Western Province, is a province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering Irian Jaya. The provincial capital is Daru, on the islands of Daru. Western Province covers 99,300 km2 and is the largest province in Papua New Guinea by area, there are approximately 126,411 inhabitants. There are several large rivers that run through the province including the Fly River and its tributaries including the Strickland and Ok Tedi rivers, the larget lake in Papua New Guinea Lake Murray is also in Western Province. Map showing Papua province in Indonesia Papua is a province of Indonesia comprising part of the western half of the island of New Guinea and nearby islands. ... The Fly is the longest river of the island of New Guinea. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... The Ok Tedi is a river in Papua New Guinea. ...
WesternProvince is a coastal province in southwestern PapuaNewGuinea, bordering the Indonesian province of Papua.
In the province is the only part of PapuaNewGuinea which is west of the 141°E line that divides it from Indonesian WesternNewGuinea.
The major economic activity in the province is constituted by the Ok Tedi mine, initially established by BHP and the subject of considerable litigation by traditional landowners both in respect of environmental degradation and disputes over royalties.
Comprising most of the western half of NewGuinea and a number of offshore islands, it is Indonesia's largest province.
It borders on the Gulf of Guinea (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean) in the south, on Benin in the west, on Niger in the northwest and north, on Chad in the
It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Guinea in the north and east, and by Liberia in the south.
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