Daru

Daru is the capital of the of and a former Catholic bishopric. Daru town falls under the jurisdiction of Daru Urban LLG.
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  • Type: City with 75,800 residents
  • Description: capital city of Western Province, Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as: “Daru Government Station”
  • Historically known as: “Dagwa”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Daru Island and Daru Airport.

Island
is an in the Western Province of .

Aerodrome
is an serving Daru, the capital of the in .

Daru

Latitude
-9.0699° or 9° 4′ 12″ south
Longitude
143.21° or 143° 12′ 36″ east
Population
75,800
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
DAU
UN/LOCODE
PG DAU
Open location code
6R25W6J6+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1645033734
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2098329
Wiki­data ID
Q499375
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Uzbek—“Daru” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ዳሩ”
  • Arabic: “دارو”
  • Arabic: “ريف دارو”
  • Asturian: “Daru”
  • Azerbaijani: “Daru”
  • Belarusian: “Дару (Папуа — Новая Гвінея)”
  • Belarusian: “Дару”
  • Bengali: “দারু”
  • Catalan: “Daru”
  • Cebuano: “Daru (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Daru”
  • Chinese: “達魯”
  • Dutch: “Daru”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ريف دارو”
  • Fijian: “Daru”
  • Finnish: “Daru”
  • French: “Daru”
  • Galician: “Daru”
  • German: “Daru”
  • Hausa: “Daru”
  • Hindi: “दारु”
  • Indonesian: “Daru”
  • Italian: “Daru”
  • Japanese: “ダル”
  • Javanese: “Daru”
  • Kazakh: “Дару”
  • Kirghiz: “Дару”
  • Korean: “다루”
  • Lithuanian: “Daru”
  • Malay: “Daru”
  • Mingrelian: “დარუ (პაპუა-ახალი გვინეა)”
  • Mingrelian: “დარუ”
  • Oromo: “Daru”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਾਰੂ”
  • Persian: “دارو (شهر)”
  • Persian: “دارو”
  • Polish: “Daru”
  • Portuguese: “Daru”
  • Pushto: “دارو”
  • Romanian: “Daru (Papua Noua Guinee)”
  • Romanian: “Daru”
  • Russian: “Дару”
  • Slovenian: “Daru”
  • Somali: “Daru”
  • Spanish: “Daru”
  • Swahili: “Daru”
  • Swedish: “Daru”
  • Tajik: “Дару”
  • Tatar: “Дару”
  • Tok Pisin: “Daru”
  • Turkish: “Daru”
  • Ukrainian: “Дару”
  • Urdu: “دارو”
  • Uzbek: “Daru”

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