Where is Papua New Guinea?
Papua New Guinea is a country in Melanesia, bordered by Indonesia.
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Crazy but True
Papua New Guinea has more languages than any other country on Earth. Over 800 distinct languages are spoken there, roughly one in every eight languages in the world, in a country of about ten million people. Mountain ranges kept communities separated for so long that neighboring valleys developed entirely different tongues.
Papua New Guinea facts
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Population
- 10,762,817 (2025)
- Area
- 462,840 km²
- Continent
- Oceania
- Region
- Melanesia
- Currency
- Papua New Guinean kina (PGK)
- Languages
- English, Hiri Motu, and Tok Pisin
- Coordinates
- -6°, 147°
- Landlocked
- No
- Country code
- PG · PNG
How Papua New Guinea compares
- Papua New Guinea is the 55th largest of the 168 countries on our map by area.
- It is smaller than Cameroon and larger than Sweden.
- It is the 91st most populous of the 167 with population data.
- It shares land borders with 1 country.
- Within Oceania, it is the 2nd largest of 6 countries by area.