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  2. Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of islands of Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of islands in Papua New Guinea, as to most of its 600 main islands, by province listed NW to SE. [ 1 ] Numbered provinces in Papua New Guinea, referred to in the text

  4. New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    The island of New Guinea is divided politically into roughly equal halves across a north–south line: The western portion of the island located west of 141°E longitude (except for a small section of territory to the east of the Fly River which belongs to Papua New Guinea) was formerly a Dutch colony, part of the Dutch East Indies.

  5. Bougainville Island - Wikipedia

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    Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil) [1] is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea. Its land area is 9,300 km 2 (3,600 sq mi). The highest point is Mount Balbi , on the main island, at 2,715 m (8,907 ft).

  6. Papua New Guinea landslide buried more than 2,000 people ...

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    The Pacific island nation's last credible census was in 2000 and many people live in isolated mountain villages. Papua New Guinea landslide buried more than 2,000 people, government says Skip to ...

  7. Geography of Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    Papua New Guinea has one land border—that which divides the island of New Guinea. Across the 820 km (509 mi) border is the Indonesian provinces of Papua , Highland Papua and South Papua . Papua New Guinea's border with Indonesia is not straight; the border loops slightly to the west along the Fly River in the south-central part of New Guinea ...

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