Mount Hagen

Japanese: マウント・ハーゲン(英語表記)Mount Hagen
Mount Hagen
The capital of the Western Highlands region of Papua New Guinea. Population 13,000 (1980). There is a domestic airport, and a highway runs from Lae, a city on the east coast of New Guinea. The region's specialty products, such as black tea, coffee, and raw materials for insecticides (obtained from a type of daisy that grows at altitudes of 1,800 meters or higher), are collected in factories in or near the town and turned into products. [Yoshioka Masanori]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
パプア・ニューギニアの西部高地管区の主都。人口1万3000(1980)。国内線の空港があり,ニューギニア島東海岸にある都市ラエからハイウェーが通じる。同管区特産の紅茶,コーヒー,殺虫剤の原料(標高1800m以上の所に生育するジョチュウギクの一種からとる)などは町あるいは町の近くにある工場に集められ,製品化される。【吉岡 政徳】

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