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New Guinea located in relation to Melanesia. Papua New Guinea map of Köppen climate classification. New Guinea is an island to the north of the Australian mainland, south of the equator. It is isolated by the Arafura Sea to the west, and the Torres Strait and Coral Sea to the east.
This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, ... Japan: 124,997,578: ... Papua New Guinea: 10,203,169:
Papua New Guinea, [note 1] officially ... was one of the major military campaigns and conflicts between Japan and the Allies. ... suggested a new population estimate ...
This is a list of Oceanian countries and dependencies by population in Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, ... Western New Guinea : 10.7%: 5,628,545:
New Guinea portal. v. t. e. The Japanese occupation of New Guinea was the military occupation of the island of New Guinea by the Empire of Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II when Japanese forces captured the city of Rabaul. [1]
Papuans, Japanese. Japanese settlement in the Territory of Papua and German New Guinea (in what now constitutes modern-day Papua New Guinea) dates back to the early 20th century when migrants from Japan established copra plantations and trading businesses in the islands, specifically Rabaul. The Japanese community remained small throughout the ...
The History of Western New Guinea refers to the history of the Indonesian western half of the island of New Guinea and other smaller islands to its west. This region is also known as Papua and was previously named Irian Jaya. The eastern half of the island is Papua New Guinea. Human habitation is estimated to have begun between 42,000 and ...
Population • 1912 estimate . 600,000: ... German New Guinea ... while Japan occupied most of the remaining German possessions in the Pacific.