Papua
Papua, also known as Western New Guinea and formerly Irian Jaya, is the easternmost part of Indonesia. It comprises the western half of the island of New Guinea, the world's largest and highest tropical island, while the eastern half is the independent country of Papua New Guinea.
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Papua
- Type: geographical unit of Indonesia
- Description: geographical unit comprising Indonesian part of New Guinea and other islands
- Also known as: “Irian Barat”, “Irian Jaya”, “Irian Occidental”, “Nouvelle-Guinée hollandaise”, “Papua Barat”, “Provinsi Papua”, “Rietumjaungvineja”, “Rietumpapua”, “Tây Papua”, “Vestpapua”, “West Irian”, “West New Guinea”, “Westelijk Papua”, “Western New Guinea”, “Δυτική Παπούα”, “Западный Ириан”, “Ириан-Джая”, “مغربی پاپوا (ریجن)”, “서파푸아”, and “西新几内亚”
- Location: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-4.3° or 4° 18′ south
Longitude of center
136.4° or 136° 24′ east
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Papua” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “New Guinea”
- Arabic: “غرب غينيا الجديدة”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Իրիան”
- Asturian: “Nueva Guinea Occidental”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Yeni Qvineya”
- Balinese: “Papua (wewidangan Indonésia)”
- Balinese: “Papua”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Papua”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম পাপুয়া”
- Bosnian: “Zapadna Nova Gvineja”
- Breton: “Papoua ar C’hornaoueg”
- Bulgarian: “Западна Нова Гвинея”
- Catalan: “Papua Occidental”
- Chinese: “西巴布亚”
- Chinese: “西新畿內亞”
- Czech: “Západní Nová Guinea”
- Danish: “West Papua”
- Dutch: “Papoea”
- Dutch: “Westelijk Nieuw-Guinea”
- Dzongkha: “ནུབ་པ་པུ་ཝ། ས་གནས།”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Nov-Gvineo”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Uusi-Guinea”
- French: “Nouvelle-Guinée occidentale”
- French: “Papouasie”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი ახალი გვინეა”
- German: “Westneuguinea”
- Greek: “Δυτική Νέα Γουινέα”
- Greek: “Πάπουα”
- Gujarati: “વેસ્ટ પપુઆ”
- Hebrew: “מערב גינאה החדשה”
- Hindi: “पश्चिम पापुआ”
- Hungarian: “Nyugat-Új-Guinea”
- Icelandic: “Vestur-Nýja-Gínea”
- Iloko: “Akinlaud a Baro a Guinea”
- Indonesian: “Papua”
- Italian: “Nuova Guinea Occidentale”
- Japanese: “イリアンジャヤ”
- Japanese: “ニューギニア”
- Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಪಪುವಾ”
- Kazakh: “Батыс Ириан”
- Korean: “서뉴기니”
- Latvian: “Rietumu Jaungvineja”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Naujoji Gvinėja”
- Lombard: “Papua”
- Macedonian: “Западна Нова Гвинеја”
- Madurese: “Papua (Wilayah Indonesia)”
- Madurese: “Papua”
- Malagasy: “Ginea-Vaovao Andrefana”
- Malay: “West Papua”
- Malayalam: “വെസ്റ്റേൺ ന്യൂ ഗിനിയ”
- Marathi: “वेस्ट पापुआ”
- Mazanderani: “غربی نو گینه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai New Guinea”
- Minangkabau: “Papua (wilayah Indonesia)”
- Minangkabau: “Papua”
- Mongolian: “Папуа-Шинэ Гвиней”
- Northern Luri: “پاپوآ افتونشین”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vest-Papua”
- Norwegian: “Vest-Papua”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva Guinèa Occidentala”
- Pampanga: “Albugang New Guinea”
- Pampanga: “Western New Guinea”
- Persian: “پاپوآی غربی”
- Persian: “گینه نوی غربی”
- Piemontese: “Papua”
- Polish: “Irian Zachodni”
- Polish: “Nowa Gwinea Zachodnia”
- Portuguese: “Nova Guiné Ocidental”
- Quechua: “Kunti Papwa”
- Romanian: “Noua Guinee Occidentală”
- Russian: “Западная Новая Гвинея”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gini-Nuadh an Iar”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadna Nova Gvineja”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර පැපුවා”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna Nova Gvineja”
- Spanish: “Nueva Guinea Occidental”
- Swahili: “Guinea Mpya ya Kiholanzi”
- Swedish: “Västpapua”
- Swiss German: “Wescht-Neiginea”
- Swiss German: “West-Neuguinea”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு நியூ கினி”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு பாபுஆ”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ పాపువా”
- Thai: “นิวกินีตะวันตก”
- Tok Pisin: “Wes Papua”
- Turkish: “Batı Papua”
- Ukrainian: “Західна Нова Гвінея”
- Urdu: “مغربی پاپوا”
- Uzbek: “Gʻarbiy Yangi Gvineya”
- Venetian: “Nova Guinea Osidentałe”
- Vietnamese: “Tây New Guinea”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katundan nga Bag-o nga Guinea”
- Western Panjabi: “لہندا نیو گنی”
- Wu Chinese: “西巴布亞”
- Yue Chinese: “西新畿內亞”
- “ma Papuwa”
- “Papua”
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