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Sorong

Sorong is the largest city of Southwest Papua province, on the western tip of the bird's head peninsula in , .
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  • Type: City with 255,000 residents
  • Description: city in Southwest Papua Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Sorong City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Port of Sorong.

Building
is a seaport in . This port contains both passenger and container terminal linking the with other regions of .

Sorong

Latitude
-0.8634° or 0° 51′ 48″ south
Longitude
131.2545° or 131° 15′ 16″ east
Population
255,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
SOQ
United Nations Location Code
ID SOQ
Open location code
6QFH47P3+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 806841357
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1626542
Wiki­data ID
Q26837
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Sorong” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Sorong”
  • Afrikaans: “Sorong”
  • Arabic: “سورونغ”
  • Arabic: “سورونق”
  • Aragonese: “Sorong”
  • Armenian: “Սորոնգ”
  • Arpitan: “Sorong”
  • Asturian: “Sorong”
  • Balinese: “Kota Sorong”
  • Basque: “Sorong”
  • Bavarian: “Sorong”
  • Belarusian: “Саронг”
  • Bengali: “সরং”
  • Betawi: “Sorong Kota”
  • Breton: “Sorong”
  • Catalan: “Sorong”
  • Cebuano: “Kota Sorong”
  • Cebuano: “Sorong”
  • Chinese: “Sorong Chhī”
  • Chinese: “梭隆”
  • Chinese: “索隆”
  • Chinese: “索龍”
  • Chinese: “索龙”
  • Chinese: “苏朗”
  • Corsican: “Sorong”
  • Croatian: “Sorong”
  • Czech: “Sorong”
  • Danish: “Sorong”
  • Dutch: “Sorong”
  • Esperanto: “Sorong”
  • Estonian: “Sorong”
  • Finnish: “Sorong”
  • French: “Sorong”
  • Friulian: “Sorong”
  • Galician: “Sorong”
  • German: “Sorong”
  • Greek: “Σορόνγκ”
  • Greek: “Σόρονγκ”
  • Gujarati: “સોરોંગ”
  • Hebrew: “סורונג”
  • Hindi: “सोरोंग”
  • Hungarian: “Sorong”
  • Icelandic: “Sorong”
  • Ido: “Sorong”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Sorong”
  • Indonesian: “Sorong”
  • Interlingua: “Sorong”
  • Interlingue: “Sorong”
  • Irish: “Sorong”
  • Italian: “Sorong”
  • Japanese: “コタソロン”
  • Japanese: “ソロン (インドネシア)”
  • Japanese: “ソロン”
  • Japanese: “ソロン”
  • Japanese: “ソロン市”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Sorong”
  • Javanese: “Sorong”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊರೊಂಗ್”
  • Kongo: “Sorong”
  • Korean: “소롱”
  • Latvian: “Sorona”
  • Latvian: “Soronga”
  • Ligurian: “Sorong”
  • Limburgan: “Sorong”
  • Lithuanian: “Sorongas”
  • Low German: “Sorong”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sorong”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Sorong”
  • Malay: “Kota Sorong”
  • Marathi: “सोरोंग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sorong Chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Sorong”
  • Narom: “Sorong”
  • Neapolitan: “Sorong”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sorong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sorong”
  • Norwegian: “Sorong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sorong”
  • Persian: “سورنگ”
  • Picard: “Sorong”
  • Piemontese: “Sorong”
  • Polish: “Sorong”
  • Portuguese: “Sorong”
  • Romanian: “Sorong”
  • Romansh: “Sorong”
  • Russian: “Соронг”
  • Sardinian: “Sorong”
  • Scots: “Sorong”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sorong”
  • Serbian: “Sorong”
  • Sicilian: “Sorong”
  • Sinhala: “සොරෝන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Sorong”
  • Slovenian: “Sorong”
  • Spanish: “Sorong”
  • Sundanese: “Sorong”
  • Swahili: “Sorong”
  • Swedish: “Sorong”
  • Swiss German: “Sorong”
  • Tamil: “ஸோரோங்”
  • Tatar: “Сороң”
  • Telugu: “సోరోంగ్”
  • Thai: “โซรอง”
  • Turkish: “Sorong”
  • Ukrainian: “Соронг”
  • Urdu: “سورونگ”
  • Venetian: “Sorong”
  • Vietnamese: “Sorong”
  • Vlaams: “Sorong”
  • Volapük: “Sorong”
  • Walloon: “Sorong”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sorong”
  • Welsh: “Sorong”
  • Western Panjabi: “سورونگ”
  • Wolof: “Sorong”
  • Zulu: “Sorong”
  • “Sorong”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sorong”. Photo: Lord Mountbatten, CC BY-SA 4.0.