Bougainville · Papua New Guinea
Buin population
750people · latest figure
Buin has a population of 750, making it the 44th largest place we list in Papua New Guinea. It is in Bougainville.
Buin holds under a tenth of one per cent of Papua New Guinea's 10,947,848 people. Port Moresby, the largest place we list there, is 378 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 750 for Buin 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kandrian | West New Britain Province | 1,014 |
| Olsobip | Western Province | 1,000 |
| Laiagam | Enga Province | 921 |
| Ihu | Gulf Province | 712 |
| Manumu | Central Province | 596 |
| Wakunai | Bougainville | 558 |
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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.