Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is in Melanesia, with its capital at Port Moresby and an area of about 462,840 km². Explore its flag, anthem, population, GDP ranking, government, natural resources, provinces and major cities on an interactive 3D globe.
- Official name
- Independent State of Papua New Guinea
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Region
- Oceania · Melanesia
- Area
- 462,840 km²
- Languages
- English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin
- Currencies
- Papua New Guinean kina (PGK)
- Natural resources
- gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries
- Industries
- oil and gas; mining (gold, copper, and nickel); palm oil processing; plywood and wood chip production; copra crushing; construction; tourism; fishing; livestock (pork, poultry, cattle) and dairy farming; spice products (turmeric, vanilla, ginger, cardamom, chili, pepper, citronella, and nutmeg)
- Main exports
- natural gas, gold, copper ore, palm oil, nickel
First-level divisions (20)
- Central
- Chimbu
- East New Britain
- East Sepik
- Eastern Highlands
- Enga
- Gulf
- Manus
- Milne Bay
- Morobe
- New Ireland
- of Bougainville
- Oro
- Port Moresby
- Sandaun
- Southern Highlands
- West New Britain
- Western
- Western Highlands
- Madang
Major cities
- Port Moresby (population 283,733)
- Lae (population 131,052)
- Madang (population 62,023)
- Mount Hagen (population 59,064)
- Arawa (population 40,266)
- Goroka (population 39,699)
- Popondetta (population 28,198)
- Mendi (population 26,252)
- Wewak (population 25,143)
- Kavieng (population 19,728)
- Kimbe (population 18,847)
- Daru (population 15,214)
- Alotau (population 11,624)
- Vanimo (population 11,204)
- Kundiawa (population 9,383)