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Map of Papua New Guinea Share of forest area in total land area, top countries (2021). Papua New Guinea has the eighth highest percentage of forest cover in the world. At 462,840 km 2 (178,704 sq mi), Papua New Guinea is the world's 54th-largest country and the third-largest island country. [14]
New Guinea's topography. Papua New Guinea has a total area of 462,840 km 2 (178,700 sq mi), of which 452,860 km 2 (174,850 sq mi) is land and 9,980 km 2 (3,850 sq mi) is water. This makes it the 3rd largest island country in the world. [1] Its coastline is 5,152 km (3,201 mi) long. [citation needed]
Papua New Guinea: Largest city: Port Moresby: Area • Total. 202,542 km 2 (78,202 sq mi) Population
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New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, fossilized Nugini, [a] or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of 785,753 km 2 (303,381 sq mi).
Port Moresby (/ ˈ m ɔːr z b i /; Tok Pisin: Pot Mosbi), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea.It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New Zealand.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported on Saturday.
This list of highest mountains of New Guinea shows all mountains on the island of New Guinea that are at least 3,750 m (12,300 ft) high and have a topographic prominence of 500 m (1,600 ft) or more. These c. 50 peaks are also the highest mountains of Australasia and the continent of Australia , where, outside New Guinea, the highest mountain is ...