Mendi
Mendi is the capital of the Southern Highlands province in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea. Mendi is also little town in Ethiopia, Oromia regional state in Western Wollegga district.- Type: City with 26,300 residents
- Description: capital city of Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Mendi Urban” and “門迪 (巴布亞紐幾內亞)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mendi Airport.
Mendi
- Category: locality
- Location: Southern Highlands Province, Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-6.1394° or 6° 8′ 22″ south
Longitude
143.6579° or 143° 39′ 28″ east
Population
26,300
Elevation
1,729 metres (5,673 feet)
IATA airport code
MDU
UN/LOCODE
PG MDU
Open location code
6R55VM65+74
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Mendi” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሜንዲ”
- Arabic: “ميندي”
- Asturian: “Mendi”
- Azerbaijani: “Mendi”
- Belarusian: “Мендзі (Папуа — Новая Гвінея)”
- Belarusian: “Мендзі”
- Bengali: “মেন্ডি”
- Cebuano: “Mendi”
- Chinese: “門迪”
- Chinese: “门迪”
- Dutch: “Mendi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميندى”
- French: “Mendi”
- Galician: “Mendi”
- German: “Mendi”
- Hausa: “Mendi”
- Hindi: “मेंडी”
- Indonesian: “Mendi”
- Italian: “Mendi”
- Japanese: “メンディ”
- Javanese: “Mendi”
- Kazakh: “Менди”
- Kirghiz: “Менди”
- Korean: “멘디”
- Lithuanian: “Mendis”
- Malay: “Mendi”
- Mingrelian: “მენდი (პაპუა-ახალი გვინეა)”
- Mingrelian: “მენდი”
- Oromo: “Mendi”
- Panjabi: “ਮੇਂਡੀ”
- Persian: “مندی”
- Polish: “Mendi”
- Portuguese: “Mendi”
- Pushto: “مندي”
- Russian: “Менди”
- Slovenian: “Mendi”
- Somali: “Mendi”
- Spanish: “Mendi”
- Swahili: “Mendi”
- Tajik: “Менди”
- Tok Pisin: “Mendi”
- Turkish: “Mendi”
- Ukrainian: “Менді (Папуа Нова Гвінея)”
- Ukrainian: “Менді”
- Urdu: “میندی”
- Urdu: “مینڈی”
- Uzbek: “Mendi”
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