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Definition: Papua New Guinea from Collins English Dictionary

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1 a country in the SW Pacific; consists of the E half of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the W Solomon Islands, Trobriand Islands, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Woodlark Island, and the Louisiade Archipelago; administered by Australia from 1949 until 1975, when it became an independent member of the Commonwealth. Official language: English; Tok Pisin (English Creole) and Motu are widely spoken. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: kina. Capital: Port Moresby. Pop: 6 431 902 (2013 est). Area: 461 693 sq km (178 260 sq miles)

Papua New Guinea

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Country in the southwest Pacific, comprising the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and part of the Solomon Islands. Government Papua New Guinea is a multiparty democracy, with a prime ministerial political executive. Under the 1975 constitution, the British monarch is the formal head of state, represented by a resident governor general who is nominated by parliament for a six-year term. Actual executive power is held by a prime minister, formally appointed by the governor general, but who is able to command a majority in the parliament, and who leads a cabinet of ministers. The National Parliament is a single-chamber legislature, comprising 111 members elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term. They are elected in single-member district-level constituencies using preferential voting, in which voters are given three preferences and the winning candidate is the one who receives over 50% of preference votes. Although Papua New Guinea is not a…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
Papua New Guinea
The Independent State of Papua New Guinea is part of a SW Pacific island region called Melanesia 160km [100mi] NE of Australia that includes the E part of New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, the Trobriand and D'Entrecasteaux Islands, the Louisiade Archipelago and the…
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From Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices
Papua New Guinea
POPULATION 7,059,653 CHRISTIAN 94.8 percent ETHNORELIGIONIST 3.4 percent BAHÁ’Í 0.9 percent BUDDHIST 0.2 percent OTHER 0.2 percent NONAFFLIATED 0.5 percent Introduction A predominantly Christian nation, Papua New Guinea comprises a number of islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The majority of the…
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From Historical Dictionary of Australia
Papua New Guinea, Australia's nearest neighbor, is the name of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea. The western half was colonized by the Dutch in 1828, whose explorers had proved it to be an island by 1597, but the eastern half remained unclaimed. In 1883, the colonial government of…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Papua New Guinea
Island country, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Area: 178,704 sq mi (462,840 sq km). Population: (2016 est.) 8,301,000. Capital: Port Moresby . Most of the people are Papuan (four-fifths) and Melanesian; ethnic minorities are Polynesian, Chinese, and European. Languages: English, Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
National name Gau Hedinarai ai Papua-Matamata Guinea/Independent State of Papua New Guinea Area 462,840 sq km/178,702 sq mi Capital Port Moresby (on East New Guinea) Language Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Moyu (all official); pidgin English, over 800 indigenous languages Religion Christian 99% (of which…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
This Commonwealth state in the southwest Pacific comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and part of the Solomon Islands. The island of New Guinea is three times the size of the United Kingdom and lies to the north of the Australian continent between the…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Country in the southwest Pacific, comprising the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and part of the Solomon Islands. Government Papua New Guinea is a multiparty democracy, with a prime ministerial political executive. Under the 1975 constitution, the British monarch…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(păp'ōӘ, –yōӘ, gĭn'ē), officially Independent State of Papua New Guinea, independent Commonwealth nation (2015 est. pop. 6,672,000), 183,540 sq mi (475,369 sq km), SW Pacific. It encompasses the eastern half of the island of New Guinea , as well as the Bismarck Archipelago , the Trobriand Islands , …
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From Chambers Dictionary of World History
Papua New Guinea
An independent island group in the south-west Pacific Ocean. Possibly inhabited by South-East Asians who came to Papua New Guinea via Indonesia many thousands of years ago, it was visited by the Portuguese and the Spanish in the 16c before being colonized by the British and Dutch in the late 18c. In…
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From Financial Times World Desk Reference
Papua New Guinea
Introduction Official name: Independent State of Papua New Guinea Capital: Port Moresby Population: 6.73 million Currency: Kina Official language: English Date of independence, or formation date: 1975 Date when current borders were established: 1975 National day: Sept 16 Vehicle country identifying…
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