Mount Hagen
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 Papua New Guinea
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 Western Highlands
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| Founded : | 1934 | ||
| Coordinates : | 5 ° 52 ′ S , 144 ° 13 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 1,677 m | ||
| Residents : | 46,256 (2013) | ||
| Time zone : | AEST (UTC + 10) | ||
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Mount Hagen (Eng .: Hagensberg ) is a city in Papua New Guinea and the capital of the Western Highlands province in the interior of the country. Mount Hagen has 46,256 inhabitants (census in 2013) and is located in the inland mountains near Mount Wilhelm .
Meaning of Mount Hagens
Mount Hagen is now the fourth largest city in Papua New Guinea; In 1980 it was the seventh largest. Mount Hagen has an airport and is served by several national airlines.
The city is one of the two trading centers of the highlands and faces some competition with the other, Goroka in the Eastern Highlands province .
Both cities are the starting point for tourists traveling further into the highlands and alternate in hosting the annual highland shows. Originally, these were peaceful meetings of some distant tribes, which among other things served to get to know one another.
history
The founding of the city goes back to the construction of the "Mogei drome" runway by the Leahy brothers (1934, already during the Australian colonial period), around which the later city of Mount Hagen grew. However, Mount Hagen is named after the governor of the German colony , Curt von Hagen .
geography
Due to its location in the mountains, Mount Hagen has a cooler climate that Europeans usually find pleasant.
Town twinning
- Orange , Australia ( New South Wales ) since 1985