City profile · Papua New Guinea · Oceania
Goroka
Eastern Highlands Province · Papua New Guinea
City population
18,503
#10
in Papua New Guinea
#26,945
worldwide
-6.085, 145.387 · 424 km from Port Moresby
About Goroka
Goroka is a city in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea with a population of 18,503. It is the 10th largest of the 13 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Papua New Guinea, and the 26,945th largest worldwide. It lies 424 km from Port Moresby.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Eastern Highlands Province
Elevation
1,574 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Pacific/Port_Moresby
Coordinates
-6.085, 145.387
Record updated
2026-04-14
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 13 in Papua New GuineaClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.