island country in the southwest Pacific Ocean
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papua new guinea
n : a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of new guinea [syn: papua new guinea, independent state of papua new guinea ]
Noun
1. a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea
(synonym) Independent State of Papua New Guinea
(hypernym) country, state, land
(part-holonym) New Guinea, Papua
(part-meronym) Bismarck Archipelago
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Background
The eastern half of the island of New Guinea - second largest in the world - was divided between Germany (north) and the UK (south) in 1885. The latter area was transferred to Australia in 1902, which occupied the northern portion during World War I and continued to administer the combined areas until independence in 1975. A nine-year secessionist revolt on the island of Bougainville ended in 1997 after claiming some 20,000 lives.
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PG (ISO 3166),
PNG (ISO 3166),
PP (FIPS 10-4)
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Papua New Guinea (PNG; Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is a part of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua). It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in a region defined since the early 19th century as Melanesia. The capital is Port Moresby.
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