Eastern Highlands Province · Papua New Guinea
Kainantu population
8,509people · latest figure
Kainantu has a population of 8,509, making it the 21st largest place we list in Papua New Guinea. It is in Eastern Highlands Province.
Kainantu 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 33 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 8,509 for Kainantu 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tabubil | Western Province | 10,270 |
| Alotau | Milne Bay Province | 10,025 |
| Kundiawa | Chimbu Province | 9,383 |
| Tari | Hela Province | 8,186 |
| Rabaul | East New Britain Province | 8,074 |
| Ialibu | Southern Highlands Province | 6,915 |
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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.