Aitape
Sign in to savethumb|Aitape Beach thumb|upright|Sergeant Siffleet's execution at Aitape, 1943
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The entry is geolocated on the map in PG, across 3 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 203 inbound references to Aitape, and connects out to World War II, Papua New Guinea and World War I.
It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Sandaun Province.
Vinony links it to 15 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Aitape
- Region
- Sandaun
- Country
- Papua Niugini
- Population
- 5,547
- Timezone
- Pacific/Port_Moresby
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Aitape
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Aitape.png
- Settlement.image_caption
- Aitape (lower right) and Tumleo Island (left)
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Papua New Guinea Sandaun Province#Papua New Guinea
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Sandaun Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Papua New Guinea
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Sandaun Province (West Sepik)
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- LLG
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- East Aitape Rural LLG
- Settlement.population_total
- 18,000
- Settlement.population_rank
- 10th
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.demographics1_title1
- Main languages
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1905
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Located in
- Sandaun Province
- Population
- 6931
- Elevation
- 4
- Image
- Aitape.png
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- inception
- 1905-00-00
- P12749
- V for Vendetta
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Second World War
- Tsunami
- Climate
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- References
thumb|Aitape Beach thumb|upright|Sergeant Siffleet's execution at Aitape, 1943
Aitape is a small town of about 18,000 people on the north coast of Papua New Guinea in the Sandaun Province. It is a coastal settlement that is almost equidistant from the provincial capitals of Wewak and Vanimo. Aitape has 240 V power (in general 24 hours), telephone, a bank, a post-office, a courthouse and a police station, a supermarket and many tradestores, a petrol station, two airstrips, two secondary schools, a mission office and a hospital.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aitape” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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