Goroka

Goroka is a city in the Eastern of . Famous for the yearly Goroka Show, it is also one of the closest major towns to Mt. Wilhelm, the highest summit in the country.
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  • City with 75,900 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,574 metres (5,164 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code GKA
  • Description: Capital city of Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
  • Also known as
    “Garoka”
    “New Garoka”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Goroka Airport and Raun Raun Theatre.

Aerodrome
Photo: JialiangGao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an airport in Goroka, .

Theater building
Photo: Brian ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a in Goroka, , .

Goroka

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Latitude
-6.073° or 6° 4′ 23″ south
Longitude
145.3933° or 145° 23′ 36″ east
UN/LOCODE
PG GKA
Open location code
6R57W9GV+Q8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3235158927
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2096742
Wiki­data ID
Q498192

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Goroka” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ጎሮካ”
  • Arabic: “جوروكا”
  • Asturian: “Goroka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Goroka”
  • Belarusian: “Гарока”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Goroka”
  • Hebrew: “גורוקה”
  • Hindi: “गोरोका”
  • Indonesian: “Goroka”
  • Italian: “Goroka Urban”
  • Italian: “Goroka”
  • Japanese: “ゴロカ”
  • Javanese: “Goroka”
  • Kazakh: “Горока”
  • Kirghiz: “Горока”
  • Korean: “고로카”
  • Lithuanian: “Goroka”
  • Malay: “Goroka”
  • Mingrelian: “გოროკა”
  • Oromo: “Goroka”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੋਰੋਕਾ”
  • Persian: “گوروکا”
  • Polish: “Goroka”
  • Portuguese: “Goroka”
  • Pushto: “گوروکا”
  • Russian: “Горока”
  • Slovenian: “Goroka”
  • Somali: “Goroka”
  • Spanish: “Goroka”
  • Swahili: “Goroka”
  • Tajik: “Горока”
  • Tatar: “Горока”
  • Tok Pisin: “Goroka”
  • Turkish: “Goroka”
  • Ukrainian: “Горока”
  • Urdu: “گوروکا”
  • Uzbek: “Goroka”
  • Yue Chinese: “戈羅卡”

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