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Papua New Guinea has been a member of the Forum of Small States (FOSS) since the group's founding in 1992. [73] Papua New Guinea supported Indonesia's control of Western New Guinea, [74] the focus of the Papua conflict where numerous human rights violations have reportedly been committed by the Indonesian security forces. [75] [76] [77]
The largest city in Melanesia is Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea with about 318,000 people, mostly of Melanesian ancestry. [30] The western half of New Guinea is part of Indonesia and is predominantly inhabited by indigenous Papuans, with a significant minority of settlers from other parts of Indonesia.
Papua New Guinea's Western Province averages one person per square kilometer (3 per sq. mi.). The Simbu Province in the New Guinea highlands averages 20 persons per square kilometer (52 persons/sq mi) and has areas containing up to 200 people farming a square kilometer of land. The highlands have 40% of the population.
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, [2] 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 Guinean New Zealanders (Tok Pisin: pipol bilong Papua Niugini long Niu Zilen) are Papua New Guineans, or people of Papua New Guinean descent, who are also citizens and residents of New Zealand. Papua New Guinea was administered by Australia until 1975, formally divided into the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea (a ...
New Zealand people of Papua New Guinean descent (1 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 10 March 2024, at 13:09 (UTC). Text is ...
Papua New Guinean people of European descent (7 C) O. Papua New Guinean people of Oceanian descent (2 C) This page was last edited on 21 February 2024, at 11: ...
Ethnic groups in Papua New Guinea (3 C, 47 P) ... Papua New Guinean people by descent (4 C) Pages in category "Demographics of Papua New Guinea"