Western Province
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province of Papua New Guinea
Key facts
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Capital
- Daru
- Districts
- List North Fly Middle Fly South Fly Delta Fly
- Governor
- Taboi Awi Yoto (since 2017)
- Total
- 98,189 km (37,911 sq mi)
- Density
- 2.0506/km (5.3112/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+10 ( AEST )
- Hdi 2018
- 0.550 , medium · 11th of 22
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Papua New Guinea
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Located in
- Papua New Guinea
- Contains
- Middle Fly District
- Capital
- Daru
- Area
- 98189
- Shares border with
- Papua
- Image
- Trans Fly Bensbach 2007.jpg
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- language used
- Hermit
- Commons category
- Western Province (Papua New Guinea)
- topic's main category
- Category:Western Province (Papua New Guinea)
- native label
- Western Province
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Southern Region
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Encyclopedic overview
Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian provinces of Highland Papua and South Papua. The provincial capital is Daru. The largest town in the province is Tabubil. Other major settlements are Kiunga, Ningerum, Olsobip and Balimo.
The provincial government has, as with the governments of North Solomons, Chimbu and Northern provinces, sought to change the name of the province. The government uses the name Fly River Provincial Government; however, this remains unofficial as it has not been changed in the Constitution of Papua New Guinea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Western Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.