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Kokoda
Sign in to saveKokoda is a station town in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. It is famous as the northern end of the Kokoda Track, site of the eponymous Kokoda Track campaign of World War II. In that campaign, it had strategic significance because it had the only airfield along the Track. In the decades preceding, it had been a foothills settlement near the gold fields.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kokoda
- Region
- Oro
- Country
- Papua Niugini
- Population
- 6,199
- Timezone
- Pacific/Port_Moresby
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kokoda
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Papua New Guinea
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Papua New Guinea
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Papua New Guinea
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Oro (Northern)
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sohe District
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- LLG
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Kokoda Rural LLG
- Settlement.population_total
- 658
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_footnotes
- , quandl.com
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.demographics_type1
- Languages
- Settlement.demographics1_title1
- Main languages
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Located in
- Sohe District
- Population
- 658
- Elevation
- 370
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Establishment of the station town
- World War II
- Climate
- See also
- References
Kokoda is a station town in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. It is famous as the northern end of the Kokoda Track, site of the eponymous Kokoda Track campaign of World War II. In that campaign, it had strategic significance because it had the only airfield along the Track. In the decades preceding, it had been a foothills settlement near the gold fields.
Kokoda is located within the administrative divisions of Kokoda Rural LLG.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kokoda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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