PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Located in Oceania, north of Australia and west of Indonesia, the official name of the country is Independent State of Papua New Guinea. The capital city is Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a population of 6.7million.


PNG is a country with more than 600 islands and 800 indigenous languages. The three official languages are English, Tok Pisin and Motu. It has a constitutional monarchy with parliamentary democracy government.


It is loaded with natural resources such as gold, copper ore, crude oil, natural gas, timber, fish, palm oil, tea, rubber and logs.


Major ethnic groups are the Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian and Polynesia. PNG is renowned for its immense diversity of cultures, languages and tribal traditions.