Kainantu
Kainantu is a town of 6,723 in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea, perched at an altitude of around 2,300 m.
Kainantu
- Type: Town with 15,500 residents
- Description: place in Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Eastern Highlands Province, Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-6.2908° or 6° 17′ 27″ south
Longitude
145.8679° or 145° 52′ 4″ east
Population
15,500
Elevation
1,575 metres (5,167 feet)
Open location code
6R57PV59+M5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Urdu—“Kainantu” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Каінанту”
- Cebuano: “Kainantu”
- Chinese: “凱南圖”
- Dutch: “Kainantu”
- French: “Kainantu”
- Japanese: “カイナントゥ”
- Korean: “카이난투”
- Persian: “کائینانتو”
- Polish: “Kainantu”
- Russian: “Каинанту”
- Ukrainian: “Каінанту”
- Urdu: “کائینانٹو”
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