Merauke
Merauke is a city in Papua and is the capital city of South Papua. Merauke has become a gateway to Wasur National Park.
- Type: City with 190,000 residents
- Description: district in Merauke Regency, South Papua Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Distrik Merauke”, “Kecamatan Merauke”, “Marokaehe”, “Maroke”, and “Merauke District”
Merauke
- Categories: distrik, capital of regency, and locality
- Location: Merauke Regency, South Papua Province, Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-8.4903° or 8° 29′ 25″ south
Longitude
140.3956° or 140° 23′ 44″ east
Population
190,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
MKQ
UN/LOCODE
ID MKQ
Open location code
6R32G95W+V6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Merauke” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Merauke”
- Afrikaans: “Merauke”
- Arabic: “مراوكي”
- Arabic: “ميروكي”
- Aragonese: “Merauke”
- Arpitan: “Merauke”
- Asturian: “Merauke”
- Basque: “Merauke”
- Bavarian: “Merauke”
- Bengali: “মেরাউকা”
- Betawi: “Meroké, Meroké”
- Breton: “Merauke”
- Catalan: “Merauke”
- Chinese: “馬老奇”
- Chinese: “马老奇”
- Corsican: “Merauke”
- Croatian: “Merauke”
- Czech: “Merauke”
- Danish: “Merauke”
- Dutch: “Merauke”
- Esperanto: “Merauke”
- Estonian: “Merauke”
- Finnish: “Merauke”
- French: “Merauke”
- Friulian: “Merauke”
- Galician: “Merauke”
- German: “Merauke”
- Greek: “Μερόκε”
- Gujarati: “મેરૌકે”
- Hebrew: “מרוק”
- Hindi: “मेरौके”
- Hungarian: “Merauke”
- Icelandic: “Merauke”
- Ido: “Merauke”
- Indonesian: “Merauke, Merauke”
- Indonesian: “Merauke”
- Interlingua: “Merauke”
- Interlingue: “Merauke”
- Irish: “Merauke”
- Italian: “Merauke”
- Japanese: “ムラウク”
- Japanese: “メラウケ”
- Javanese: “Merauke, Merauke”
- Javanese: “Merauke”
- Jèrriais: “Merauke”
- Kannada: “ಮೆರೌಕ್”
- Kongo: “Merauke”
- Korean: “메라우케”
- Latvian: “Merauke”
- Ligurian: “Merauke”
- Limburgan: “Merauke”
- Lithuanian: “Meraukė”
- Low German: “Merauke”
- Luxembourgish: “Merauke”
- Malagasy: “Merauke”
- Malay: “Merauke, Merauke”
- Malay: “Merauke”
- Marathi: “मेरौके”
- Minangkabau: “Merauke”
- Neapolitan: “Merauke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Merauke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Merauke”
- Norwegian: “Merauke”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Merauke”
- Picard: “Merauke”
- Piemontese: “Merauke”
- Polish: “Merauke”
- Portuguese: “Merauke”
- Romanian: “Merauke”
- Romansh: “Merauke”
- Russian: “Мерауке”
- Russian: “Мераукэ”
- Sardinian: “Merauke”
- Scots: “Merauke”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Merauke”
- Serbian: “Merauke”
- Sicilian: “Merauke”
- Sinhala: “මෙරෞකේ”
- Slovak: “Merauke”
- Slovenian: “Merauke”
- Spanish: “Merauke”
- Sundanese: “Merauke”
- Swahili: “Merauke”
- Swedish: “Merauke”
- Swiss German: “Merauke”
- Tamil: “மேராவுக்கே”
- Telugu: “మెరౌకె”
- Thai: “เมอเราเก”
- Turkish: “Merauke”
- Ukrainian: “Мерауке”
- Urdu: “میراوکے”
- Venetian: “Merauke”
- Vietnamese: “Merauke”
- Vlaams: “Merauke”
- Volapük: “Merauke”
- Walloon: “Merauke”
- Waray (Philippines): “Merauke”
- Welsh: “Merauke”
- Western Panjabi: “میروکے”
- Wolof: “Merauke”
- Zulu: “Merauke”
- “Merauke”
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