Papua New Guinea
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
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Motto: "Unity in diversity"
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Location of Papua New Guinea (green)
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| Capital and largest city |
Port Moresby 9°30′S 147°07′E / 9.500°S 147.117°E |
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| Official languages | |||||
| Demonym | Papua New Guinean | ||||
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
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• Monarch
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Elizabeth II | ||||
| Michael Ogio | |||||
| Peter O'Neill | |||||
| Legislature | National Parliament | ||||
| Independence from Australia | |||||
| 1 July 1949 | |||||
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• Declared and recognised
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16 September 1975 | ||||
| Area | |||||
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• Total
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462,840 km2 (178,700 sq mi) (56th) | ||||
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• Water (%)
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2 | ||||
| Population | |||||
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• 2011 census preliminary estimate
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7,059,653 (102nd) | ||||
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• 2000 census
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5,190,783 | ||||
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• Density
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15/km2 (38.8/sq mi) (201st) | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2016 estimate | ||||
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• Total
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$28.022 billion (139th) | ||||
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• Per capita
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$3,542 | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate | ||||
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• Total
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$19.915 billion (115th) | ||||
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• Per capita
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$2,517 | ||||
| Gini (1996) | 50.9 high |
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| HDI (2014) |
 0.505low · 158th |
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| Currency | Papua New Guinean kina (PGK) | ||||
| Time zone | AEST (UTC+10, +11) | ||||
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(UTCUTC) | ||||
| Drives on the | left | ||||
| Calling code | +675 | ||||
| ISO 3166 code | PG | ||||
| Internet TLD | .pg | ||||
Coordinates: 6°S 147°E / 6°S 147°E
Papua New Guinea (PNG; /ˈpæpuə njuː ˈɡɪniː, ˈpɑː-, -pju-/, US /ˈpæpjuə, pɑːˈpuːə/;Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.
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