New Britain
New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea and from New Ireland by St.
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New Britain
- Type: Island with 514,000 residents
- Description: island of the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Birara”, “Breizh-Nevez”, “Đảo New Britain”, “Jaunā Britānija”, “Neu Pommern”, “Neu-Britannien”, “Neu-Pommern”, “Neupommern”, “New Britain (Papua New Guinea)”, “New Britain Island”, “New Britainön”, “New Pomerania”, “Nieuw-Brittanie”, “Nieuw-Brittanië”, “Nieuw-Brittannie”, “Nouvelle Bretagne”, “Nova Britània”, “Nova Pomorjanska”, “Novbritio”, “Novo Pomorjansko”, “Nu Briten”, “Nueva Bretana”, “Nueva Pomerania”, “Nuova Bretagna”, “Ny Britannien”, “Nya Britannien”, “Nya Pommern”, “Uus-Britannia saar”, “Yeni Britanya Adası”, “Востраў Новая Брытанія”, “Нова Померанија”, “Ново Поморје”, “뉴브리튼”, and “新不列顛島”
- Location: West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-5.7431° or 5° 44′ 35″ south
Longitude of center
150.7716° or 150° 46′ 18″ east
Population
514,000
Elevation
649 metres (2,129 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“New Britain” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nieu-Brittanje”
- Arabic: “بريطانيا الجديدة”
- Arabic: “جزيرة نيو بريتين”
- Armenian: “Նոր Բրիտանիա”
- Asturian: “Nueva Bretaña”
- Azerbaijani: “Yeni Britaniya”
- Bashkir: “Яңы Британия”
- Basque: “Bretainia Berria”
- Basque: “Britainia Berria”
- Belarusian: “Новая Брытанія”
- Bosnian: “Nova Britanija”
- Breton: “Preden-Nevez”
- Bulgarian: “Нова Британия”
- Catalan: “Nova Bretanya”
- Cebuano: “New Britain”
- Chinese: “新不列顛”
- Croatian: “New Britain”
- Czech: “Nová Británie”
- Danish: “New Britain”
- Dimli (individual language): “Britanya Newiye”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Brittannië”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره نيو بريتين”
- Esperanto: “Nova Britio”
- Estonian: “Uus-Britannia”
- Fiji Hindi: “New Britain”
- Finnish: “Uusi-Britannia”
- French: “Nouvelle-Bretagne”
- Galician: “Nova Bretaña”
- Georgian: “ახალი ბრიტანეთი”
- German: “Neubritannien”
- Greek: “Νέα Βρετανία”
- Hebrew: “בריטניה החדשה”
- Hindi: “न्यू ब्रिटेन”
- Hungarian: “Új-Britannia”
- Icelandic: “Nýja-Bretland”
- Indonesian: “New Britain”
- Irish: “An Nua-Bhreatain”
- Italian: “Nuova Britannia”
- Japanese: “ニューブリテン”
- Japanese: “ニューブリテン島”
- Kazakh: “Жаңа Британия”
- Korean: “뉴브리튼섬”
- Latin: “Nova Britannia”
- Latvian: “Jaunbritānija”
- Lithuanian: “Naujoji Britanija”
- Macedonian: “Нова Британија”
- Marathi: “न्यू ब्रिटन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New Britain”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “New Britain”
- Norwegian: “New Britain”
- Persian: “بریتانیای نو”
- Polish: “Nowa Brytania”
- Portuguese: “Nova Bretanha”
- Romanian: “Insula Noua Britanie”
- Romanian: “Noua Britanie”
- Russian: “Новая Британия”
- Scots: “New Breetain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Breatainn Nuadh”
- Serbian: “Нова Британија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nova Britanija”
- Slovak: “New Britain”
- Slovenian: “Nova Britanija”
- Spanish: “Nueva Bretaña”
- Swahili: “Niu Briten”
- Swedish: “Niu Briten”
- Swiss German: “Neibritannie”
- Swiss German: “Neubritannien”
- Tagalog: “Bagong Britanya”
- Tamil: “நியூ பிரிட்டன்”
- Thai: “นิวบริเตน”
- Tok Pisin: “Niu Briten”
- Turkish: “Yeni Britanya”
- Ukrainian: “Нова Британія”
- Vietnamese: “New Britain”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bag-o nga Britanya”
- Welsh: “Prydain Newydd”
- Western Frisian: “Nij-Brittanje”
- Western Mari: “У Британи”
- Western Panjabi: “نواں برطانیہ”
- Wu Chinese: “新不列颠”
- Wu Chinese: “新不列颠岛”
- Yue Chinese: “新不列顛”
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