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397 relations: Aboriginal title, Admiralty Islands, Africa, Agence France-Presse, Air Niugini, Aitape, Al Jazeera Arabic, Alienated land, Allied occupation of German New Guinea, Allies of World War II, Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea, Animism, Antarctic flora, Antarctica, António Galvão, Anti-Chinese sentiment, Araucaria, ASEAN, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Australasian realm, Australia, Australia (continent), Australian rules football in Papua New Guinea, Austronesian languages, Austronesian peoples, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Baháʼí Faith, Baháʼí House of Worship, Baptists, Basketball, BBC News, Bird-of-paradise, Black magic, Bob Dadae, Boigu Island (Queensland), Bougainville conflict, Bougainville Island, Bride price, Bronisław Malinowski, Bryan Jared Kramer, Burundi, Carol Kidu, Cassowary, Catholic Church, Central Intelligence Agency, Central Powers, Central Province (Papua New Guinea), Charles III, ChildFund, Chimbu Province, ... Expand index (347 more) »
- 1975 establishments in Papua New Guinea
- Countries in Australasia
- Countries in Melanesia
- Countries in Oceania
- New Guinea
Aboriginal title
Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty to that land by another colonising state.
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Admiralty Islands
The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of 40 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Air Niugini
Air Niugini Limited is the flag carrier of Papua New Guinea, based in Air Niugini House on the site of Port Moresby International Airport, Port Moresby.
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Aitape
Aitape is a small town of about 18,000 people on the north coast of Papua New Guinea in the Sandaun Province.
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Al Jazeera Arabic
Al Jazeera Arabic (الجزيرة) is a Qatari state-owned Arabic-language news television network.
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Alienated land
Alienated land is land which has been acquired from customary landowners by the government, either for its own use or for private development.
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Allied occupation of German New Guinea
The Allied occupation of German New Guinea was the takeover of the Pacific colony of German New Guinea in September – November 1914 by an expeditionary force from Australia, called the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force.
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Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea is a province of the Anglican Communion.
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Animism
Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
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Antarctic flora
Antarctic flora are a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
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António Galvão
António Galvão (c. 1490–1557), also known as Antonio Galvano, was a Portuguese soldier, chronicler and administrator in the Maluku islands, and a Renaissance historian who was the first person to present a comprehensive report of the leading voyages and explorers up to 1550 by Portuguese explorers and those of other nationalities.
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Anti-Chinese sentiment
Anti-Chinese sentiment (also referred to as Sinophobia) is an irrational fear or dislike of China, Chinese people and/or Chinese culture.
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Araucaria
Araucaria (original pronunciation) is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae.
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ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
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Australasian realm
The Australasian realm is one of eight biogeographic realms that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. Papua New Guinea and Australia are countries in Australasia, countries in Oceania, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
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Australia (continent)
The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, Oceania, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.
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Australian rules football in Papua New Guinea
Australian rules football in Papua New Guinea (PNG) (typically referred to as "rules", "rules football", "footy", or less commonly "Aussie rules", "AFL rules", "AFL", or "football") is a developing team sport which was initially introduced by Australian servicemen during World War II.
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Austronesian languages
The Austronesian languages are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples).
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Austronesian peoples
The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Austronesian languages.
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Autonomous Region of Bougainville
Bougainville (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil), officially the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Tok Pisin: Otonomos Region bilong Bogenvil), is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea.
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Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
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Baháʼí House of Worship
A Baháʼí House of Worship or Baháʼí temple is a place of worship of the Baháʼí Faith.
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Baptists
Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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Bird-of-paradise
The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes.
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Black magic
Black magic has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes.
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Bob Dadae
Sir Bob Bofeng Dadae (born 8 March 1961) is a Papua New Guinean politician who has served as the tenth and current Governor-General of Papua New Guinea since 2017.
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Boigu Island (Queensland)
Boigu Island (also known as Malu Kiyay or Malu Kiwai) is the most northerly inhabited island of Queensland and of Australia.
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Bougainville conflict
The Bougainville conflict, also known as the Bougainville Civil War, was a multi-layered armed conflict fought from 1988 to 1998 in the North Solomons Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) between PNG and the secessionist forces of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), and between the BRA and other armed groups on Bougainville.
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Bougainville Island
Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil) is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea and Bougainville Island are 1975 establishments in Papua New Guinea.
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Bride price
Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.
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Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
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Bryan Jared Kramer
Bryan Jared Kramer is a Papua New Guinea politician and Member of the 10th and 11th Parliament of Papua New Guinea.
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Burundi
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa. Papua New Guinea and Burundi are countries and territories where English is an official language and member states of the United Nations.
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Carol Kidu
Dame Carol Anne Kidu (Millwater; born 10 October 1948), also known as Carol, Lady Kidu, is an Australian-born Papua New Guinean politician.
