Telefomin District

Telefomin District is a district of Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Telefomin.^[1] Its inhabitants include the Mountain Ok people, a cultural group with numerous sub-groups including the Telefol, the Urapmin, and the Wopkaimin. The Oksapmin also live in this district. Notable ethnographic research by Geoffrey B. Saxe at UC Berkeley has documented the encounter between pre-contact uses of number and its cultural evolution under conditions of monetization and exposure to schooling and the formal economy among the Oksapmin.^[2]

Telefomin District
Telefomin District Location within Papua New Guinea
Coordinates: 5°07′44″S 141°38′10″E / 5.129°S 141.636°E / -5.129; 141.636
Country	Papua New Guinea
Province	Sandaun Province
Capital	Telefomin
Government
• MP	Solan Mirisim
Area
• Total	16,333 km^2 (6,306 sq mi)
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	48,882
• Density	3.0/km^2 (7.8/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+10 (AEST)

References

1. Districts of Papua New Guinea at statoids.com
2. Especially The Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas [1]

5°07′44″S 141°38′10″E / 5.129°S 141.636°E / -5.129; 141.636