Lae

Lae is a city in the Huon Gulf region of . Lae is PNG's second city, after the capital 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.
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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.

Suburb
Butibam is a village on the outskirts of Lae, in .

Suburb
is a suburb of Lae in the , .

Suburb
is a suburb of Lae in the , .

Lae

Latitude
-6.7302° or 6° 43′ 49″ south
Longitude
147.0008° or 147° 0′ 3″ east
Population
251,000
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
IATA airport code
LAE
United Nations Location Code
PG LAE
Open location code
6R597292+W8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 103913308
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2092740
Wiki­data 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.