New Guinea
New Guinea is the second largest non-continental island in the world, situated to the north of Australia. It has a north-south border that divides the island into east and west divisions.
- Type: Island with 11,800,000 residents
- Description: island in the Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Ginea Berri”, “Ginea-Nevez”, “Île de Nouvelle-Guinée”, “Insula Noua Guinee”, “Irian Jaya”, “Isla de Nueva Guinea”, “Isola della Nuova Guinea”, “Musuq Khiniya”, “Näiguienea”, “Neu Guinea”, “Neu-Guinea”, “Nieu-Guinea”, “Nij-Guinea”, “Niugini Ailan”, “Nlle-Guinée”, “Nouvelle Guinee”, “Nouvelle Guinée”, “Nouvelle-Guinee”, “Nova Gvineo”, “Novgvineo”, “Nowo Gwinyja”, “Nugini”, “Ny guinea”, “Nýja Gínea”, “Papoea-eiland”, “Papúa”, “Papua Island”, “Papwa”, “Sai Sin Guinea”, “Tân Gui-nê”, “Tân Guinea”, “Tân Guinée”, “Uus-Ginea”, “Uus-Guinea saar”, “Uusi Guinea”, “Νέα Γουϊνέα”, “Нова Ґвінея”, “Остров Новая Гвинея”, “Папуа”, “גיניאה החדשה”, “ניו גינאה”, “ניו גיני”, “اریان”, “غينيا الجديده”, “گینهٔ نو”, “نيو غينيا”, “نيوغينيا”, “पापुआ”, “நியூகினி”, “நியூகினித்தீவு”, “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്”, “뉴기니”, “뉴기니아 섬”, “뉴기니아섬”, “파푸아 섬”, “イリアン”, “イリアン島”, “イリヤン”, “イリヤン島”, “パプア島”, “伊里安島”, “伊里安查亚”, “新几内亚”, and “紐畿內亞”
New Guinea
- Location: Highland Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-5° or 5° south
Longitude of center
140° east
Population
11,800,000
Elevation
164 metres (538 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“New Guinea” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Papua”
- Achinese: “Pulo Papua”
- Afrikaans: “Nieu-Guinee”
- Amharic: “ኒው ጊኒ”
- Arabic: “غينيا الجديدة”
- Armenian: “Նոր Գվինեա”
- Asturian: “Nueva Guinea”
- Azerbaijani: “Yeni Qvineya”
- Balinese: “Nusa Papua”
- Balinese: “Papua”
- Banjar: “Papua”
- Banjar: “Pulau Papua”
- Bashkir: “Яңы Гвинея”
- Basque: “Ginea Berria”
- Batak Mandailing: “Papua”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Новая Гвінея”
- Belarusian: “Новая Гвінея”
- Belarusian: “Новая Гвінэя”
- Bengali: “নিউ গিনি”
- Bosnian: “Nova Gvineja”
- Breton: “Ginea Nevez”
- Buginese: “Papua”
- Bulgarian: “Нова Гвинея”
- Catalan: “Nova Guinea”
- Cebuano: “New Guinea”
- Central Bikol: “Bagong Guinea”
- Central Kurdish: “نووگینێ”
- Chinese: “新几内亚岛”
- Chinese: “新幾內亞”
- Chinese: “新幾內亞島”
- Chinese: “新畿內亞島”
- Croatian: “Nova Gvineja”
- Czech: “Nová Guinea”
- Danish: “Ny Guinea”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Guinea”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جينيا الجديده”
- Esperanto: “Nov-Gvineo”
- Estonian: “Uus-Guinea”
- Faroese: “Ný Guinea”
- Fiji Hindi: “New Guinea”
- Finnish: “Uusi-Guinea”
- French: “Nouvelle-Guinée”
- Galician: “Illa de Nova Guinea”
- Georgian: “ახალი გვინეა”
- German: “Neuguinea”
- Greek: “Νέα Γουινέα”
- Guarani: “Ginéa Pyahu”
- Guarani: “Gynéa Pyahu”
- Hakka Chinese: “New Guinea”
- Hausa: “Sabuwar Gini”
- Hebrew: “גינאה החדשה”
- Hindi: “नया गिनी”
- Hindi: “न्यू गिनी”
- Hiri Motu: “Niu Gini”
- Hungarian: “Új-Guinea”
- Icelandic: “Nýja-Gínea”
