Goroka
Goroka is a city in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Famous for the yearly Goroka Show, it is also one of the closest major towns to Mt. Wilhelm, the highest summit in the country.Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Goroka Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: JialiangGao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Goroka Airport is an airport in Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
Raun Raun Theatre
Theatre
Photo: Brian ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Raun Raun Theatre is a movie theater in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.
Goroka
- Type: City with 75,900 residents
- Description: capital city of Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Category: locality
- Location: Eastern Highlands Province, Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-6.073° or 6° 4' 23" southLongitude
145.3933° or 145° 23' 36" eastPopulation
75,900Elevation
1,574 metres (5,164 feet)IATA airport code
GKAUnited Nations Location Code
PG GKAOpen Location Code
6R57W9GV+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 3235158927OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2096742Wikidata ID
Q498192Goroka Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: جوروكا
- Asturian: Goroka
- Catalan: Goroka
- Cebuano: Goroka
- Chinese: 戈罗卡
- Chinese: 戈羅卡
- Dutch: Goroka
- Egyptian Arabic: جوروكا
- Finnish: Goroka
- French: Goroka
- Galician: Goroka
- German: Goroka
- Hebrew: גורוקה
- Italian: Goroka
- Italian: Goroka Urban
- Japanese: ゴロカ
- Korean: 고로카
- Lithuanian: Goroka
- Persian: گوروکا
- Polish: Goroka
- Portuguese: Goroka
- Russian: Горока
- Spanish: Goroka
- Tok Pisin: Goroka
- Turkish: Goroka
- Ukrainian: Горока
- Urdu: گوروکا
- Garoka
- New Garoka
Other Places Named Goroka
In the Area
Goroka is situated close to the neighbourhoods Minogere Police Barracks and Genoka Ridge Top.
- Greathead Drive Housing EstateNeighbourhood
- Gaha Creek SettlementNeighbourhood
- Minogere Lodge SettlementNeighbourhood
- Pacific EstateNeighbourhood
- Genoka SettlementNeighbourhood
- Five Mile MaketVillage
Popular Destinations in Highlands
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Goroka. Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.