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Description 1884–1888: Flag of British New Guinea: A blue British ensign with a white disc in the fly featuring the Tudor Crown over the initials "N.G.". 1888–1906: Flag of British New Guinea: A blue British ensign with a white disc in the fly featuring the Tudor Crown over the initials "B.N.G.". 1921–1971: Flag of the Territory of New Guinea
Papua New Guinea; Use: National flag, civil and state ensign: Proportion: 3:4: Adopted: 1 July 1971; 53 years ago (): Design: Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with the soaring Raggiana bird-of-paradise and the lower triangle is black with the Southern Cross of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star.
Flag Date Use Description 1876–present Flag of New South Wales: A St George's Cross with four gold stars and a lion in the fly of a British blue ensign. [2] 1876–present [a] Flag of Queensland: A light blue Maltese cross with a crown on a white background in the fly of a British blue ensign. [3] 1904–present Flag of South Australia
In 1971, when Karike was aged 15, her school, the Catholic Mission School at Yule Island in Central Province [3] [4] was visited by the Selection Committee on Constitutional Development on 12 February. [3] [5] The committee already had a preliminary design for a new flag for Papua New Guinea, which had been designed by an Australian artist, Hal ...
English: Flag of Manus, province of Papua New Guinea. Tok Pisin: Plak bilong Manus, ... Description=Papua New Guinean Provincial Flag |Source=self-made ...
For administrative purposes, Papua New Guinea is divided into administrative divisions called provinces. There are 22 provincial-level divisions, which include 20 provinces, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, and the National Capital District of Port Moresby.
Papua New Guinea [note 1] [13] [note 2] is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east.
Papua New Guinea is divided into four regions, which are its broadest administrative divisions of Papua New Guinea.While the 22 provincial-level divisions are the primary administrative divisions of PNG, the regions are quite significant in daily life, as they are often the basis for organisation of government services (such as police), corporate operations, sporting competitions, and even the ...