Papua New Guinea
Papua-Neuguinea
Papua New Guinea is in Oceania. Here you’ll find flag, capital and neighbours to learn.
Borders: Indonesia
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Region
- Oceania
- Subregion
- Melanesien
- Area
- 462,840 km²
- Population
- 10,762,817
- Languages
- English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin
- Neighbours
- Indonesia
Did you know?
- Language
Over 800 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea — more than in any other country in the world.
- History
Large parts of the highlands were only reached by outsiders in the 1930s; hundreds of thousands of people lived there with no contact with the outside world.
- Nature
Birds of paradise, with their spectacular courtship displays, occur almost exclusively here; one adorns the national flag.
- Geography
Papua New Guinea shares the island of New Guinea with Indonesia — it is the world’s second-largest island.