Madang
Madang is a town in Madang Province on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. In 2013 it had a population of almost 30,000. The town is said to be one of the prettiest towns in the South Pacific.- Type: City with 75,600 residents
- Description: human settlement in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Friedrich Wilhelms Harbour”, “Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hafen”, and “Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Madang Airport.
Madang
- Categories: human settlement, administrative center, and locality
- Location: Madang Province, Madang-Morobe, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-5.212° or 5° 12′ 43″ south
Longitude
145.8054° or 145° 48′ 20″ east
Population
75,600
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
MAG
UN/LOCODE
PG MAG
Open location code
6R67QRQ4+55
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Madang” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማዳንግ”
- Arabic: “مادانج”
- Arabic: “مادانغ”
- Asturian: “Madang”
- Azerbaijani: “Madang”
- Belarusian: “Маданг”
- Bengali: “মাদাং”
- Cebuano: “Madang (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Madang”
- Chinese: “马当”
- Czech: “Madang”
- Dutch: “Madang”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مادانج”
- Finnish: “Madang”
- French: “Madang”
- Galician: “Madang”
- German: “Madang”
- Hausa: “Madang”
- Hebrew: “מדנג”
- Hindi: “मादांग”
- Indonesian: “Madang”
- Italian: “Madang”
- Japanese: “マダン”
- Javanese: “Madang”
- Kazakh: “Маданг”
- Kirghiz: “Маданг”
- Korean: “마당”
- Lithuanian: “Madangas”
- Malay: “Madang”
- Mingrelian: “მადანგი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madang”
- Oromo: “Madang”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਦਾਂਗ”
- Persian: “شهر مادانگ”
- Persian: “مادانگ”
- Polish: “Madang”
- Portuguese: “Madang”
- Pushto: “مادانگ”
- Russian: “Маданг”
- Somali: “Madang”
- Spanish: “Madang”
- Swahili: “Madang”
- Swedish: “Madang”
- Tajik: “Маданг”
- Tatar: “Маданг”
- Tok Pisin: “Madang”
- Turkish: “Madang”
- Ukrainian: “Маданг”
- Urdu: “مادانگ”
- Urdu: “مادنگ”
- Uzbek: “Madang”
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