The most linguistically diverse country on Earth, with over 840 living languages.
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Papua New Guinea
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Oceania
ยท Melanesia
0Population
462.84Kkmยฒ of land
$2.83KGDP / person
Port MoresbyCapital
- ISO codes
- PG ยท PNG
- Density
- 19 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin
- Currency
- Papua New Guinean kina (PGK)
- Dial code
- +675
- Internet domain
- .pg
- Time zones
- 2
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 5.6950ยฐ S, 143.9100ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Papua New Guinean
- UN region
- Melanesia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $24.83B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How Papua New Guinea stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
99th
of 242 ยท 0.11% of world population
Land area
56th
of 242 ยท 0.31% of world land
GDP per person
176th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
192nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Papua New Guinea
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 8,776,109 people, the 99th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.11 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 462,840 kmยฒ, making it the 56th largest country here - about 11.2 times the size of Switzerland.
Population density is about 19 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Port Moresby, at 9.46ยฐ S, 147.19ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 283,733.
Shares land borders with 1 country: Indonesia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 2 time zones, from Pacific/Bougainville to Pacific/Port Moresby.
The currency is the Papua New Guinean kina (PGK, symbol K).
Has 3 official languages: English, Hiri Motu and Tok Pisin.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Pacific/Bougainville
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UTC+11:00
Pacific/Port Moresby
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UTC+10:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Port Moresby
Central
9.4647ยฐ S, 147.1925ยฐ E
283.73K
2
Lae
Morobe
6.7330ยฐ S, 146.9900ยฐ E
131.05K
3
Mt. Hagen
Western Highlands
5.8632ยฐ S, 144.2168ยฐ E
59.06K
4
Goroka
Eastern Highlands
6.0833ยฐ S, 145.3855ยฐ E
39.7K
5
Rabaul
East New Britain
4.2055ยฐ S, 152.1434ยฐ E
8.07K
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with Papua New Guinea.