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New Guinea Highlands

chain of mountain ranges in New Guinea
Place mountain_range Q2961771

Facts

7 properties

Identity

Instance of
mountain range, WWF ecoregion[9]

Location

Country
Papua New Guinea, Indonesia[7][8]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -5.000°, 140.000°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Central Papua, Highland Papua, Momase Region, Southern Region, Highlands Region[2][3][4][5][6]
Located in/on physical feature
New Guinea[11]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+4884[12]
Highest point
Puncak Jaya[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Central Cordillera en Central Range en New Guinea Highlands ar مرتفعات غينيا الجديدة cs Centrální pohoří es Pastizales subalpinos de la Cordillera Central es Cordillera Central es montañas de Nueva Guinea fr chaîne Centrale fr cordillère Centrale he רמות גינאה החדשה hi न्यू गिनी ऊच्चभूमि hi न्यू गिनी हाईलैन्ड्ज़ hi मध्य पर्वतमाला id Pegunungan Tengah, Papua id Pegunungan Tengah it cordigliera centrale it New Guinea Highlands it Pegunungan Tengah ja セントラル山脈
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Papua New Guinea (5986599443).jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/The-Highlands
Freebase ID
/m/02x3hhc
Topic's main category
Category:New Guinea Highlands
Yale LUX ID
place/ab701304-e638-4fe1-83ad-889a3a9df369

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🔗 Connections
← Located in/on physical feature 3
Central Range sub-alpine grasslands, Central Range montane rain forests, Ertsberg
Country 2
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
← Mountain range 2
Bismarck Range, Maokebergen
Has these parts 1
Sudirmanbergen
Highest point 1
Puncak Jaya
Instance of 1
mountain range
Located in/on physical feature 1
New Guinea
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Summary

New Guinea Highlands is a mountain range[1].

Related Entities

Indonesia New Guinea Papua New Guinea Puncak Jaya

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Rémih · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Coordinates → —
    Highest point → Puncak Jaya
    Coordinate location → {'lat': -5, 'lon': 140}
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: place/The Highlands"
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