Port Moresby Geographic coordinates

Port Moresby is located at latitude -9.47723 and longitude 147.15089. It is part of Oceania and the southern hemisphere.

The geographic coordinate system enables any place in the world to be located using its latitude and longitude. The latitude is the position relative to the equator, specifying the north-south position. The longitude specifies the east-west position measured from a reference meridian (usually the Greenwich Prime Meridian). The latitude and longitude of Port Moresby have been calculated based on the geodetic datum WGS84.

Map of Port Moresby with coordinates

Latitude and longitude of Papua New Guinea

There are many systems and formats to represent geographic coordinates. The following table matches the equivalence between the most common formats:

System	Latitude	Longitude
Simple decimal standard	-9.47723	147.15089
Decimal Degrees (DD)	9.4772° S	147.1509° E
Degrees and Decimal Minutes (DDM)	9°28.634' S	147°9.053' E
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (DMS)	9°28'38'' S	147°9'3.2'' E