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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.
The economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is largely underdeveloped with the vast majority of the population living below the poverty line. [20] However, according to the Asian Development Bank its GDP is expected to grow 3.4% in 2022 and 4.6% in 2023. [ 21 ]
Papua New Guinea has the largest fishery zone in the South Pacific with a zone of 2.4 million square kilometers. [9] [13] Papua New Guinea harvests and exports 14% of the worlds tuna supply, owing in part to agreements with the EU that allow duty free exports. [13] Tuna accounts for 99% of Papua New Guinea's total fish related exports. [13]
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, [1] are Melanesians.There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Archipelago perhaps 50,000 years ago when New Guinea and Australia were a single landmass called Sahul and, much later, a wave of Austronesian ...
Papua New Guinea: A political history (1979) Knauft, Bruce M. South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic (1993) excerpt and text search; McCosker, Anne. Masked Eden: A History of the Australians in New Guinea (1998) Waiko. John. Short History of Papua New Guinea (1993) Waiko, John Dademo. Papua New Guinea: A History of Our ...
He met his Papua New Guinean counterpart in Bali in December 2007 to resume normal diplomatic relations. [13] In March 2008, Rudd visited Papua New Guinea. [4] In 2013, under Prime Ministers Julia Gillard (Australia) and Peter O'Neill (PNG), the two nations signed the Joint Declaration for a New Papua New Guinea-Australia Partnership. [14]
The cuisine of Papua New Guinea are the traditional varied foods found in the eastern part of the New Guinea island. Approximately 80% of the population is reliant on subsistence agriculture , so a large percentage of food energy and protein consumed in Papua New Guinea is produced locally, while the balance is imported.
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