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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 i…
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, and marks the midpoint of the highway between these two capitals. 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.
  • Country: Papua New Guinea
  • Province: Sandaun Province (West Sepik)
  • Established: 1905
  • Elevation: 4 m (12 ft)
  • Location: 126 km (78 mi) ESE of Vanimo · 148 km (92 mi) WNW of Wewak
  • LLG: East Aitape Rural LLG
  • Time zone: UTC+10 (AEST)

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Data from: en.wikipedia.org