Bougainville · Papua New Guinea
Arawa population
40,266people · latest figure
Arawa has a population of 40,266, making it the 3rd largest place we list in Papua New Guinea. It is in Bougainville.
Arawa holds 0.37% of Papua New Guinea's 10,947,848 people. Port Moresby, the largest place we list there, is 7.0 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 40,266 for Arawa in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Port Moresby | National Capital | 283,733 |
| Lae | Morobe Province | 76,255 |
| Mount Hagen | Western Highlands Province | 33,623 |
| Popondetta | Oro Province | 28,198 |
| Madang | Madang Province | 27,419 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.