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Cassowary
Cassowaries (muruk, kasuari, Biak: man suar, Papuan: kasu weri) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Central Powers
The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires,Mittelmächte; Központi hatalmak; İttıfâq Devletleri, Bağlaşma Devletleri; translit were one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I (1914–1918).
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Central Province (Papua New Guinea)
Central Province is a province in Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast of the country.
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Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.
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ChildFund
ChildFund, also known an ChildFund International, and formerly known as Christian Children's Fund, is a child-focused international development organization that provides assistance to children facing poverty and other challenges in 24 countries, including the United States.
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Chimbu Province
Chimbu, more frequently spelled Simbu, is a province in the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea.
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Chinese people in Papua New Guinea
Chinese people in Papua New Guinea included,, only about 1,000 of the "old Chinese"—locally born descendants of late 19th- and early 20th-century immigrants—remain in the country; most have moved to Australia.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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CNA (TV network)
CNA (stylised as cna; an initialism derived from the previous name, Channel NewsAsia) is a Singaporean multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate.
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Cocoa bean
The cocoa bean, also known simply as cocoa or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted.
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Coconut oil
alt.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.
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Commonwealth realm
A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth that has Charles III as its monarch and ceremonial head of state. Papua New Guinea and Commonwealth realm are Commonwealth realms.
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Conifer
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.
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Constituent assembly
A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution.
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Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
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Continental shelf
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.
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Copra
Copra (from) is the dried, white flesh of the coconut from which coconut oil is extracted.
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Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
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Customary land
Customary land is land held under customary land tenure and the enjoyment of some use of land that arises through customary, unwritten practice rather than through written codified law.
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Dark skin
Dark skin is a type of human skin color that is rich in melanin pigments.
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Dauan Island
Dauan Island is an island in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia; it is also known as Cornwallis Island.
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Davis Steven
Davis Madava Steven is a Papua New Guinea politician.
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Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, died on 8 September 2022 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, at the age of 96.
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Demographics of Papua New Guinea
The indigenous population of Papua New Guinea is one of the most heterogeneous in the world.
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Denisovan
The Denisovans or Denisova hominins) are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic, and lived, based on current evidence, from 285 to 25 thousand years ago.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Districts of Papua New Guinea
This page is a list of districts of Papua New Guinea.
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Divine Word University
Divine Word University is a national Catholic university in Papua New Guinea.
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Dominion
A dominion was any of several largely self-governing countries of the British Empire.
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Donald Cleland
Brigadier Sir Donald Mackinnon Cleland, (28 June 1901 – 27 August 1975) was an Australian soldier and administrator.
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Dowry
A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
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Dutch disease
In economics, Dutch disease is the apparent causal relationship between the increase in the economic development of a specific sector (for example natural resources) and a decline in other sectors (like the manufacturing sector or agriculture).
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East New Britain Province
East New Britain is a province of Papua New Guinea, consisting of the north-eastern part of the island of New Britain and the Duke of York Islands.
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East Sepik Province
East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea.
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Eastern Highlands Province
Eastern Highlands is a highlands province of Papua New Guinea.
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Eastern Indonesia
Eastern Indonesia (or East Indonesia) is one of the two main geographical regions of Indonesia, the other being Western Indonesia.
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Economy of Papua New Guinea
The economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is largely underdeveloped with the vast majority of the population living below the poverty line.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.
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Elaeis guineensis
Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm commonly just called oil palm but also sometimes African oil palm or macaw-fat.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.
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Emblem of Papua New Guinea
The national emblem of Papua New Guinea consists of a bird-of-paradise over a traditional spear and a kundu drum.
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Eneos Holdings
is a Japanese global petroleum and metals conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Enga language
Enga is a language of the East New Guinea Highlands spoken by a quarter-million people in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Enga Province
Enga is one of the provinces in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
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Equator
The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
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Eurasian Plate
The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.
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Evangelical Alliance
The Evangelical Alliance (EA) is a UK organisation of evangelical individuals, organisations, and churches, which is itself a member of the World Evangelical Alliance.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea is a Protestant church denomination located in Papua New Guinea that professes the Lutheran branch of the Christian faith.
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Exclusive economic zone
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
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Fee simple
In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership.
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First-past-the-post voting
First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.
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Flag carrier
A flag carrier is a transport company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given sovereign state, enjoys preferential rights or privileges accorded by the government for international operations.
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Fly River
The Fly River is the third longest river on the island of New Guinea, after the Sepik River and Mamberamo River, with a total length of. It is the largest by volume of discharge in Oceania, the largest in the world without a single dam in its catchment, and overall the 20th-largest primary river in the world by discharge volume.
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Fold and thrust belt
A fold and thrust belt (FTB) is a series of mountainous foothills adjacent to an orogenic belt, which forms due to contractional tectonics.
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Forest Landscape Integrity Index
The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification.
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Forum of Small States
The Forum of Small States (FOSS) is a voluntary, informal and non-ideological grouping of countries at the United Nations, founded in 1992 by Singapore.
