Madang is the capital of Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is a town with a population of 27,420 on the north coast of the country and is one of Papua New Guinea's major towns.
Facts
Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Madang - Wikipedia
Infobox: population_total
29339
Infobox: population_as_of
2013
Lead section
In April 1884 an expedition by the German New Guinea Company led by Otto Finsch and Eduard Dallmann arrived and named the landing point "Friedrich Wilhelmshafen"; however, they felt that the area was unsuitable for a settlement.
Infobox, Elevation
3 m (9.8 ft)
Infobox, coordinates latitude
5.217°S
Infobox, coordinates longitude
145.800°E
- In Group: Cities of Oceania (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source2. GeoNames: Madang - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2091996
-5.22152 145.78695 P PPLA PG 12 27419 4 Pacific/Port_Moresby
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 4 m
View the Source 3. 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 -5.25, 145.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -5.25, 145.75
-5.25 145.75 Af
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