Papua New Guinea
Sepik
Sandaun Province

Vanimo

Vanimo is the capital of West Sepik, or Sandaun, province in the region of Papua New Guinea. You can travel overland to or from the neighbouring Indonesian province of via Vanimo.
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  • 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”, and “Wanimo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vanimo Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport in Vanimo, . The airport previously served international flights until 1997.

Vanimo

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
United Nations Location Code
PG VAI
Open location code
6R938882+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1250713619
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2084442
Wiki­data ID
Q1017354
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Vanimo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فانيمو”
  • Asturian: “Vanimo”
  • 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”
  • Indonesian: “Vanimo”
  • Italian: “Vanimo Urban”
  • Italian: “Vanimo”
  • Japanese: “ヴァニモ”
  • Japanese: “バニモ”
  • Korean: “바니모”
  • Lithuanian: “Vanimas”
  • Mingrelian: “ვანიმო”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vanimo”
  • Norwegian: “Vanimo”
  • Persian: “وانیمو”
  • Polish: “Vanimo”
  • Portuguese: “Vanimo”
  • Russian: “Ванимо”
  • Spanish: “Vanimo”
  • Swedish: “Vanimo”
  • Tok Pisin: “Vanimo”
  • Ukrainian: “Ванімо”
  • Urdu: “وانیمو”

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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 “Vanimo”. Photo: Nomadtales, CC BY 2.5.