Goroka
Goroka is a city in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Famous for the yearly Goroka Show, it is also one of the closest major towns to Mt. Wilhelm, the highest summit in the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 75,900 residents
- Description: Capital city of Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Garoka” and “New Garoka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Goroka Airport and Raun Raun Theatre.
Goroka Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: JialiangGao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Goroka Airport is an airport in Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
Raun Raun Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Brian ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Raun Raun Theatre is a movie theater in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.
Goroka
- Category: locality
- Location: Eastern Highlands Province, Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-6.073° or 6° 4′ 23″ southLongitude
145.3933° or 145° 23′ 36″ eastPopulation
75,900Elevation
1,574 metres (5,164 feet)IATA airport code
GKAUnited Nations Location Code
PG GKAOpen location code
6R57W9GV+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 3235158927OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2096742Wikidata ID
Q498192
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Goroka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جوروكا”
- Asturian: “Goroka”
- Bengali: “গোরোকা”
- Bulgarian: “Горока”
- Catalan: “Goroka”
- Cebuano: “Goroka”
- Chinese: “戈罗卡”
- Chinese: “戈羅卡”
- Dutch: “Goroka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جوروكا”
- Finnish: “Goroka”
- French: “Goroka”
- Galician: “Goroka”
- German: “Goroka”
- Hebrew: “גורוקה”
- Italian: “Goroka Urban”
- Italian: “Goroka”
- Japanese: “ゴロカ”
- Korean: “고로카”
- Lithuanian: “Goroka”
- Mingrelian: “გოროკა”
- Persian: “گوروکا”
- Polish: “Goroka”
- Portuguese: “Goroka”
- Russian: “Горока”
- Slovenian: “Goroka”
- Spanish: “Goroka”
- Tok Pisin: “Goroka”
- Turkish: “Goroka”
- Ukrainian: “Горока”
- Urdu: “گوروکا”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Goroka”. Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.