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Gang rape
In scholarly literature and criminology, gang rape, also called serial gang rape, party rape, group rape, or multiple perpetrator rape,Ullman, S. E. (2013).
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Gazelle Peninsula
The Gazelle Peninsula is a large peninsula in northeastern East New Britain, Papua New Guinea located on the island of New Britain within the Bismarck Archipelago, situated in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Geography of Papua New Guinea
The geography of Papua New Guinea describes the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, the islands of New Ireland, New Britain and Bougainville, and smaller nearby islands.
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German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
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German New Guinea
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) consisted of the northeastern part of the island of New Guinea and several nearby island groups and was the first part of the German colonial empire.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
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Goaribari Island
Goaribari is an island in southern Papua New Guinea.
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God Save the King
"God Save the King" (alternatively "God Save the Queen" when the British monarch is female) is the national anthem of the United Kingdom and the royal anthem of each of the British Crown Dependencies, one of two national anthems of New Zealand, and the royal anthem of most Commonwealth realms.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
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Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975.
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Governor-General of Papua New Guinea
The governor-general of Papua New Guinea is the representative of the Papua New Guinean monarch, currently King Charles III, in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea and governor-General of Papua New Guinea are 1975 establishments in Papua New Guinea.
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Guinea (region)
Guinea is a traditional name for the region of the coast of West Africa which lies along the Gulf of Guinea.
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Gulf of Papua
The Gulf of Papua is located in the southern coast region of New Guinea.
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Gulf Province
Gulf Province is a province of Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast.
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Harry Moore Dauncey
Rev.
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Headhunting
Headhunting is the practice of hunting a human and collecting the severed head after killing the victim, although sometimes more portable body parts (such as ear, nose, or scalp) are taken instead as trophies.
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Hela Province
Hela is a province of Papua New Guinea.
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Highland
Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
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Hiri Motu
Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of its capital city, Port Moresby.
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Homogeneity and heterogeneity
Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity of a substance, process or image.
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House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea
The House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea was the legislature of the territory of Papua and New Guinea from 1964 to 1972.
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Huli language
Huli is a Tari language spoken by the Huli people of the Hela Province of Papua New Guinea.
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Human cannibalism
Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.
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Human Rights Measurement Initiative
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) is a non-profit organisation primarily housed in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Huon Peninsula
Huon Peninsula is a large rugged peninsula on the island of New Guinea in Morobe Province, eastern Papua New Guinea.
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Ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia. Papua New Guinea and India are countries and territories where English is an official language, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
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Indigenous people of New Guinea
The indigenous peoples of Western New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians.
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Indigenous peoples
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.
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Indo-Australian Plate
The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and the surrounding ocean and extends north-west to include the Indian subcontinent and the adjacent waters. Papua New Guinea and Indo-Australian Plate are new Guinea.
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Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Papua New Guinea and Indonesia are countries in Melanesia, island countries, maritime Southeast Asia and member states of the United Nations.
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Instant-runoff voting
Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as ranked-choice voting or the alternative vote (AV), combines ranked voting (in which voters rank candidates rather than choosing only a single preferred candidate) together with a system for choosing winners from these rankings by repeatedly eliminating the candidate with the fewest first-place votes and reassigning their votes until only one candidate is left.
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Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans
Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans occurred during the Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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InterOil
Prior to its acquisition by Exxon, InterOil Corporation was an oil and gas company with a primary focus on Papua New Guinea.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
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Islam in Papua New Guinea
Islam in Papua New Guinea is a minority religion in the predominantly Christian country, with around 10,000 followers as of 2021.
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James Marape
James Marape (born 24 April 1971) is a Papua New Guinean politician who has served as the prime minister of Papua New Guinea since May 2019.
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James Tanis
James Tanis (born 1965?, Radio Australia, 30 December 2008) is a politician in Papua New Guinea who was elected President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in 2008 following the death of Joseph Kabui while in office, serving the remainder of the term from 2009 to 2010.
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Jiwaka Province
Jiwaka is a province of Papua New Guinea.
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John Tabinaman
John Tabinaman (c. 1952 – 7 November 2021) was the Acting President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea, from 7 June 2008 to 6 January 2009.
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Jorge de Menezes
Jorge de Menezes (c. 1498 – 1537) was a Portuguese explorer.
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Joseph Kabui
Joseph Canisius Kabui (1954 – 7 June 2008) was a secessionist leader and the first President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, from 2005 to 2008.
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Kangaroo
Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").
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Karuka
The karuka (Pandanus julianettii, also called karuka nut and Pandanus nut) is a species of tree in the screwpine family (Pandanaceae) and an important regional food crop in New Guinea.
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Kikori River
The Kikori River is a major river in southern Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea.
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Kuk Swamp
Kuk Swamp is an archaeological site in Papua New Guinea, that lies in the Wahgi Valley of the highlands.
