Sorong
Sorong is the largest city of Southwest Papua province, on the western tip of the bird's head peninsula in Papua, Indonesia.
- Type: City with 302,000 residents
- Description: city in Southwest Papua Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Sorong City”, “コタソロン”, “ソロン<!-- [[:en:Solon]] とリンク -->”, “ソロン市”, “梭隆”, “索隆”, and “苏朗”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Domine Edward Osok Airport.
Sorong
- Categories: city of Indonesia and locality
- Location: Southwest Papua, Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-0.8806° or 0° 52′ 50″ south
Longitude
131.2879° or 131° 17′ 16″ east
Population
302,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
SOQ
UN/LOCODE
ID SOQ
Open location code
6QFH479Q+P4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “索龍”
- Chinese: “索龙”
- 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: “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: “ソロン (インドネシア)”
- Japanese: “ソロン”
- Javanese: “Kutha Sorong”
- Javanese: “Sorong”
- Jèrriais: “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”
- Neapolitan: “Sorong”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sorong”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sorong”
- Norwegian: “Sorong”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sorong”
- Persian: “سورنگ”
- Persian: “سورونگ”
- 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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