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