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L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle
The L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle (SLR), also known by the initial Canadian designation C1, or in the U.S. as the "inch pattern" FAL, is a British version of the Belgian FN FAL battle rifle.
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Lae
Lae(German: Preußen-Reede, later Lehe) is the capital of Morobe Province and is the second-largest city in Papua New Guinea.
Land bridge
In biogeography, a land bridge is an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise separate areas, over which animals and plants are able to cross and colonize new lands.
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Landing craft
Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault.
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Landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.
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Languages of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, a sovereign state in Oceania, is the most linguistically diverse country in the world.
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Law of Papua New Guinea
The law of Papua New Guinea consists of the Constitution, ordinary statutes enacted by Parliament or adopted at independence from overseas (together with their pendant regulations) and judge-made law.
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League of Nations
The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
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League of Nations mandate
A League of Nations mandate represented a legal status under international law for specific territories following World War I, involving the transfer of control from one nation to another.
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Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea
The Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea was a legislative body in Papua New Guinea between 1951 and 1963.
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Leo Dion
Chief Sir Leo Dion GCL KBE CMG QPM (born 1950) is a Papua New Guinean politician.
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LGBT rights in Papua New Guinea
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Papua New Guinea face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
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Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
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Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.
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List of Christian denominations
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity, identified by traits such as a name, organization and doctrine.
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area.
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List of island countries
This is a list of island countries. Papua New Guinea and list of island countries are island countries.
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List of rivers of Papua New Guinea
This is a list of rivers of Papua New Guinea.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
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LNG carrier
An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has 326 local-level governments (LLGs) comprising 6,112 wards as of 2018.
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Louisiade Archipelago
The Louisiade Archipelago is a string of ten larger volcanic islands frequently fringed by coral reefs, and 90 smaller coral islands in Papua New Guinea.
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M16 rifle
The M16 rifle (officially designated Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16) is a family of assault rifles adapted from the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle for the United States military.
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Madang
Madang (old German name: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen) is the capital of Madang Province and is a town with a population of 27,420 (in 2005) on the north coast of Papua New Guinea.
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Madang Province
Madang is a province of Papua New Guinea.
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Maluku Islands
The Maluku Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Maluku) or the Moluccas are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Papua New Guinea and Maluku Islands are maritime Southeast Asia.
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Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
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Manus Island
Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Admiralty Islands.
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Manus Province
Manus Province is the smallest province in Papua New Guinea in terms of both land area and population, with a land area of, but with more than of water, and the total population is 60,485 (2011 census).
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Markham River
The Markham River is a river in eastern Papua New Guinea.
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Marsupial
Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia.
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Medium (website)
Medium is an American online publishing platform developed by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012.
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Megadiverse countries
A megadiverse country is one of a group of nations that harbours the majority of Earth's species and high numbers of endemic species.
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Mekere Morauta
Sir Mekere Morauta (12 June 1946 – 19 December 2020) was a Papua New Guinean politician and economist who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea from 1999 to 2002.
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Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Melanesian Spearhead Group
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) is an intergovernmental organization, composed of the four Melanesian states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front of New Caledonia.
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Melpa language
Melpa (Medlpa, Mbowamb) is a Papuan language spoken by about 130,000 people predominantly in Mount Hagen and the surrounding district of Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Michael Somare
Sir Michael Thomas Somare (9 April 1936 – 25 February 2021) was a Papua New Guinean politician.
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Micronesians
The Micronesians or Micronesian peoples are various closely related ethnic groups native to Micronesia, a region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean.
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Milne Bay Province
Milne Bay is a province of Papua New Guinea.
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Mineral Resources Development Company
Mineral Resources Development Company Limited (MRDC) was established in 1975 and is 100% owned by the Government of Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea and Mineral Resources Development Company are 1975 establishments in Papua New Guinea.
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Mining in Papua New Guinea
Mining in Papua New Guinea is an important part of the Papua New Guinea economy.
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Monarchy of Papua New Guinea
The monarchy of Papua New Guinea is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea and monarchy of Papua New Guinea are 1975 establishments in Papua New Guinea and Commonwealth realms.
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Morobe Province
Morobe Province is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea.
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Motion of no confidence
A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion of confidence and corresponding vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office.
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Mount Wilhelm
Mount Wilhelm (Wilhelmsberg) is the highest mountain in Papua New Guinea at.
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Musa River
The Musa is a river on the eastern side of the Papuan Peninsula, in Papua New Guinea.
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National Capital District (Papua New Guinea)
The National Capital District of Papua New Guinea is the incorporated area around Port Moresby, which is the capital of Papua New Guinea.
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National Executive Council of Papua New Guinea
The National Executive Council (NEC), also known as the Cabinet of Papua New Guinea functions as the policy and decision-making body of the executive branch within the government system of Papua New Guinea.
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National Parliament of Papua New Guinea
The National Parliament of Papua New Guinea is the unicameral national legislature in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea and national Parliament of Papua New Guinea are 1975 establishments in Papua New Guinea.
