Daru
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{{Infobox PNG Place
| type = town
| name = Daru
| othername =
| province = wes
| llg = Daru Urban
| dot_x = 34
| dot_y = 125
| image = Daru-island-whirlwind-cropped-enhanced.png
| caption = [[Daru Island]], dominated by the township of '''Daru'''.
| pop = 12,879
| popdate = 2000
| poprank = 13th
| est =
| postcode =
| elevation = 5
| coor = {{coor dm|9|05|S|143|12|E|region:PG_type:city}}
| maxtemp = 30.5
| mintemp = 23.3
| rainfall = 2063
}}
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{{otheruses4|Daru, the Town and capital of Western Province|The Island with the same name|Daru Island}}
'''Daru''' Is the capital of the [[Western Province (Papua New Guinea)|Western Province]] of [[Papua New Guinea]]. The township is entirely located within an [[Daru Island|island]] that goes by the same name, which is located near the mouth of the [[Fly River]] on the western side of the Gulf, just north of [[Torres Strait]] and [[Far North Queensland]]. Daru has approximately the same population as [[Tabubil, Papua New Guinea|Tabubil]] and is the second-largest southern coastal settlement in Papua New Guinea after [[Port Moresby]].
The language of the Daru people is Kiwai (South-West Coastal Kiwai), also spoken on neighbouring mainland villages. However, the Kiwai settlement of Daru is fairly recent. The original inhabitants, the Hiamo, were Western-Central Torres Strait Islanders originally from Yama in Torres Strait. With the Kiwai colonisations, the main group of Hiamo people moved to Southern Torres Strait and settled the Muralag group.
'''Ek Desh Jaha Har Ek Insaan Sharaabi Hoga'''
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[[Category:Western Province]]
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