Islands Region

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Islands Region is an administrative region of Papua New Guinea comprising several major island provinces in the country’s northeast.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Islands Region canonical 13

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf region of Papua New Guinea
administrativeDivisionOf Papua New Guinea
borderedBy Highlands Region
linked to: Highlands region

Momase Region
Southern Region
capital Kokopo
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
countryCapital Port Moresby
formerLargestCity Rabaul
governmentType decentralized provincial administration within Papua New Guinea
hasCharacteristic tropical climate
volcanic activity
hasEconomicActivity cocoa production
copra production
fishing
oil palm cultivation
hasEthnicGroup Bougainvillean people
linked to: Bougainvilleans

Manus people
Tolai people
hasHistoricalEvent 1994 Rabaul volcanic eruptions
World War II campaigns in New Britain
hasIsland Bougainville Island
Manus Island
New Britain
New Ireland
hasPart Autonomous Region of Bougainville
Bougainville
East New Britain Province
Manus Province
New Ireland Province
West New Britain Province
hasReligion Christianity
hasSea Bismarck Sea
Solomon Sea
hasTransportHub Tokua Airport
ISO3166-1Alpha2 PG
largestCity Kokopo
locatedIn Bismarck Archipelago
Southwest Pacific Ocean
northeastern Papua New Guinea
officialLanguage English
Hiri Motu
Tok Pisin
partOf Papua New Guinea
timeZone UTC+10
usesCurrency Papua New Guinean kina

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Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kimbe region Islands Region
Talasea locatedIn Islands Region
Lakalai people locatedIn Islands Region
Momase Region bordersRegion Islands Region
Nukumanu Rural LLG partOf Islands Region
Independent State of Papua New Guinea hasRegion Islands Region
Duke of York Rural LLG locatedIn Islands Region
Pomio locatedIn Islands Region
Lorengau Airport regionServed Islands Region
Manus Provincial Assembly locatedIn Islands Region
Momote partOf Islands Region