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National Statistical Office of Papua New Guinea
The National Statistical Office of Papua New Guinea is a national institute of Papua New Guinea, which is dedicated to collecting socio-economic data in the country.
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Natural gas in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has exported liquefied natural gas (LNG) since 2014.
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Neologism
In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.
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Netball in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Netball Federation was created in the 1960s.
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New Britain
New Britain (Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea.
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New Guinea
New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.
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New Guinea campaign
The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. Papua New Guinea and New Guinea campaign are new Guinea.
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New Guinea Highlands
The New Guinea Highlands, also known as the Central Range or Central Cordillera, is a long chain of mountain ranges on the island of New Guinea, including the island's tallest peak, Puncak Jaya, Indonesia,, the highest mountain in Oceania.
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New Guinea mangroves
The New Guinea mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that covers extensive areas of the coastline New Guinea, the large island in the western Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
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New Ireland (island)
New Ireland (Tok Pisin: Niu Ailan), or Latangai, is a large island in Papua New Guinea, approximately in area with 120,000 people.
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New Ireland Province
New Ireland Province, formerly New Mecklenburg (Neu-Mecklenburg), and Nova Hibernia, is the northeasternmost province of Papua New Guinea.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Papua New Guinea and New Zealand are countries and territories where English is an official language, countries in Australasia, countries in Oceania, island countries, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
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Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
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Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests
The Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of northern New Guinea.
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Nothofagus
Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.
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O Arise, All You Sons
"O Arise, All You Sons" is the national anthem of Papua New Guinea.
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Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
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Oil Search
Oil Search was the largest oil and gas exploration and development company incorporated in Papua New Guinea, which operated all of the country's oilfields.
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Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS, French: Organisation des États d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique) is a group of countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that was created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975.
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Oro Province
Oro Province, formerly (and officially still) Northern Province, is a coastal province in the Southern Region of Papua New Guinea.
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Outline of Papua New Guinea
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Papua New Guinea: The Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a sovereign island nation of Oceania comprising the eastern half of the Island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands in the western South Pacific Ocean.
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Overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
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Pacific Adventist University
Pacific Adventist University (PAU) is a tertiary institution located 21 kilometres (30 minutes) outside Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and operated by the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Pacific Community
The Pacific Community (PC), formerly the South Pacific Commission (SPC), is an international development organisation governed by 27 members, including 22 Pacific island countries and territories around the Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Islands Forum
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is an inter-governmental organization that aims to enhance cooperation among countries and territories of Oceania, including formation of a trade bloc and regional peacekeeping operations.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Palm oil
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms.
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Pangu Pati
The Pangu Pati (Pangu Party), officially Papua na Niugini Yunion Pati (Papua and New Guinea Union Party), is a nationalist and developmentalist political party on the centre-left in Papua New Guinea.
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Papua and New Guinea Act 1949
The Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 was an Act passed by the Parliament of Australia.
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Papua conflict
The Papua conflict (Indonesian: Konflik Papua) is an ongoing conflict in Western New Guinea (Papua) between Indonesia and the Free Papua Movement (Organisasi Papua Merdeka, OPM).
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Papua New Guinea Council of Churches
The Papua New Guinea Council of Churches (PNGCC) is a Christian ecumenical council in Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea Defence Force
The Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) is the military organisation responsible for the defence of Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975
The Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975 was an Act passed by the Parliament of Australia.
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Papua New Guinea national Australian rules football team
The Papua New Guinea national Australian rules football team (nicknamed the Mosquitos (Moskitos) and for sponsorship purposes, the Telikom PNG Mosquitos) represents Papua New Guinea in the team sport of Australian rules football.
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Papua New Guinea national rugby league team
The Papua New Guinea national rugby league team represents Papua New Guinea in the sport of rugby league football.
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Papua New Guinea University of Natural Resources and Environment
Papua New Guinea University of Natural Resources and Environment (formerly known as the University of Vudal) is a university located in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea University of Technology
The Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) is a university located in Lae, Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea–Solomon Islands Maritime Boundary Treaty
The Papua New Guinea – Solomon Islands Maritime Boundary Treaty is a 1989 treaty in which Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands agreed to delimit a maritime boundary between the two states.
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Papua New Guinean kina
The Kina (ISO 4217 currency code: PGK, the currency symbol: K) is the currency of Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinean Sign Language
Papua New Guinean Sign Language (PNGSL) is a sign language originating from Papua New Guinea.
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Papuan languages
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor.
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Papuan Peninsula
The Papuan Peninsula, also known as the Bird's Tail Peninsula, is a large peninsula in Papua New Guinea, southeast of the city of Lae, that makes up the southeastern portion of the island of New Guinea.
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Past sea level
Global or eustatic sea level has fluctuated significantly over Earth's history.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Peter O'Neill
Peter Charles Paire O'Neill (born 13 February 1965) is a Papua New Guinean politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea from 2011 to 2019.