- Ido: “Nova-Guinea”
- Iloko: “Baro a Guinea”
- Indonesian: “Irian” (historical)
- Indonesian: “Papua”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Papua”
- Interlingua: “Nove Guinea”
- Irish: “An Nua-Ghuine”
- Italian: “Nuova Guinea”
- Japanese: “ニューギニア島”
- Javanese: “Irian”
- Javanese: “Pulau Irian”
- Kabyle: “Ginya Tamaynut”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Jańa Gvineya”
- Kazakh: “Жаңа Гвинея аралы”
- Kazakh: “Жаңа Гвинея”
- Khmer: “នូវែលគីនេ”
- Kirghiz: “Жаңы гвинея”
- Kirghiz: “Жаңы Гвинея”
- Komering: “Pulau Papua”
- Korean: “뉴기니섬”
- Kurdish: “Gîneya Nû”
- Kurdish: “Nû Gîne”
- Lao: “ນິວກີເນຍ”
- Latin: “Nova Guinea”
- Latvian: “Jaungvineja”
- Limburgan: “Nui-Guinee”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Gine Nova”
- Lithuanian: “Naujoji Gvinėja”
- Low German: “Nyguinea”
- Luxembourgish: “Neiguinea”
- Macedonian: “Нова Гвинеја”
- Malagasy: “Ginea Vaovao”
- Malay: “New Guinea”
- Malayalam: “ന്യൂ ഗിനിയ”
- Marathi: “न्यू गिनी”
- Mazanderani: “نوگينه جزيره”
- Min Nan Chinese: “New Guinea”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sin Guinea”
- Minangkabau: “Pulau Papua”
- Mingrelian: “ახალი გვინეა”
- Mongolian: “Шинэ Гвиней”
- Northern Frisian: “Nei-Guinea”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ny-Guinea”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ny-Guinea”
- Norwegian: “Ny-Guinea”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva Guinèa”
- Ossetian: “Ног Гвиней”
- Pampanga: “New Guinea”
- Papiamento: “Nieuw Guinea”
- Papiamento: “Nueva Guinea”
- Persian: “گینه نو”
- Polish: “Nowa Gwinea”
- Portuguese: “Nova Guiné”
- Quechua: “Ñukini”
- Romanian: “Noua Guinee”
- Russian: “Новая Гвинея”
- Samogitian: “Naujuojė Gvīniejė”
- Saterfriesisch: “Näiguinea”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gini-Nuadh”
- Serbian: “Нова Гвинеја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nova Gvineja”
- Sicilian: “Nova Guinea”
- Silesian: “Nowo Gwinyjo”
- Sindhi: “نيو گني”
- Sinhala: “පැපුආ දූපත”
- Slovak: “Nová Guinea”
- Slovenian: “Nova Gvineja”
- Spanish: “Nueva Guinea”
- Sundanese: “Irian”
- Swahili: “Guinea Mpya”
- Swedish: “Nya Guinea”
- Swiss German: “Neiginea”
- Swiss German: “Neuguinea”
- Tagalog: “Bagong Ginea”
- Tajik: “Гвинеяи Нав”
- Tamil: “நியூ கினி”
- Tatar: “Яңа Гвинея”
- Telugu: “న్యూ గినియా”
- Thai: “เกาะนิวกินี”
- Tok Pisin: “Niugini”
- Turkish: “Yeni Gine”
- Turkmen: “Täze Gwineýa”
- Ukrainian: “Нова Гвінея”
- Upper Sorbian: “Nowa Gineja”
- Urdu: “نیو گنی”
- Uzbek: “Yangi gvineya”
- Venetian: “Nova Guinea”
- Vietnamese: “New Guinea”
- Vlaams: “Nieuw-Guinea”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bag-o nga Guinea”
- Welsh: “Gini Newydd”
- Welsh: “Guinea Newydd”
- Western Frisian: “Nij-Guineä”
- Western Frisian: “Nij-Guinee”
- Western Mari: “У Гвиней”
- Western Panjabi: “نیو گنی”
- Wu Chinese: “新几内亚岛”
- Wu Chinese: “新幾內亞”
- Yakut: “Саҥа Гвинея”
- Yiddish: “ניי-גינע”
- Yoruba: “Guinea Titun”
- Yue Chinese: “新畿內亞”
- “ma Nijukini”
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