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. The east: The west:…- Type: Island
- Location: Oceania
- Population: 11,300,000
- Latitude of center: -5° or 5° south
- Longitude of center: 140° or 140° east
- Elevation: 164 meters (538 feet)
- GeoNames ID: 2082514
Also Known As
- Achinese: Papua
- Afrikaans: Nieu-Guinee
- Amharic: ኒው ጊኒ
- Arabic: غينيا الجديدة
- Armenian: Նոր Գվինեա
- Asturian: Nueva Guinea
- Azerbaijani: Yeni Qvineya
- Balinese: Papua
- Banjar: Papua
- Bashkir: Яңы Гвинея
- Basque: Ginea Berria
- Belarusian: Востраў 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
- Chinese: 新幾內亞
- Croatian: Nova Gvineja
- Czech: Nová Guinea
- Danish: Ny Guinea
- Dutch: Nieuw-Guinea
- Esperanto: Nov-Gvineo
- Estonian: Uus-Guinea
- Faroese: Ný Guinea
- Finnish: Uusi-Guinea
- French: Nouvelle-Guinée
- Galician: Illa de Nova Guinea
- Georgian: ახალი გვინეა
- German: Neuguinea
- Greek: Νέα Γουινέα
- Guarani: Gynéa Pyahu
- Hakka Chinese: New Guinea
- Hausa: Sabuwar Gini
- Hebrew: גינאה החדשה
- Hindi: नया गिनी
- Hungarian: Új-Guinea
- Icelandic: Nýja-Gínea
- Iloko: Baro a Guinea
- Indonesian: Papua
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Insula Papua
- Irish: An Nua-Ghuine
- Italian: Nuova Guinea
- Japanese: ニューギニア島
- Javanese: Irian
- Kazakh: Жаңа Гвинея аралы
- Kirghiz: Жаңы гвинея
- Korean: 뉴기니섬
- Latin: Nova Guinea
- Latvian: Jaungvineja
- Lingua Franca Nova: Gine Nova
- Lithuanian: Naujoji Gvinėja
- Macedonian: Нова Гвинеја
- Malay: New Guinea
- Malayalam: ന്യൂ ഗിനിയ
- Marathi: न्यू गिनी
- 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
- Occitan (post 1500): Nòva Guinèa
- Pampanga: New Guinea
- Papiamento: Nieuw Guinea
- Persian: گینه نو
- Polish: Nowa Gwinea
- Portuguese: Nova Guiné
- Quechua: Ñukini
- Romanian: Noua Guinee
- Russian: Новая Гвинея
- Samogitian: Naujuojė Gvīniejė
- Saterfriesisch: Näiguinea
- Scots: New Guinea
- Scottish Gaelic: Gini-Nuadh
- Serbian: Нова Гвинеја
- Serbo-Croatian: Nova Gvineja
- Sicilian: Nova Guinea
- Silesian: Nowo Gwinyjo
- Sinhala: පැපුආ දූපත
- Slovak: Nová Guinea
- Slovenian: Nova Gvineja
- Spanish: Nueva Guinea
- Sundanese: Irian
- Swahili: Guinea Mpya
- Swedish: Nya Guinea
- Swiss German: Neiginea
- Tagalog: Bagong Ginea
- Tamil: நியூ கினி
- 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
- Waray (Philippines): Bag-o nga Guinea
- Welsh: Guinea Newydd
- Western Frisian: Nij-Guinee
- Western Mari: У Гвиней
- Western Panjabi: نیو گنی
- Wu Chinese: 新幾內亞
- Yiddish: ניי-גינע
- Yoruba: Guinea Titun
- Yue Chinese: 新畿內亞
- Neu Guinea
- Nouvelle Guinée
- Pulau Irian
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