Kiunga is a port town in Papua New Guinea's Western Province, on the Fly River just upstream of its junction with the Ok Tedi River. It sits at the southern end of the Kiunga-Tabubil Highway, making it the main link between the interior Ok Tedi copper and gold mine and the river transport network, with freight and haulage for the mine and for the larger town of Tabubil forming the core of its economy.
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1. GeoNames: Kiunga
GeoNames geonameid 2093846 (Kiunga), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -6.25, 141.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -6.25, 141.25
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3. GeoNames: Kiunga - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2093846, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2093846, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-6.12193 141.29061 P PPL PG 06 11536 40 Pacific/Port_Moresby
Kiunga (Wikipedia)
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