Central Province is a province

Provinces of Papua New Guinea

The provinces of Papua New Guinea are the primary administrative divisions of the country. Provincial governments are branches of the national government– Papua New Guinea is not a federation of provinces...

 in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

 located on the southern coast of the country. It has a population of 183,983 (2000 census) people and is 29500 square kilometres (11,390 sq mi) in size. The seat of government of Central Province, which is located within the National Capital District outside the province, is the Port Moresby

Port Moresby

Port Moresby , or Pot Mosbi in Tok Pisin, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea . It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the island of New Guinea, which made it a prime objective for conquest by the Imperial Japanese forces during 1942–43...

 suburb of Konedobu

Konedobu

Konedobu is a suburb of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. It is located in the valley in between Touaguba Hill and Burns Peak.The suburb is the location of numerous government departments, including the headquarters of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. It also contains...

. On 9 October 2007, the Central Province government announced plans to build a new provincial capital city at Bautama, which lies within Central Province near Port Moresby, although there has been little progress in constructing it.

Whereas Tok Pisin

Tok Pisin

Tok Pisin is a creole spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in that country...

 is the main lingua franca

Lingua franca

A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both mother tongues.-Characteristics:"Lingua franca" is a functionally defined term, independent of the linguistic...

 in all Papua New Guinean towns, in part of the southern mainland coastal area centred on Central Province, Hiri Motu is a stronger lingua franca (but not in Port Moresby).

Districts and LLGs

Each province in Papua New Guinea has one or more districts, and each district has one or more Local Level Government (LLG) areas. For census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

 purposes, the LLG areas are subdivided into wards and those into census units.

District	District Capital	LLG Name
Abau District Abau District Abau District is a district of Central Province in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the four administrative districts that make up the province.-Local-level government areas:* Amazon Bay Rural* Aroma Rural* Cloudy Bay Rural-Towns and major villages:...	Abau	Amazon Bay Rural
		Aroma Rural
		Cloudy Bay Rural
Goilala District Goilala District Goilala District is a district of Central Province in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the four administrative districts that make up the province.-Local-level government areas:* Guari Rural* Tapini Rural* Woitape Rural-Towns and major villages:...	Tapini	Guari Rural Guari Rural LLG The Guari Rural LLG is a local level government area situated in the Goilala District of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea. In 2000, the LLG had 1,148 households, and a population of 5,438...
		Tapini Rural Tapini Rural LLG The Tapini Rural LLG is a local level government area situated in the Goilala District of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea. In 2000, the LLG had 1,685 households, and a population of 7,315...
		Woitape Rural
Kairuku-Hiri District Kairuku-Hiri District Kairuku-Hiri District is a district of Central Province in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the four administrative districts that make up the province, and surrounds the national capital, Port Moresby....	Bereina Bereina Bereina is a town in the Central Province of Papua New Guinea. It is located on the Hiritano Highway about northwest of Port Moresby, and contains the headquarters of both the Kairuku-Hiri District and the Kairuku Rural local-level government area. Bereina also hosts a regional...	Hiri Rural
		Kairuku Rural Kairuku Rural LLG The Kairuku Rural LLG is a local level government area situated in the Kairuku-Hiri District of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea. In 2000, the LLG had 3,485 households, and a population of 19,503 . As of 2007, 3,078 students are enrolled in 20 schools in the LLG...
		Koiari Rural
		Mekeo Kuni Rural
Rigo District Rigo District Rigo District is a district of Central Province in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the four administrative districts that make up the province.-Local-level government areas:* Rigo Central Rural* Rigo Coastal Rural* Rigo Inland Rural...	Kwikila	Rigo Central Rural
		Rigo Coastal Rural
		Rigo Inland Rural

Sources/Further Reading

• Hanson, L.W., Allen, B.J., Bourke, R.M. and McCarthy, T.J. (2001). Papua New Guinea Rural Development Handbook. Land Management Group, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra. Available as a 30 Megabyte PDF.