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Petromin Corporation
The Petromin Corporation is a Saudi Arabian lubricants and automotive services company, operating in lubricant oils including manufacturer, industrial, and automotive oils and lubricants, car servicing (Petromin Express), fuel retailing and car dealerships.
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Phalangeriformes
Phalangeriformes is a paraphyletic suborder of about 70 species of small to medium-sized arboreal marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi.
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Place name origins
In much of the "Old World" (approximately Africa, Asia and Europe) the names of many places cannot easily be interpreted or understood; they do not convey any apparent meaning in the modern language of the area.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Podocarpaceae
Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere conifers, known in English as podocarps, comprising about 156 species of evergreen trees and shrubs.
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Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions
The Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions or PIME (Pontificium Institutum pro Missionibus Exteris; Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere) is a society of secular priests and lay people who dedicate their lives to missionary activities in: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Thailand.
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Port Moresby
(Tok Pisin: Pot Mosbi), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea.
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Port Moresby International Airport
Port Moresby International Airport, also known as Jacksons International Airport, is an international airport located outside Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Portuguese maritime exploration
Portuguese maritime exploration resulted in the numerous territories and maritime routes recorded by the Portuguese as a result of their intensive maritime journeys during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
The prime minister of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea (Prai Minista bilong Papua Niugini) is Papua New Guinea's head of government, consequent on being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the National Parliament. Papua New Guinea and prime Minister of Papua New Guinea are 1975 establishments in Papua New Guinea.
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Protectorate
A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Provinces of Papua New Guinea
For administrative purposes, Papua New Guinea is divided into administrative divisions called provinces.
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Purari River
The Purari (also known as Puraari) is a river that originates in the south central highlands especially in Kandep District of Enga Province of Papua New Guinea, flowing though Gulf Province to the Gulf of Papua. The Purari has a drainage basin and is the third largest river in Papua New Guinea. The discharge varies through the year, averaging around – at the delta.
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Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.
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Ramu
The Ramu River is a major river in northern Papua New Guinea.
Redscar Bay
Redscar Bay is a bay to the northwest of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, extending for about between Cape Suckling and Redscar Head, also situated between Kekeni Rocks and Lagava Island.
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Regions of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is divided into four regions, which are its broadest administrative divisions of Papua New Guinea.
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Religion in Papua New Guinea
Religion in Papua New Guinea is dominated by various branches of Christianity, with traditional animism and ancestor worship often occurring less openly as another layer underneath or more openly side by side with Christianity.
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Religious syncretism
Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
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Ring of Fire
The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes.
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Rio Tinto (corporation)
Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world's second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP).
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Ritual warfare
Ritual warfare (sometimes called endemic warfare) is a state of continual or frequent warfare, such as is found in (but not limited to) some tribal societies.
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Royal Pacific Islands Regiment
The Royal Pacific Islands Regiment (RPIR) is an infantry regiment of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF).
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Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary
The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) is a national police force with jurisdiction throughout Papua New Guinea.
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Rufina Peter
Rufina Peter is a Papua New Guinean agricultural economist and politician.
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Rugby league in Papua New Guinea
Rugby league is a popular team sport in Papua New Guinea and the country's national sport.
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Rugby union in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is a tier three rugby union playing nation.
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Sahul
Sahul, also called Sahul-land, Meganesia, Papualand and Greater Australia, was a paleocontinent that encompassed the modern-day landmasses of mainland Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands.
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Saibai Island
Saibai Island, commonly called Saibai (Saybay, Saibai, Saibe), is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the Torres Strait of Queensland, Australia.
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Sandaun Province
Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland province of Papua New Guinea (also known as home of the sunset).
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Santos Limited
Santos Ltd. (South Australia Northern Territory Oil Search) is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company, with its headquarters in Adelaide, South Australia.
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Science and technology in Pacific Island countries
Pacific Island economies are mostly dependent on natural resources, with a tiny manufacturing sector and no heavy industry.
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Seashell
A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea.
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Seisin
Seisin (or seizin) denotes the legal possession of a feudal fiefdom or fee, that is to say an estate in land.
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Sepik
The Sepik is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and the second largest in Oceania by discharge volume after the Fly River. The majority of the river flows through the Papua New Guinea (PNG) provinces of Sandaun (formerly West Sepik) and East Sepik, with a small section flowing through the Indonesian province of Papua.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.
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Shell money
Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money, and was once commonly used in many parts of the world.
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Snow
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
Soccer in Papua New Guinea
The sport of soccer in the country of Papua New Guinea is run by the Papua New Guinea Football Association.
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Society of Mary (Marists)
The Society of Mary (Societas Mariæ), better known under the name Marist, is a religious congregation under pontifical right.
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Society of the Divine Word
The Society of the Divine Word (Societas Verbi Divini), abbreviated SVD and popularly called the Verbites or the Divine Word Missionaries, and sometimes the Steyler Missionaries, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men.
