Kavieng
Kavieng is the capital of the Papua New Guinean province of New Ireland and the largest town on the island of the same name. The town is located at Balgai Bay, on the northern tip of the island.- Type: City with 18,000 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Kavieng Urban”, “Kawieng”, and “カヴィエン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kavieng Airport.
Kavieng
- Category: locality
- Location: Kavieng District, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-2.5735° or 2° 34′ 25″ south
Longitude
150.7952° or 150° 47′ 43″ east
Population
18,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
KVG
UN/LOCODE
PG KVG
Open location code
6R9GCQGW+J3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Kavieng” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካቪየንግ”
- Arabic: “كافينج”
- Arabic: “كافينغ”
- Asturian: “Kavieng”
- Azerbaijani: “Kavieng”
- Belarusian: “Кавіенг”
- Bengali: “কাভিয়েং”
- Catalan: “Kavieng”
- Cebuano: “Kavieng”
- Chinese: “卡維恩”
- Chinese: “卡维恩”
- Danish: “Kavieng”
- Dutch: “Kavieng”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كافينج”
- Finnish: “Kavieng”
- French: “Kavieng”
- Galician: “Kavieng”
- German: “Kaewieng”
- German: “Kavieng”
- German: “Käwieng”
- Hausa: “Kavieng”
- Hebrew: “קאוויאנג”
- Hindi: “कविएंग”
- Indonesian: “Kavieng”
- Irish: “Kavieng”
- Italian: “Kavieng”
- Japanese: “カビエン”
- Javanese: “Kavieng”
- Kazakh: “Кавиенг”
- Kirghiz: “Кавиенг”
- Korean: “카비엥”
- Korean: “캐비엥”
- Lithuanian: “Kaviengas”
- Malay: “Kavieng”
- Mingrelian: “კავიენგი”
- Oromo: “Kavieng”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਵਿਏਂਗ”
- Persian: “کاوینگ”
- Polish: “Kavieng”
- Portuguese: “Kavieng”
- Pushto: “کاویانګ”
- Russian: “Кавиенг”
- Slovenian: “Kavieng”
- Somali: “Kavieng”
- Spanish: “Kavieng”
- Swahili: “Kavieng”
- Swedish: “Kavieng”
- Tajik: “Кавиенг”
- Tatar: “Кавиенг”
- Tok Pisin: “Kavieng”
- Turkish: “Kavieng”
- Ukrainian: “Кавіенг”
- Urdu: “کاوینگ”
- Uzbek: “Kavieng”
- Yue Chinese: “卡維恩”
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