Sepik
The Sepik is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and the third largest in Oceania by discharge volume after the Fly and Mamberamo. The majority of the river flows through the Papua New Guinea provinces of Sandaun and East Sepik, with a small section flowing through the Indonesian province of Papua.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Wewak and Vanimo.
Wewak
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Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. It is on the northern coast of the island of New Guinea. It is the largest town between Madang and Jayapura. It is the see city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak.
Vanimo
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Vanimo is the capital of West Sepik, or Sandaun, province in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. You can travel overland to or from the neighbouring Indonesian province of Papua via Vanimo.
Sepik
- Type: river
- Description: river in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
- Location: Papua New Guinea, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-3.8423° or 3° 50′ 32″ southLongitude of center
143.1389° or 143° 8′ 20″ eastWikidata ID
Q848308
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Sepik” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sepik”
- Arabic: “سيبيك”
- Armenian: “Սեպիկ (գետ)”
- Armenian: “Սեպիկ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Sepik”
- Belarusian: “Рака Сепік”
- Belarusian: “Сепік”
- Bengali: “সেপিক”
- Breton: “Sepik”
- Bulgarian: “Сепик”
- Catalan: “Riu Sepik”
- Catalan: “Sepik”
- Cebuano: “Sungai Sepik”
- Chinese: “塞皮克河”
- Chuvash: “Сепик”
- Croatian: “Sepik”
- Czech: “Sepik”
- Dutch: “Sepik”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سيبيك”
- Estonian: “Sepiki jõgi”
- Finnish: “Sepik”
- French: “Sepik”
- Galician: “Río Sepik”
- Georgian: “სეპიკი”
- German: “Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss”
- German: “Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluß”
- German: “Sepik River”
- German: “Sepik-Fluss”
- German: “Sepik”
- Hebrew: “ספיק”
- Hungarian: “Sepik”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Sepik”
- Irish: “Sepik”
- Italian: “Sepik”
- Japanese: “セピック川”
- Korean: “세픽강”
- Lithuanian: “Sepikas”
- Malayalam: “സെപിക് നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sepik”
- Norwegian: “Sepik”
- Persian: “سپیک”
- Polish: “Sepik”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sepik”
- Portuguese: “Sepik”
- Russian: “Сепик”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sepik”
- Slovenian: “Sepik”
- Spanish: “Rio Sepik”
- Spanish: “Río Sepik”
- Spanish: “Sepik”
- Swahili: “Sepik”
- Swedish: “Sepik”
- Swedish: “Sepikfloden”
- Swedish: “Sungai Sepik”
- Swiss German: “Sepik”
- Tok Pisin: “Sepik”
- Tosk Albanian: “Sepik”
- Turkish: “Sepik”
- Ukrainian: “Селік”
- Ukrainian: “Сепік”
- Venetian: “Sepik”
- Welsh: “Afon Sepik”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sepik”. Photo: Top1963, CC BY-SA 3.0.