Aitape
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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
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Transport
- History
- Second World War
- Tsunami
- Climate
- See also
- 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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