Wamena
Wamena is a town in Papua. It is the capital of Highland Papua province. It is a gateway to go to the Baliem Valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 156,000 residents
- Description: district in Jayawijaya Regency, Highland Papua Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Wamena District” and “Wamena Kota”
Photo: Спасимир, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wamena Airport.
Wamena Airport
Aerodrome
Wamena Airport is an airport serving the town of Wamena, Jayawijaya Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. The airport also serves the neighboring Lanny Jaya Regency and Tolikara Regency.
Wamena
- Categories: distrik, capital of regency, and locality
- Location: Jayawijaya Regency, Highland Papua, Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-4.0944° or 4° 5′ 40″ southLongitude
138.9467° or 138° 56′ 48″ eastPopulation
156,000Elevation
1,488 metres (4,882 feet)IATA airport code
WMXUnited Nations Location Code
ID WMXOpen location code
6Q7WWW4W+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 1701246326OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1622167Wikidata ID
Q2307531
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Wamena” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وامينا”
- Bengali: “ওয়ামেনা”
- Bulgarian: “Уамена”
- Catalan: “Wamena”
- Chinese: “瓦梅納”
- Chinese: “瓦梅纳”
- Chinese: “瓦美娜”
- Dutch: “Wamena”
- French: “Wamena”
- German: “Wamena”
- Hausa: “Wamena”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Wamena”
- Indonesian: “Kecamatan Wamena”
- Indonesian: “Wamena, Jayawijaya”
- Indonesian: “Wamena”
- Italian: “Wamena”
- Japanese: “ワメナ”
- Javanese: “Wamena, Jayawijaya”
- Javanese: “Wamena”
- Korean: “와메나”
- Latvian: “Vamena”
- Lithuanian: “Vamena”
- Malay: “Wamena, Jayawijaya”
- Malay: “Wamena”
- Polish: “Wamena”
- Romanian: “Wamena”
- Russian: “Вамена”
- Spanish: “Wamena”
- Swedish: “Wamena”
- Tamil: “வாமெனா”
- Thai: “วาเมนา”
- Ukrainian: “Вамена”
- Western Panjabi: “وامینا”
- “Wamena”
- “Wamena, Jayawijaya”
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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 “Wamena”. Photo: Спасимир, CC BY-SA 4.0.