Vanimo
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.
- Type: City with 73,700 residents
- Description: capital town of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Angriffs-Hafen”, “Attack Bay”, “Vanimo Government Station”, “Vanimo Urban”, “Wanimo”, and “バニモ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Vanimo Airport.
Vanimo
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Sandaun Province, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-2.6848° or 2° 41′ 5″ south
Longitude
141.3009° or 141° 18′ 3″ east
Population
73,700
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
VAI
UN/LOCODE
PG VAI
Open location code
6R938882+39
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Vanimo” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቫኒሞ”
- Arabic: “فانيمو”
- Asturian: “Vanimo”
- Azerbaijani: “Vanimo”
- Belarusian: “Ваніма”
- Bengali: “ভানিমো”
- Cebuano: “Vanimo (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Vanimo”
- Chinese: “瓦尼莫”
- Dutch: “Vanimo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قرية فانيمو”
- Estonian: “Vanimo”
- French: “Vanimo”
- Galician: “Vanimo”
- German: “Vanimo”
- Hausa: “Vanimo”
- Hindi: “वानिमो”
- Indonesian: “Vanimo”
- Italian: “Vanimo”
- Japanese: “ヴァニモ”
- Japanese: “ワニモ”
- Javanese: “Vanimo”
- Kazakh: “Ванимо”
- Kirghiz: “Ванимо”
- Korean: “바니모”
- Lithuanian: “Vanimas”
- Malay: “Vanimo”
- Mingrelian: “ვანიმო”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vanimo”
- Norwegian: “Vanimo”
- Oromo: “Vanimo”
- Panjabi: “ਵਾਨਿਮੋ”
- Persian: “وانیمو”
- Polish: “Vanimo”
- Portuguese: “Vanimo”
- Pushto: “وانیمو”
- Russian: “Ванимо”
- Somali: “Vanimo”
- Spanish: “Vanimo”
- Swahili: “Vanimo”
- Swedish: “Vanimo”
- Tajik: “Ванимо”
- Tatar: “Ванимо”
- Tok Pisin: “Vanimo”
- Turkish: “Vanimo”
- Ukrainian: “Ванімо”
- Urdu: “وانیمو”
- Uzbek: “Vanimo”
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