Wapenamanda District is a district in Enga Province of

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. Its capital is Wapenamanda. The population of the district was 71,797 at the 2011 census.Districts of Papua New Guinea
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Wapenamanda Airport Wapenamanda Airport is an airport in Wapenamanda, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen S ...

, the only airport in Enga Province is located in Wapenamanda Town.

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PNG Air PNG Air is an airline based on the grounds of Jacksons International Airport, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. It operates scheduled domestic and international flights, as well as contract corporate charter work. Its main base is Jacksons Interna ...

service flights daily to Wapenamanda out of

Port Moresby (; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New ...

. There are three secondary schools in the district which are St Paul's Lutheran Secondary School, Highlands Lutheran International School and the newly created Wapenamanda Foursquare Secondary. Wapenamanda is considered one of the province's food baskets. The landscape includes plateaus, valleys, gorges and ravines. The lower Lai basin is a fertile valley towards the Sepik river. To the south of those gorges lie the Minamb valley. Wapenamanda is divided into two Local Level Governments – Wapenamanda Rural and Tsak LLG. Tsak is more populous. The road network is being slowly improved. Power is slowly being connected, starting with Tsak. The road to Tsak has been sealed. Lowerlai, with a population of about 11,000 people, has not benefited from the power projects. The road network into lower is also attended to on a piecemeal basis. Digicel mobile communication towers cover 60% of the district. Constituents who reside in lower-lying areas suffer from low bandwidth and network connectivity problems. Wapenamanda has one hospital, the Mambisanda Immanuel Hospital run by the Good News Lutheran Church. Law and order is maintained by and self-balancing local leadership structure.

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Districts of Papua New Guinea Enga Province {{EngaProvince-geo-stub