Papua New Guinea
Southern Papua New Guinea
National Capital

Port Moresby

Port Moresby is the capital of . It is the gateway to PNG, and almost all visitors to the country pass through the city. While it has a daunting reputation due to high crime rates and is considered one of the least livable cities anywhere, almost all of the locals are welcoming and there are some interesting sights.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sir Hubert Murray Stadium.

Stadium
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The Hubert Murray Stadium is a sports venue located in Port Moresby, the capital city of . It was developed for the 1969 South Pacific Games on reclaimed land at that had previously been shoreline mangroves.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Konedobu and Three Mile.

Suburb
is a suburb of Port Moresby, the capital of . It is located in the valley in between Touaguba Hill and Burns Peak. The suburb is the location of numerous Government departments, including the headquarters of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary.

Suburb
3 Mile is a residential suburb of Port Moresby, the capital city of . It is adjacent to and The Port Moresby General Hospital is also inside this suburb.

Suburb
is a suburb of Port Moresby, the capital city of . It includes Murray Barracks, the Headquarter Battalion of Papua New Guinea Defense Force and also Headquarters PNG Pawa, the only Electricity provider in the country…

Port Moresby

Latitude
-9.4743° or 9° 28′ 28″ south
Longitude
147.16° or 147° 9′ 36″ east
Population
364,000
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
IATA airport code
POM
United Nations Location Code
PG POM
Open location code
6R29G5G5+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 230628786
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2088122
Wiki­data ID
Q36526
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Port Moresby” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Port Moresby”
  • Achinese: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Afrikaans: “Port Moresby”
  • Albanian: “Port Moresbi”
  • Amharic: “ፖርት ሞሬስቢ”
  • Amharic: “ፖርት ሞርስቢ”
  • Arabic: “بورت مورسبي”
  • Armenian: “Պորտ Մորսբի”
  • Asturian: “Puertu Moresbi”
  • Asturian: “Puertu Moresby”
  • Azerbaijani: “Port Morsbi”
  • Balinese: “Port Moresby”
  • Basque: “Port Moresby”
  • Belarusian: “Порт Морсбі”
  • Belarusian: “Порт Морсьбі”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-Морсбі”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট মোর্সবি”
  • Bislama: “Mosbi”
  • Bislama: “Port Moresby”
  • Bislama: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Bosnian: “Port Moresby”
  • Breton: “Port Moresby”
  • Breton: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Bulgarian: “Порт Морсби”
  • Bulgarian: “Столичен окръг”
  • Catalan: “Port Moresby”
  • Cebuano: “Port Moresby”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆرت مۆرسبی”
  • Chinese: “Port Moresby”
  • Chinese: “摩爾斯貝港”
  • Chinese: “莫士比港”
  • Chinese: “莫尔兹比港”
  • Chinese: “莫尔斯比港”
  • Chinese: “莫爾斯比港”
  • Chinese: “莫爾茲比港”
  • Croatian: “Port Moresby”
  • Czech: “Port Moresby”
  • Czech: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Danish: “Port Moresby”
  • Dutch: “Port Moresby”
  • Dutch: “Port-Moresby”
  • Dutch: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورت مورسبى”
  • Esperanto: “Port-Moresbo”
  • Esperanto: “Portmoresbo”
  • Estonian: “Mosbi”
  • Estonian: “Port Moresby”
  • Estonian: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Port Moresby”
  • Fijian: “Port Moresby”
  • Fijian: “Poti Moresipi”
  • Finnish: “Port Moresby”
  • French: “Port Moresby”
  • French: “Port-Moresby”
  • French: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Galician: “Port Moresby”
  • Galician: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Georgian: “პორტ-მორზბი”
  • Georgian: “პორტ-მორსბი”
  • German: “National Capital District”
  • German: “PG-NCD”
  • German: “Port Moresby”
  • Greek: “Πoρτ Μόουρσμπι”
  • Greek: “Πoρτ Μόρεσμπι”
  • Greek: “Πoρτ Μόρεσμπυ”
  • Greek: “Πoρτ Μόρσμπι”
  • Greek: “Πορτ Μόρεσμπι”
  • Greek: “Πόρτ Μόρεσμπι”
  • Guarani: “Port Moresby”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટ મોર્સબી”
  • Haitian: “Pò Moresbi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Port Moresby”
  • Hausa: “Port Moresby”
  • Hebrew: “פורט מורזבי”
  • Hebrew: “פורט מורסבי”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट मोरेस्बी”
  • Hindi: “पोर्ट मोर्स्बे”
  • Hungarian: “Port Moresby”
  • Icelandic: “Port Moresby”
  • Ido: “Port Moresby”
  • Indonesian: “Port Moresby”
  • Interlingua: “Port Moresby”
  • Irish: “Port Moresby”
  • Italian: “Port Moresby”
  • Japanese: “ポート・モレスビー”
  • Japanese: “ポートモレスビー”
  • Japanese: “首都区 (パプアニューギニア)”
  • Japanese: “首都区”
  • Javanese: “Port Moresby”
  • Javanese: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ ಮೊರೆಸ್ಬಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Port-Morsbi”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Порт Морсби”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Порт-Морсби”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-Морсби”
  • Khmer: “ព័រម៉ូរែសប៊ី”
