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List of cities and towns in Papua New Guinea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ496223 ↗
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This is a list of cities, towns, and villages in Papua New Guinea.

List

Papua New Guinea's three cities are Lae, Mount Hagen, and Port Moresby. The other settlements in the following list are towns and villages.

See also

Districts of Papua New Guinea

List of cities and towns in Papua New Guinea by population

List of cities in Oceania by population

Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea

Provinces of Papua New Guinea

Regions of Papua New Guinea

References

Citations

"Final Figures". www.nso.gov.pg. 2011 National Population and Housing Census: Ward Population Profile. Port Moresby: National Statistical Office, Papua New Guinea. 2014.

United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea - Postal codes and Coordinates".

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