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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Rabaul and Kimbe.
Rabaul
Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rabaul is the former provincial capital of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. It was evacuated and nearly destroyed in 1994 when the nearby volcano Tavurvur erupted.
Kimbe
Photo: Kimbe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kimbe is the capital of the province of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea, and the largest settlement on the island. The bustling town of Kimbe is the third largest port in Papua New Guinea and is the fastest growing city in the South Pacific.
New Britain
- Type: Island with 514,000 residents
- Description: island of the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Birara”, “Neu-Pommern”, and “New Britain (Papua New Guinea)”
- Location: West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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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: “Востраў Новая Брытанія”
- Belarusian: “Новая Брытанія”
- Bosnian: “Nova Britanija”
- Breton: “Breizh-Nevez”
- Breton: “Preden-Nevez”
- Bulgarian: “Нова Британия”
- Catalan: “New Britain”
- Catalan: “Nova Bretanya”
- Catalan: “Nova Britània”
- Cebuano: “New Britain”
- Chinese: “新不列顛”
- Chinese: “新不列顛島”
- Chinese: “新不列颠岛”
- Croatian: “New Britain”
- Czech: “Nová Británie”
- Danish: “New Britain”
- Danish: “Ny Britannien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Britanya Newiye”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Brittanie”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Brittanië”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Brittannie”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Brittannië”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره نيو بريتين”
- Esperanto: “Nova Britio”
- Esperanto: “Novbritio”
- Estonian: “Uus-Britannia saar”
- Estonian: “Uus-Britannia”
- Fiji Hindi: “New Britain”
- Finnish: “Uusi-Britannia”
- French: “New Britain”
- French: “Nouvelle Bretagne”
- French: “Nouvelle-Bretagne”
- Galician: “Nova Bretaña”
- Georgian: “ახალი ბრიტანეთი”
- German: “Neu-Britannien”
- German: “Neu-Pommern”
- German: “Neubritannien”
- German: “Neupommern”
- Greek: “Νέα Βρετανία”
- Hebrew: “בריטניה החדשה”
- Hindi: “न्यू ब्रिटेन”
- Hungarian: “Új-Britannia”
- Icelandic: “Nýja-Bretland”
- Indonesian: “New Britain”
- Irish: “An Nua-Bhreatain”
- Italian: “Nuova Bretagna”
- Italian: “Nuova Britannia”
- Japanese: “ニューブリテン”
- Japanese: “ニューブリテン島”
- Kazakh: “Жаңа Британия”
- Korean: “뉴브리튼”
- Korean: “뉴브리튼섬”
- Latin: “Nova Britannia”
- Latvian: “Jaunā Britānija”
- Latvian: “Jaunbritānija”
- Lithuanian: “Naujoji Britanija”
- Macedonian: “Нова Британија”
- Macedonian: “Нова Померанија”
- Macedonian: “Ново Поморје”
- Marathi: “न्यू ब्रिटन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Neu Pommern”
- 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: “New Britain”
- Romanian: “Noua Britanie”
- Russian: “Новая Британия”
- Scots: “New Breetain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Breatainn Nuadh”
- Serbian: “Neu Pommern”
- Serbian: “New Britain”
- Serbian: “New Pomerania”
- Serbian: “Нова Британија”
- Serbian: “Нова Померанија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nova Britanija”
- Slovak: “New Britain”
- Slovenian: “Nova Britanija”
- Slovenian: “Nova Pomorjanska”
- Slovenian: “Novo Pomorjansko”
- Spanish: “Nueva Bretana”
- Spanish: “Nueva Bretaña”
- Spanish: “Nueva Pomerania”
- Swahili: “Niu Briten”
- Swedish: “New Britain Island”
- Swedish: “New Britainön”
- Swedish: “Niu Briten”
- Swedish: “Nya Britannien”
- Swedish: “Nya Pommern”
- Swiss German: “Neibritannie”
- Tagalog: “Bagong Britanya”
- Tagalog: “New Britain”
- Tamil: “நியூ பிரிட்டன்”
- Thai: “นิวบริเตน”
- Tok Pisin: “New Britain”
- Tok Pisin: “Niu Briten”
- Tok Pisin: “Nu Briten”
- Tosk Albanian: “Neubritannien”
- Turkish: “New Britain”
- Turkish: “Yeni Britanya Adası”
- Turkish: “Yeni Britanya”
- Ukrainian: “Нова Британія”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo New Britain”
- Vietnamese: “New Britain”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bag-o nga Britanya”
- Waray (Philippines): “New Britain”
- Welsh: “New Britain”
- 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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