IndonesiaAbout Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is a country in Melanesia, one of the 14 countries of Oceania on GlobeQuizz. Its full official name is Independent State of Papua New Guinea. In Arabic, the name is written بابوا غينيا الجديدة, and the capital بورت مورسبي. Its geographic centre lies in the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.
The capital of Papua New Guinea is Port Moresby. Port Moresby lies at about 9° south and 147° east. Papua New Guinea has 3 official languages: English, Hiri Motu, and Tok Pisin. Its currency is the Papua New Guinean Kina, with the symbol K and the international code PGK.
Papua New Guinea covers about 462,840 square kilometres, which puts it 55th by area among the 195 countries on GlobeQuizz. It shares land borders with one country: Indonesia. Other countries in Melanesia include the Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Vanuatu. To practise flags, capitals and currencies, play the Oceania quiz on GlobeQuizz, which mixes Papua New Guinea with the other countries of the same region.