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Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, Islands of Destiny, Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is a country consisting of 21 major islands Guadalcanal, Malaita, Makira, Santa Isabel, Choiseul, New Georgia, Kolombangara, Rennell, Vella Lavella, Vangunu, Nendo, Maramasike, Rendova, Shortland, San Jorge, Banie, Ranongga, Pavuvu, Nggela Pile and Nggela Sule, Tetepare, (which are bigger in area than 100 square kilometres) and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia. Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands are countries and territories where English is an official language, countries in Melanesia, countries in Oceania, island countries, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, member states of the United Nations and small Island Developing States.
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Solomon Islands rain forests
The Solomon Islands rain forests are a terrestrial ecoregion covering the Solomon Islands archipelago.
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Sorcery (goetia)
Goetia is a type of European sorcery, often referred to as witchcraft, that has been transmitted through grimoires—books containing instructions for performing magical practices.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Southern Highlands Province
Southern Highlands is a province in Papua New Guinea.
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Sovereign wealth fund
A sovereign wealth fund (SWF), or sovereign investment fund is a state-owned investment fund that invests in real and financial assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, or in alternative investments such as private equity fund or hedge funds.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
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Spiritual Assembly
Spiritual Assembly is a term given by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to refer to elected councils that govern the Baháʼí Faith.
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Staple food
A staple food, food staple, or simply staple, is a food that is eaten often and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for an individual or a population group, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well.
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State of Origin series
The State of Origin series is an annual best-of-three rugby league series between two Australian state representative sides, the New South Wales Blues and the Queensland Maroons.
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Subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
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Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo (born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics.
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Sweet potato
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
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Taro
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a root vegetable.
Telephone numbers in Papua New Guinea
Telephone numbers in Papua New Guinea consist of mostly seven and some eight digit numbers (fixed), or eight digit numbers (mobile).
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Tenkile
The tenkile (Dendrolagus scottae), also known as Scott's tree-kangaroo, is a species of tree-kangaroo in the family Macropodidae.
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Territory of New Guinea
The Territory of New Guinea was an Australian-administered League of Nations and then United Nations trust territory on the island of New Guinea from 1914 until 1975.
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Territory of Papua
The Territory of Papua comprised the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea from 1883 to 1975.
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Territory of Papua and New Guinea
The Territory of Papua and New Guinea, officially the Administrative Union of the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea, was established by an administrative union between the Australian-administered territories of Papua and New Guinea (the latter being a United Nations trust territory administered by Australia) in 1949.
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Thalweg
In geography, hydrography, and fluvial geomorphology, a thalweg or talweg is the line or curve of lowest elevation within a valley or watercourse.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Lancet
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind.
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The National (Papua New Guinea)
The National is a weekday English language newspaper published in Papua New Guinea.
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The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization headquartered in London, England.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Throwim Way Leg
Throwim Way Leg is a 1998 book written by Australian scientist Tim Flannery.
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Tim Flannery
Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist and public scientist.
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Time in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is divided into two time zones, namely.
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Tok Pisin
Tok Pisin (Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh; Tok Pisin), often referred to by English speakers as New Guinea Pidgin or simply Pidgin, is a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea.
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Tolai people
The Tolai are the indigenous people of the Gazelle Peninsula and the Duke of York Islands of East New Britain in the New Guinea Islands region of Papua New Guinea.
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Toponymy
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.
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Torasi Estuary
Torasi Estuary is the estuary of Bensbach River, located at the southern end of the Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border.
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Torres Strait
The Torres Strait, also known as Zenadh Kes (ˈzen̪ad̪ kes), is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.
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Torres Strait Islands
The Torres Strait Islands are an archipelago of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea.
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TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and is one of the seven supermajor oil companies.
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Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands
The Trans Fly savanna and grasslands are a lowland ecoregion on the south coast of the island of New Guinea in both the Indonesian and Papua New Guinean sides of the island.
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Treaty of The Hague (1895)
The Treaty of Den Haag (also known as the Treaty of The Hague) was signed on 16 May 1895.
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Trobriand Islands
The Trobriand Islands are a archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea.
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Trobriand Islands rain forests
The Trobriand Islands rain forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southeastern Papua New Guinea.
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Tropical rainforest
Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south of the Equator.
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Tsunami
A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
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Turama River
The Turama River is a river of Papua New Guinea.
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Umboi Island
Umboi (also named Rooke or Siassi) is a volcanic island between the mainland of Papua New Guinea and the island of New Britain.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
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UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance.
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Unicameralism
Unicameralism (from uni- "one" + Latin camera "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one.
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UNICEF
UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
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United Church in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
The United Church in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands is a United church in the Methodist and the Reformed tradition.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. Papua New Guinea and United Kingdom are island countries, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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Unity in diversity
Unity in diversity is used as an expression of harmony and unity between dissimilar individuals or groups.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Goroka
University of Goroka (UOG) is a university in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.
