Rabaul
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.
- City with about 7,020 residents
- …has the IATA airport code RAB
- …was formerly known as “Simpsonhafen”
- Description: township in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
- Also known as“Exung”“Nankai Shi”“Simpson Harbour”
- Category: locality
- Location
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Latitude
-4.1985° or 4° 11′ 55″ south
Longitude
152.1728° or 152° 10′ 22″ east
UN/LOCODE
PG RAB
Open location code
6R7JR52F+J4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Rabaul” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راباول”
- Arabic: “رابول”
- Armenian: “Ռաբաուլ”
- Asturian: “Rabaul”
- Azerbaijani: “Rabaul”
- Basque: “Rabaul”
- Belarusian: “Рабаул”
- Bengali: “রাবাউল”
- Breton: “Rabaul”
- Bulgarian: “Рабаул”
- Catalan: “Rabaul”
- Cebuano: “Rabaul”
- Chinese: “拉包尔”
- Chinese: “拉包爾”
- Chinese: “拉寶爾”
- Chinese: “拉布爾”
- Chinese: “臘包爾”
- Chinese: “臘包爾港”
- Czech: “Rabaul”
- Danish: “Rabaul”
- Dutch: “Rabaul”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رابول”
- Esperanto: “Rabaul”
- Estonian: “Rabaul”
- Estonian: “Simpsonhafen”
- Finnish: “Rabaul”
- French: “Rabaul”
- Galician: “Rabaul”
- Georgian: “რაბაული”
- German: “Rabaul”
- German: “Simpson-Hafen”
- Hebrew: “רבאול”
- Indonesian: “Rabaul”
- Italian: “Rabaul”
- Japanese: “ラバウル”
- Korean: “라바울”
- Lithuanian: “Rabaulas”
- Marathi: “रबौल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rabaul”
- Norwegian: “Rabaul”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rabaul”
- Persian: “رابائول”
- Polish: “Rabaul”
- Portuguese: “Rabaul”
- Russian: “Рабаул”
- Serbian: “Рабаул”
- Silesian: “Rabaul”
- Slovak: “Rabaul”
- Slovenian: “Rabaul”
- Spanish: “Rabaul”
- Swedish: “Rabaul”
- Tok Pisin: “Rabaul”
- Turkish: “Rabaul”
- Ukrainian: “Рабаул”
- Urdu: “رابا ول”
- Vietnamese: “Rabaul”
- Yue Chinese: “拉包爾”
- Yue Chinese: “笠包”
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