Sorong (city)

Sorong (city)
Sorong
Nuwar
—  City  —
Nickname(s): Cahaya Islam
Sorong is located in Bird's Head Peninsula
Sorong
Location of the town in the Bird's Head Peninsula
Sorong is located in Indonesia
Sorong
Location of the town in Indonesia
Coordinates: 0°52′S 131°15′E / 0.867°S 131.25°E / -0.867; 131.25
Country  Indonesia
Province West Papua
Population
 – City 125,535
 – Metro 184,239
Time zone WIB (UTC+7)

Sorong is a chartered coastal city in the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua. Its only land borders are with Sorong Regency. It is the gateway to Indonesia's Raja Ampat Islands, species rich coral reef islands in an area considered the heart of the world's coral reef biodiversity. It also the logistics hub for Indonesia's thriving eastern oil and gas frontier. Sorong has experienced exponential growth in the last five years, and further growth is anticipated as Sorong becomes linked by road to other frontier towns in Papua's Bird's Head Peninsula. The city has a population of 125,535.

Container port

A container port will be built in Sorong with an annual container handling capacity of 500,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and cost Rp.800 billion ($93.6 million). Construction will be initilised at early 2012 and expect to finish in the middle of 2013.[1]

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References

Coordinates: 0°52′S 131°15′E / 0.867°S 131.25°E / -0.867; 131.25



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