Daru
Daru is the capital of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea and a former Catholic bishopric. Daru town falls under the jurisdiction of Daru Urban LLG.
- 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 include Daru Island and Daru Airport.
Daru Island
Island
Daru Island is an island in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the Torres Strait Islands. The eponymous town on the island is the capital of the province, and houses the vast majority of the island's population of 20,524.
Daru Airport
Aerodrome
Daru Airport is an airport serving Daru, the capital of the Western Province in Papua New Guinea. The airfield was constructed before or during World War II.
Daru
- Category: locality
- Location: Western Province, Western Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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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
United Nations Location Code
PG DAU
Open location code
6R25W6J6+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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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