Central Province
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Key facts
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Districts
- List Abau District Goilala District Kairuku-Hiri District Rigo District Hiri-Koiari District
- Governor
- Rufina Peter
- Total
- 29,998 km (11,582 sq mi)
- Density
- 8.9925/km (23.290/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+10 ( AEST )
- Hdi 2018
- 0.556 , medium · 10th of 22
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Papua New Guinea
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Located in
- Southern Region
- Contains
- Abau District
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Area
- 29998
- Shares border with
- Milne Bay Province
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- language used
- Bauwaki
- topic's main category
- Category:Central Province (Papua New Guinea)
- Commons category
- Central Province (Papua New Guinea)
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Southern Region
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Encyclopedic overview
Central Province is a province in Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast of the country. It has a population of 237,016 (2010 census) people and is 29,998 square kilometres (11,582 sq mi) in size. The seat of government of Central Province, which is located within the National Capital District outside the province, is the Port Moresby suburb of Konedobu. On 9 October 2007, the Central Province government announced plans to build a new provincial capital city at Bautama, which lies within Central Province near Port Moresby, although there has been little progress in constructing it.
Whereas Tok Pisin is the main lingua franca in all Papua New Guinean towns, in part of the southern mainland coastal area centred on Central Province, Hiri Motu is a stronger lingua franca (but not in Port Moresby).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Central Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.