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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 75,600 residents
- Description: human settlement in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Friedrich Wilhelms Harbour”
Places of Interest
Highlights include 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″ southLongitude
145.8054° or 145° 48′ 20″ eastPopulation
75,600Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)IATA airport code
MAGUnited Nations Location Code
PG MAGOpen location code
6R67QRQ4+55OpenStreetMap ID
node 859665479OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2091996Wikidata ID
Q586673
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Madang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مادانغ”
- Belarusian: “Маданг”
- Cebuano: “Madang (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Madang”
- Chinese: “马当”
- Czech: “Madang”
- Dutch: “Madang”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مادانج”
- Finnish: “Madang”
- French: “Madang”
- Galician: “Madang”
- German: “Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hafen”
- German: “Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen”
- German: “Madang”
- Hebrew: “מדנג”
- Indonesian: “Madang”
- Italian: “Madang”
- Japanese: “マダン”
- Korean: “마당”
- Lithuanian: “Madangas”
- Mingrelian: “მადანგი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madang”
- Persian: “شهر مادانگ”
- Persian: “مادانگ”
- Polish: “Madang”
- Portuguese: “Madang”
- Russian: “Маданг”
- Spanish: “Madang”
- Swedish: “Madang”
- Tok Pisin: “Madang”
- Turkish: “Madang”
- Ukrainian: “Маданг”
- Urdu: “مادنگ”
- “Madang”
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