Local time
Thu, 10:05 PM GMT+10Pacific/Port_MoresbyCity
Lae
6.73° S, 146.99° E
- Population
- 131,052
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 2 of 19
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 19 cities of Papua New Guinea in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Papua New Guinea, so this is not a national ranking.
- Elevation
- 8 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Lae District
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Pacific/Port_Moresby
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Practical bearings for Lae, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Lae have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
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