City profile · Papua New Guinea · Oceania
Mount Hagen
Western Highlands Province · Papua New Guinea
City population
33,623
#4
in Papua New Guinea
#16,291
worldwide
-5.857, 144.231 · 515 km from Port Moresby
About Mount Hagen
Mount Hagen is a city in Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea with a population of 33,623. It is the 4th largest of the 13 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Papua New Guinea, and the 16,291st largest worldwide. It lies 515 km from Port Moresby.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Western Highlands Province
Elevation
1,728 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Pacific/Port_Moresby
Coordinates
-5.857, 144.231
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.