papua Tengah”
- Hausa: “Central Papua”
- Hebrew: “מרכז פפואה”
- Indonesian: “Papua Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Papua Tengah”
- Irish: “Papua Láir”
- Italian: “Papua centrale”
- Italian: “Papua Centrale”
- Japanese: “中部パプア州”
- Javanese: “Central Papua”
- Javanese: “Papua Tengah”
- Javanese: “Papuah Tengah”
- Kazakh: “Central Papua”
- Kirghiz: “Central Papua”
- Komering: “Papua Tengah”
- Komering: “Papua Tongah”
- Korean: “중앙파푸아주”
- Latvian: “Centrālā Papua”
- Lithuanian: “Centrinė Papua”
- Madurese: “Papua Tengnga”
- Malay: “Papua Tengah”
- Malay: “ڤاڤوا تڠه”
- Mazanderani: “میونی پاپوآ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong Papua Séng”
- Minangkabau: “Papua Tengah”
- Northern Frisian: “Papua Tengah”
- Oromo: “Central Papua”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਂਦਰੀ ਪਾਪੁਆ”
- Persian: “پاپوا مرکزی”
- Persian: “پاپوای مرکزی”
- Polish: “Papua Środkowa”
- Portuguese: “Papua Central”
- Portuguese: “Papuásia Central”
- Pushto: “مرکزي پاپوا”
- Russian: “Центральное Папуа (провинция Индонезии)”
- Russian: “Центральное Папуа”
- Sinhala: “මධ්යම පැපුවා පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Slovenian: “Centralna Papua”
- Somali: “Central Papua”
- Spanish: “Papúa Central”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Papúa Central”
- Swahili: “Papua Kati”
- Tajik: “Папуаи Марказӣ”
- Tamil: “மத்திய பப்புவா”
- Tatar: “Central Papua”
- Tatar: “Үзәк Папуа”
- Thai: “จังหวัดปาปัวกลาง”
- Turkish: “Orta Papua”
- Ukrainian: “Центральне Папуа”
- Urdu: “وسطی پاپوا”
- Uzbek: “Central Papua”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Papua”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبا گبھلا پاپوا”
- “ma Papuwa insa”
- “Papua Tengah”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Nabire and Kimi.
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Highlights: Tanjung Bumi and Tanjung Boraitei.
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