Kokoda

Kokoda
Kokoda Location within Papua New Guinea
Coordinates: 8°52′40″S 147°44′15″E / 8.87778°S 147.73750°E / -8.87778; 147.73750
Country	Papua New Guinea
Province	Oro (Northern)
District	Sohe District
LLG	Kokoda Rural LLG
Elevation	370 m (1,210 ft)
Population  (2011), quandl.com
• Total	658
Languages
• Main languages	Koiari, Motu
Time zone	UTC+10 (AEST)
Location	55 km (34 mi) WSW of Popondetta
Annual rainfall	5,000 mm (196.9 in)
Climate	Af

Kokoda is a station town in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. It is famous as the northern end of the Kokoda Track, site of the eponymous Kokoda Track campaign of World War II. In that campaign, it had strategic significance because it had the only airfield along the Track. In the decades preceding, it had been a foothills settlement near the gold fields.

Kokoda is located within the administrative divisions of Kokoda Rural LLG.