Aitape

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Aitape

Total population

10,379

Coordinates-3.14°, 142.35°

Demographic figures from National Statistical Office (PNG). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Aitape is a small town of about 18,000 people on the north coast of Papua New Guinea in the Sandaun Province. It is a coastal settlement that is almost equidistant from the provincial capitals of Wewak and Vanimo. Aitape has 240 V power, telephone, a bank, a post-office, a courthouse and a police station, a supermarket and many tradestores, a petrol station, two airstrips, two secondary schools, a mission office and a hospital.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.