Lae
Lae is a city in the Huon Gulf region of Papua New Guinea. Lae is PNG's second city, after the capital Port Moresby and its main economic hub as most of the production from the country's Highlands area is exported through the city, transported along the Highlands Highway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 251,000 residents
- Description: city in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “lae, PNG” and “Preußen-Reede”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Butibum and Dowsett.
Butibum
Suburb
Photo: Phenss, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Butibam is a village on the outskirts of Lae, Morobe Province in Papua New Guinea.
Eriku
Suburb
Photo: Phenss, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eriku is a suburb of Lae in the Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
Lae
- Category: locality
- Location: Morobe Province, Madang-Morobe, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-6.7302° or 6° 43′ 49″ southLongitude
147.0008° or 147° 0′ 3″ eastPopulation
251,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)IATA airport code
LAEUnited Nations Location Code
PG LAEOpen location code
6R597292+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 103913308OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2092740Wikidata ID
Q612250
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Lae” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lae”
- Arabic: “لاي”
- Asturian: “Lae”
- Azerbaijani: “Lae (Papua Yeni Qvineya)”
- Azerbaijani: “Lae”
- Basque: “Lae”
- Bengali: “লাই”
- Catalan: “Lae”
- Cebuano: “Lae (kapital sa lalawigan sa Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, lat -6,72, long 146,98)”
- Cebuano: “Lae”
- Chinese: “Lae”
- Chinese: “莱城/萊城”
- Chinese: “莱城”
- Chinese: “萊城”
- Czech: “Lae”
- Danish: “Lae”
- Dutch: “Lae”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لاى”
- Esperanto: “Lae”
- Estonian: “Lae”
- Fiji Hindi: “Lae”
- Finnish: “Lae”
- French: “Lae”
- Galician: “Lae”
- German: “Lae”
- German: “Lehe”
- Greek: “Λάε”
- Gujarati: “લાઈ”
- Hebrew: “לאה”
- Hebrew: “לָאֵה”
- Hindi: “ले”
- Indonesian: “Lae”
- Irish: “Lae”
- Italian: “Lae”
- Japanese: “ラエ”
- Kannada: “ಲೇ”
- Kirghiz: “Лаэ шаары”
- Korean: “라에”
- Latvian: “Lae”
- Lithuanian: “Laė”
- Macedonian: “Лае”
- Malay: “Lae”
- Maori: “Rae”
- Marathi: “लाई”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lae”
- Mingrelian: “ლაე”
- Northern Frisian: “Lae”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lae”
- Norwegian: “Lae”
- Persian: “لائه”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Lae”
- Polish: “Lae”
- Portuguese: “Lae”
- Russian: “Лаэ”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lae”
- Sinhala: “ලේචේ”
- Slovak: “Lae”
- Slovenian: “Lae”
- Spanish: “Lae”
- Spanish: “Laé”
- Spanish: “Lahe”
- Swedish: “Lae, Papua Nya Guinea”
- Swedish: “Lae”
- Tamil: “லே”
- Telugu: “లె”
- Thai: “เลย์”
- Tok Pisin: “Lae”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lae”
- Turkish: “Lae”
- Ukrainian: “Лае”
- Urdu: “لائے”
- Vietnamese: “Lae”
- Welsh: “Lae”
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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 “Lae”. Photo: Phenss, CC BY-SA 3.0.