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University of Michigan Press
The University of Michigan Press is a new university press (NUP) that is a part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library.
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University of Papua New Guinea
The University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) is a university located in Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea.
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Vanuatu
Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu (République de Vanuatu; Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country in Melanesia, located in the South Pacific Ocean. Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu are countries and territories where English is an official language, countries in Melanesia, countries in Oceania, island countries, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, member states of the United Nations and small Island Developing States.
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Veneration of the dead
The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased.
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Vice News
Vice News (stylized as VICE News) is Vice Media's alternative current affairs channel, producing daily documentary essays and video through its website and YouTube channel.
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Violence against women
Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), is violent acts primarily or exclusively committed by men or boys against women or girls.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Wantok Niuspepa
Wantok Niuspepa (Wantok Newspaper) is a weekly newspaper in Papua New Guinea.
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Wawoi River
Wawoi River is a river located in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
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West New Britain Province
West New Britain is a province of Papua New Guinea on the islands of New Britain.
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Western Highlands Province
Western Highlands is a province of Papua New Guinea.
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Western New Guinea
Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, New Guinea, and Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the island of New Guinea, formerly Dutch and granted to Indonesia in 1962. Papua New Guinea and western New Guinea are new Guinea.
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Western Province (Papua New Guinea)
Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian provinces of Highland Papua and South Papua.
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Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
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Wewak
Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea.
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Whitlam government
The Whitlam government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party.
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Witch-hunt
A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft.
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Witchcraft
Witchcraft, as most commonly understood in both historical and present-day communities, is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic.
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Woodlark Island
Woodlark Island, known to its inhabitants simply as Woodlark or Muyua, is the main island of the Woodlark Islands archipelago, located in Milne Bay Province and the Solomon Sea, Papua New Guinea.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yam (vegetable)
Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers (some other species in the genus being toxic).
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Yñigo Ortiz de Retez
Yñigo, Íñigo, or Iñigo Ortiz de Retes (''fl.'' 1545) was a 16th-century Spanish maritime explorer of Basque origin, who navigated the northern coastline of the Pacific–Melanesian island of New Guinea and is credited with bestowing its current name (Nova Guinea; Nueva Guinea).
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.pg
.pg is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Papua New Guinea.
12th parallel south
The 12th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 12 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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140th meridian east
The meridian 140° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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141st meridian east
The 141st meridian east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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160th meridian east
The meridian 160° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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1972 Australian federal election
The 1972 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 2 December 1972.
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1972 Papua New Guinean general election
General elections were held in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea between 19 February and 11 March 1972.
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1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake
The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake occurred on July 17 with a moment magnitude of 7.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
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2002 Sandaun earthquake
On September 9, 2002, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Wewak, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.
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2006 Southern Leyte mudslide
On February 17, 2006, a massive rock slide-debris avalanche occurred in the Philippine province of Southern Leyte, causing widespread damage and loss of life.
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2007 Papua New Guinean general election
General elections were held in Papua New Guinea from 30 June 2007 to 14 July 2007.
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2011–2012 Papua New Guinean constitutional crisis
2011–2012 Papua New Guinean constitutional crisis was a dispute between Sir Michael Somare and Peter O'Neill.
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2018 Papua New Guinea earthquake
The Papua New Guinea earthquake was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that occurred in the Hela Province of Papua New Guinea on 26 February 2018 (25 February UTC), at 3:44 a.m. local time (25 February, 17:44 UTC).
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2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum
A non-binding independence referendum was held in Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, between 23 November and 7 December 2019.
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2022 Papua New Guinea earthquake
On 11 September 2022, an earthquake of moment magnitude 7.6–7.7 struck Papua New Guinea, in the northern part of Morobe Province.
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2022 Papua New Guinean general election
General elections were held in Papua New Guinea from 4 to 22 July 2022 to elect the members of the National Parliament for a new five-year term.
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See also
1975 establishments in Papua New Guinea
- Bismarck Archipelago
- Bougainville Island
- Governor-General of Papua New Guinea
- Mineral Resources Development Company
- Monarchy of Papua New Guinea
- National Parliament of Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea
- Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
- Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea
- The Scout Association of Papua New Guinea
Countries in Australasia
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Papua New Guinea
Countries in Melanesia
- Fiji
- Indonesia
- Papua New Guinea
- Solomon Islands
- Vanuatu
Countries in Oceania
- Australia
- Cook Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Kiribati
- List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP (PPP)
- List of Oceanian countries by GDP
- List of Oceanian countries by GDP growth
- List of countries in Asia-Pacific by GDP (nominal)
- Marshall Islands
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
New Guinea
- History of New Guinea
- Indo-Australian Plate
- New Guinea
- New Guinea campaign
- Papua New Guinea
- Van Mook–MacArthur Civil Affairs Agreement
- Western New Guinea
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