Oro Province · Papua New Guinea
Popondetta population
28,198people · latest figure
Popondetta has a population of 28,198, making it the 5th largest place we list in Papua New Guinea. It is in Oro Province.
Popondetta holds 0.26% of Papua New Guinea's 10,947,848 people. Port Moresby, the largest place we list there, is 10 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 28,198 for Popondetta 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lae | Morobe Province | 76,255 |
| Arawa | Bougainville | 40,266 |
| Mount Hagen | Western Highlands Province | 33,623 |
| Madang | Madang Province | 27,419 |
| Kokopo | East New Britain Province | 26,273 |
| Mendi | Southern Highlands Province | 26,252 |
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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.