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Yambali
Yambali is a village in Maip Muritaka Rural LLG, Lagaip District of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. It is located directly at the Laiagam- Porgera road. Yambali is 595 km (370 mi) northwest of the capital, Port Moresby. As of May 2024, Yambali had a population of nearly 4,000 people. The settlement was destroyed in the 2024 Enga landslide On 24 May 2024, a landslide occurred in Maip Muritaka Rural LLG, Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea. By 7 June, 12 bodies had been recovered, with thousands more buried and presumed dead, though estimates of the death toll vary greatly, with some estim .... References Populated places in Enga Province {{EngaProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maip Muritaka Rural LLG
Maip Muritaka Rural LLG is a local-level government of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. In the news coverage of the 2024 Enga landslide affecting Yambali and Kaokalam villages, it was generally referred to as "''Mulitaka''". Wards *01. Tumudane *02. Walya *03. Yeim *04. Yalum *05. Tombaip *06. Rumbapes *07. Yambali *08. Mulitaka *09. Torenam *10. Malaumanda *11. Lauk *12. Tokom (Winjak) *13. Lemong/Poreak *14. Kaundak *15. Pokolip *16. Yuyango *17. Puaipak *18. Paitengis *19. Ipalopa See also *2024 Enga landslide On 24 May 2024, a landslide occurred in Maip Muritaka Rural LLG, Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea. By 7 June, 12 bodies had been recovered, with thousands more buried and presumed dead, though estimates of the death toll vary greatly, with some estim ... References * * Local-level governments of Enga Province {{EngaProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Enga Landslide
On 24 May 2024, a landslide occurred in Maip Muritaka Rural LLG, Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea. By 7 June, 12 bodies had been recovered, with thousands more buried and presumed dead, though estimates of the death toll vary greatly, with some estimating that only 160 had died. Background Papua New Guinea has regularly experienced fatal landslides resulting from its mountainous terrain, weather, climate, poverty, poor land use practices and government mismanagement. In 2024, the country saw intense rainfall and flooding, and in April, 14 people died in a landslide, while 21 died in a landslide one month earlier. Cause On 18 May, a 4.5 earthquake occurred west of where the landslide happened. It struck below the surface and has been suggested as a possible cause of the landslide. However, the Red Cross has stated that there was no indication that the earthquake caused the landslide, instead attributing it to either Mining in Papua New Guinea, gold mining or heavy rain. Papua New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border, a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital, on its southern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest list of island countries, island country, with an area of . The nation was split in the 1880s between German New Guinea in the North and the Territory of Papua, British Territory of Papua in the South, the latter of which was ceded to Australia in 1902. All of present-day Papua New Guinea came under Australian control following World War I, with the legally distinct Territory of New Guinea being established out of the former German colony as a League of Nations mandate. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lagaip District
Lagaip Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... Wards *01. Mamale *02. Wapele *03. Kembos *04. Komaip *05. Wanepos *06. Takuup *07. Kasap *08. Yangiyangi *09. Kindarep *10. Yakenda *11. Keriapaka *12. Aiyak (Aiyaka) *13. Ipai *14. Lyonge *15. Paip *16. Liop *17. Yaki Due *18. Sirunki *19. Yailingis *20. Kaipare *21. Pore *22. Tukusenda (Tukisenta) *23. Nagulama *24. Yomondi *25. Kusi *26. Paindako *27. Kulita *28. Watali *29. Pipingus *30. Kuimas *81. Laiagam Urban References * * Local-level governments of Enga Province {{EngaProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enga Province
Enga is one of the provinces in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Enga is geographically situated in the northern region of Papua New Guinea and was separated from the adjacent Western Highlands at the time of national independence in 1975. The majority ethnic group are Engans. Approximately 500,000 people live within the province, which has one spoken language in all five of its districts. A small minority of Engans' land on the eastern side of the region remained in the Western Highlands, their territory being accessible by road from Mount Hagen but not directly from elsewhere in Enga territory. History Europeans—typically Australian gold prospectors—originally entered what is now Enga province from the east in the late 1920s, although the best-known exploration of Enga took place during the early 1930s when Mick Leahy and a party of men travelled from what later became Mount Hagen to the site of the future Wabag and then south through the Ambum Valley to what later became East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laiagam
Laiagam is situated in the west of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. It is the main town of the newly created Lagaip District; after it was separated from the then Lagaip-Porgera District by the Papua New Guinea Parliament through an Act passed in 2021. It is still the largest and most populated district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ... of Enga's five administrative districts. Populated places in Enga Province {{EngaProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porgera
Porgera (also spelled Pogera) is a town in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. It lies to the east of Porgera Gold Mine. It is administered under Porgera Rural LLG. {{Authority control Populated places in Enga Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Moresby
(; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New Zealand. It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the south-western coast of the Papuan Peninsula of the island of New Guinea. The city emerged as a trade centre in the second half of the 19th century. During World War II, it was a prime objective for conquest by the Japan during World War II, Imperial Japanese forces during 1942–43 as a staging point and air base to cut off Australia from Southeast Asia and the Americas. Due to its population and outsized influence compared to other cities in Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby may be regarded as a primate city. As of the 2011 census, Port Moresby had 364,145 inhabitants. An unofficial 2020 estimate gives the population as 383,000. The place where the city was founded has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
