New Ireland · Papua New Guinea
Namatanai population
1,542people · latest figure
Namatanai has a population of 1,542, making it the 39th largest place we list in Papua New Guinea. It is in New Ireland.
Namatanai 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 184 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 1,376, a rise of 12%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Samarai | Milne Bay Province | 1,638 |
| Porgera | Enga Province | 1,578 |
| Bereina | Central Province | 1,565 |
| Finschhafen | Morobe Province | 1,054 |
| Kandrian | West New Britain Province | 1,014 |
| Olsobip | Western Province | 1,000 |
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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.