Ngerulmud
Ngerulmud is the seat of government of the Republic of Palau, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean.
Ngerulmud is the seat of government of the Republic of Palau, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean. It replaced Koror City as the capital in October 2006. The settlement is located in the state of Melekeok on Babeldaob, the country's largest island, located 20 kilometers northeast of Koror City and 2 km northwest of the village of Melekeok. With no permanent fixed population, it is the least-populous capital city of a sovereign nation in the world.
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Worth seeing in and around Ngerulmud
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Mount Ngerchelchuus
Mount Ngerchelchuus is the Republic of Palau's highest point, located at the border of the states of Ngardmau and Ngaremlengui, on the island of Babeldaob.
9.4 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 02Lake Ngardok
Lake Ngardok is a lake on the Palauan island of Babeldaob, in the State of Melekeok. It is the second largest natural freshwater lake in all of the islands of Micronesia, after Lake Susupe on the isle of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
2.6 km · lake in Palau · Wikipedia - 03Capitol of Palau
The Capitol of Palau is the palace of the Palau National Congress. It is located in Ngerulmud, the administrative capital of the country.
0 m · governemnt building of Palau · Wikipedia - 04Meteu 'L Klechem
Meteu 'L Klechem is a historic stone monolith in Melekeok, a community on the island of Babeldaob, the largest island in the nation of Palau. It is a roughly octagonal stone, 7 feet long and 2 feet thick, and weighing about 3,000 pounds.
1.6 km · Monolith and monument in Palau · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Palau's
The State of Melekeok is home to Palau's capital complex, though the village of Ngerulmud houses the complex.
- 02Ngermecheluch Site
Lomech er Ngii el mora (Ngeremecheluch).
- 03Odalmelech
- 04Badrulchau Stone Monoliths
Possibly Palau's largest archaeological site with a collection of 52 ancient stone monoliths.
From Wikivoyage: Ngerulmud, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Ngerulmud
- Airports
- Roman Tmetuchl (ROR), 17 km
- Yap Island → Ngerulmud457 km · quickest by air, 5h 54m · $260–390
- Davao → NgerulmudTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- General Santos → NgerulmudTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ngerulmud
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ngerulmud. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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