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Samarai
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thumb|250px|A commercial street scene on Samarai from 1906

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Place details

Locality
Samarai
Region
Milne Bay
Country
Papua Niugini
Population
1,638
Timezone
Pacific/Port_Moresby

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Air quality

55US AQIModerate
PM2.5
12.7 µg/m³
PM10
21.7 µg/m³
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Key facts

Islands.name
Samarai Island
Islands.native_name_lang
png
Islands.map
Papua New Guinea
Islands.location
Oceania
Islands.archipelago
Louisiade Archipelago
Islands.waterbody
Solomon Sea
Islands.total_islands
1
Islands.area_km2
0.29
Islands.length_km
0.8
Islands.width_km
0.4
Islands.coastline_km
2.31
Islands.elevation_ft
10
Islands.country
Papua New Guinea
Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
Province
Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
Island Group
Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
Samarai Islands
Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_2
Ward
Islands.country_admin_divisions_2
split

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Area
0.29
Elevation
10
Time zone
UTC+10:00
Body of water
Solomon Sea
Image
Samarai, PNG (9602449063).jpg
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Samarai
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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • History
  • Settlement
  • Decline and World War II
  • Administration
  • Demographics
  • Flora and fauna
  • Transportation
  • In popular culture
  • References
  • External links

thumb|250px|A commercial street scene on Samarai from 1906

Samarai is an island and former administrative capital in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samarai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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