Melanesia
Papua New Guinea
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Core facts
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Population
- 11,781,559
- Area
- 462,840 km^2
- Country code
- PNG
- Flag emoji
- 🇵🇬
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 25.5 per km^2
- Calling code
- +675
Culture and society
- Languages
- English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin
- Religions
- Christianity (67.0%), Unaffiliated (24.0%), Other religions (4.0%), Hinduism (2.0%), Buddhism (2.0%), Islam (100.0%)
- Native names
- Papua New Guinea, Papua Niu Gini, Papua Niugini
- Demonyms (EN)
- Papua New Guinean / Papua New Guinean
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- left
- Timezones
- UTC+10:00
- Alternative spellings
- PG, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini
Geography and map
- Continents
- Oceania
- Coordinates
- -6.00, 147.00
- Landlocked
- No
- Borders
- IDN
- Border countries count
- 1
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- Papua New Guinean kina (K)
- Top-level domain
- .pg
- FIFA code
- PNG
- Capital coordinates
- -9.45, 147.18
- Postal code format
- ###
- Gini index
- 41.9 (2009)
- Coat of arms