  • Kirghiz: “Порт-Морсби”
  • Komering: “Port Moresby”
  • Korean: “포트 모르즈비”
  • Korean: “포트 모스비”
  • Korean: “포트모르즈비”
  • Korean: “포트모스비”
  • Kotava: “Port Moresby”
  • Kurdish: “Port Moresby”
  • Latin: “Port Moresby”
  • Latin: “Portus Moresbiensis”
  • Latin: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Latvian: “Port Moresby”
  • Latvian: “Portmorsbi”
  • Latvian: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Lithuanian: “Port Moresby”
  • Lithuanian: “Port Morsbis”
  • Lithuanian: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Lombard: “Port Moresby”
  • Lombard: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Port Moresby”
  • Macedonian: “Порт Морсби”
  • Maithili: “पोर्ट मोरेस्बी”
  • Malagasy: “Port Moresby”
  • Malay: “Port Moresby”
  • Malayalam: “പോർട്ട് മോറെസ്ബി”
  • Maori: “Pōti Mohipi”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट मॉरेस्बी”
  • Marathi: “पोर्ट मोरेस्बी”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Port Moresby”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Port Moresby”
  • Minangkabau: “Port Moresby”
  • Mingrelian: “პორტ-მორსბი”
  • Mongolian: “Порт-Морсби”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پورت موريسبي”
  • Nauru: “Port Moresby”
  • Nepali: “पोर्ट मोरेस्बी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Port Moresby”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Moresby”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Moresby”
  • Norwegian: “Port Moresby”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Port Moresby”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pot Mosbi”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Port Moresceby”
  • Ossetian: “Порт-Морсби”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਟ ਮੋਰੈਸਬੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਟ ਮੋਰੈੱਸਬੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Port Moresby”
  • Persian: “پورت مورزبی”
  • Persian: “پورت مورسبی”
  • Piemontese: “Port Moresby”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Port Morsbii”
  • Polish: “Port Moresby”
  • Portuguese: “Port Moresby”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Moresby”
  • Pushto: “پورټ مورسب”
  • Romanian: “Port Moresby”
  • Russian: “Port Moresby”
  • Russian: “Порт Морсби”
  • Russian: “Порт-Морсби”
  • Russian: “Столица Папуа — Новой Гвинеи”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱳᱨᱴ ᱢᱚᱨᱥᱵᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Port Moresby”
  • Scots: “Port Moresby”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Port Moresby”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Serbian: “Порт Морезби”
  • Serbian: “Порт Моресби”
  • Serbian: “Порт Морзби”
  • Serbian: “Порт Морсби”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Port Moresby”
  • Shona: “Port Moresby”
  • Silesian: “Port Moresby”
  • Sindhi: “پورٽ مورسبي”
  • Sinhala: “පොර්ට් මොරෙස්බි”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ට් මොස්බි”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ට් මෝර්ස්බි, පැපුවා නවගිනියාව”
  • Slovak: “Port Moresby”
  • Slovenian: “Port Moresby”
  • Somali: “Port Moresby”
  • Spanish: “Port Moresbi”
  • Spanish: “Port Moresby”
  • Spanish: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Moresby”
  • Swahili: “Port Moresby”
  • Swahili: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Swedish: “Port Moresby”
  • Swiss German: “Port Moresby”
  • Tagalog: “Port Moresby”
  • Tagalog: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Tahitian: “Port-Moresby”
  • Tajik: “Порт Морсби”
  • Tajik: “Порт-Морсби”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட் மோரெசிபிய”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட் மோர்ஸ்பி”
  • Tamil: “மார்சுபி துறைமுகம்”
  • Tatar: “Порт-Морсби”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్ మోరెస్బీ”
  • Thai: “Port Moresby”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตมอร์สบี”
  • Tibetan: “པོ་རོ་ཊི་མོ་རེ་སི་བི་”
  • Tibetan: “པོ་རོ་ཊི་མོ་རེ་སི་བི།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Mosbi”
  • Tok Pisin: “Port moresby”
  • Tok Pisin: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pooti Molesipī”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Port Moresby”
  • Turkish: “Port Moresby, Papua Yeni Gine”
  • Turkish: “Port Moresby”
  • Turkmen: “Port-Morsbi”
  • Uighur: “مورېسبى پورتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-Морсбі”
  • Urdu: “پورٹ مورسبی”
  • Uzbek: “Port Morsbi”
  • Uzbek: “Port-morsbi”
  • Venetian: “Port Moresby”
  • Veps: “Port Morsbi”
  • Vietnamese: “Cảng Moresby”
  • Vietnamese: “Port Moresby”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Port Moresby”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pot Mosbi”
  • Welsh: “Port Moresby”
  • Western Frisian: “Port Moresby”
  • Western Mari: “Порт Морсби”
  • Western Mari: “Порт-Морсби”
  • Western Panjabi: “پورٹ مورسبی”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پورٹ مورسبائی”
  • Wu Chinese: “莫爾茲比港”
  • Yakut: “Порт Морсби”
  • Yoruba: “Port Moresby”
  • Yoruba: “Pot Mosbi”
  • Yoruba: “Potmosbi”
  • Yue Chinese: “莫士比港”
  • Zulu: “i-Port Moresby”

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