Papua New Guinea

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Etymology

Malay pepuah ‎(“frizzy”) in reference to locals' hair + new + Guinea (due to the similar complexion of Africans to Papuans)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpæ.puː.ə ˌnjuː ˈɡɪ.ni/, /ˈpæ.pjuː.ə ˌnjuː ˈɡɪ.ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæ.pu.ə ˌnu ˈɡɪ.ni/

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Proper noun

Papua New Guinea

1. A country in Oceania. Official name: Independent State of Papua New Guinea.

Translations

country in Oceania

• Albanian: Papua Guinea e Re f
• Amharic: ፓፑዋ ኒው ጊኒ ‎(papuwa niw gini)
• Arabic: بَابْوَا غِينِيَّا اَلْجَدِيدَة f ‎(bābwā ḡiniyyā l-jadīda), بَابْوَا نْيُو غِينِيَّا f ‎(bābwā nyū ḡiniyyā)
• Armenian: Պապուա Նոր Գվինեա ‎(Papua Nor Gvinea)
• Azeri: Papua Yeni Qvineya
• Belarusian: Папуа́-Но́вая Гвіне́я f ‎(Papuá-Nóvaja Hvinjéja)
• Bengali: পাপুয়া নিউগিনি ‎(papuya niugini)
• Breton: Papoua Ginea-Nevez
• Bulgarian: Папу́а Но́ва Гвине́я f ‎(Papúa Nóva Gvinéja)
• Burmese: ပါပူအာနယူးဂီနီ ‎(papua na.yu:gini), ပါပူအာနယူးဂီနီနိုင်ငံ ‎(papua na.yu:gininuingngam)
• Catalan: Papua Nova Guinea (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴布亞新幾內亞 (zh), 巴布亚新几内亚 (zh) ‎(Bābùyà Xīn Jǐnèiyà)

• Crimean Tatar: Papua Yañı Gvineya
• Czech: Papua-Nová Guinea (cs) f
• Danish: Papua Ny Guinea (da)
• Dutch: Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea (nl)
• Esperanto: Papuo-Nov-Gvineo
• Estonian: Paapua Uus-Guinea (et)
• Finnish: Papua-Uusi-Guinea (fi)
• French: Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée (fr) f
• Galician: Papúa Nova Guinea f
• Georgian: პაპუა-ახალი გვინეა ‎(ṗaṗua-axali gvinea)
• German: Papua-Neuguinea (de) n
• Greek: Παπουασία-Νέα Γουινέα f ‎(Papouasía-Néa Gouinéa)
• Hebrew: פפואה־גינאה החדשה ‎(papu'a-gine'a ha-khadasha)
• Hindi: पापुआ न्यू गिनी (hi) ‎(pāpuā nyū ginī)
• Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini
• Hungarian: Pápua Új-Guinea (hu)
• Icelandic: Papúa Nýja-Gínea (is) f
• Indonesian: Papua Nugini (id)
• Interlingua: Papua Nove Guinea
• Irish: Nua-Ghuine Phapua f, Stát Neamhspleách Nua-Ghuine Phapua m
• Italian: Papua Nuova Guinea (it)
• Japanese: パプアニューギニア ‎(Papua Nyūginia)
• Kazakh: Папуа-Жаңа Гвинея ‎(Papwa-Jaña Gvïneya)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Kikuyu: Papua
• Korean: 파푸아 뉴기니 ‎(Papua Nyugini)
• Kyrgyz: Папуа-Жаңы Гвинея ‎(Papua-Cañı Gvineya)

• Lao: ປາປົວຊີນູແວນກີເນ ‎(pā pūa sī nū wǣn kī nē)
• Latvian: Papua-Jaungvineja (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Papua Naujoji Gvinėja (lt) f
• Luhya: Papua
• Luo: Papua
• Macedonian: Папу́а Но́ва Гвине́ја f ‎(Papúa Nóva Gvinéja)
• Malay: Papua New Guinea
• Maltese: il-Papwa Gwinea Ġdida f
• Maori: Papua Nūkini
• Meriam: Op Dewday
• Mongolian: Папуа-Шинэ Гвиней ‎(Papua-Šine Gvinej)
• Navajo: Páápowa Bigíní Ániidí
• Norman: Papua Nouvelle Dginnée f
• Norwegian: Papua Ny-Guinea
• Persian: پاپوآ گینهٔ نو ‎(pâpuâ gine-ye nou), پاپوا گینهٔ جدید ‎(pâpuâ gine-ye jadid)
• Polish: Papua-Nowa Gwinea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Papua-Nova Guiné (pt)
• Romanian: Papua Noua Guinee f
• Romansch: Papua-Nova Guinea f
• Russian: Папуа́-Но́вая Гвине́я f ‎(Papuá-Nóvaja Gvinéja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Папуа Нова Гвинеја f

  Roman: Papua Nova Gvineja (sh) f

• Slovak: Papua-Nová Guinea f
• Slovene: Papuanska Nova Gvineja f
• Spanish: Papúa Nueva Guinea (es) f
• Swahili: Papua (sw)
• Swedish: Papua Nya Guinea (sv)
• Tagalog: Papua New Guinea
• Tajik: Папуа-Гвинеяи Нав ‎(Papua-Gvineyayi Nav)
• Thai: ปาปัวนิวกินี (th) ‎(bpaa-bpuua-niu-gì-nii)
• Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini
• Turkish: Papua Yeni Gine (tr)
• Turkmen: Papua-Täze Gwineýa
• Ukrainian: Папуа́-Нова́ Гвіне́я f ‎(Papuá-Nová Hvinéja)
• Urdu: پاپوا نیو گنی ‎(pāpuā nyū ginī)
• Uyghur: پاپۇئا يېڭى گۋىنېيە ‎(papu'a yëngi gwinëye)
• Uzbek: Papua Yangi Gvineya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Pa-pua Niu Ghi-nê
• Yakut: Папуа Саҥа Гуинея ‎(Papua Saŋa Guineya)
• Yiddish: פּאַפּואַ־נײַ גינע ‎(papua-nay gine)
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Papua Ginea Newiye

See also

• PNG
• Port Moresby
• New Guinea
• Irian Jaya
• West Irian
• Countries of the world
• Papua New Guinea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia