Kimbe
Kimbe is the capital of the province of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea, and the largest settlement on the island. The bustling town of Kimbe is the third largest port in Papua New Guinea and is the fastest growing city in the South Pacific.
- Type: City with 40,400 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Kimbe Urban” and “キンビ”
Kimbe
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: West New Britain Province, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-5.5563° or 5° 33′ 23″ south
Longitude
150.153° or 150° 9′ 11″ east
Population
40,400
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PG KIM
Open location code
6R6GC5V3+F5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Kimbe” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኪምቤ”
- Arabic: “كيمبي”
- Armenian: “Կիմբե”
- Azerbaijani: “Kimbe”
- Belarusian: “Кімбэ”
- Bengali: “কিম্বে”
- Breton: “Kimbe”
- Breton: “Kokopo”
- Catalan: “Kimbe”
- Cebuano: “Kimbe (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Kimbe”
- Chinese: “金貝”
- Chinese: “金贝”
- Dutch: “Kimbe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيمبى”
- Finnish: “Kimbe”
- French: “Kimbe”
- Galician: “Kimbe”
- German: “Kimbe”
- Hausa: “Kimbe”
- Hindi: “किम्बे”
- Indonesian: “Kimbe”
- Italian: “Kimbe”
- Japanese: “キンベ”
- Javanese: “Kimbe”
- Kazakh: “Кимбе”
- Kirghiz: “Кимбе”
- Korean: “킴베”
- Lithuanian: “Kimbė”
- Malay: “Kimbe”
- Mingrelian: “კიმბე”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kimbe”
- Oromo: “Kimbe”
- Panjabi: “ਕਿਮਬੇ”
- Persian: “کیمبه”
- Polish: “Kimbe”
- Portuguese: “Kimbe”
- Pushto: “کمبې”
- Russian: “Кимбе”
- Slovenian: “Kimbe”
- Somali: “Kimbe”
- Spanish: “Kimbe”
- Swahili: “Kimbe”
- Swedish: “Kimbe”
- Tajik: “Кимбе”
- Tatar: “Кимбе”
- Tok Pisin: “Kimbe”
- Turkish: “Kimbe”
- Ukrainian: “Кімбе”
- Urdu: “کمبے”
- Uzbek: “Kimbe”
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