Papua-Neuguinea
Neuigkeiten, Termine, Marktplatz und Menschen aus Papua-Neuguinea.
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- Gegründet
- 1975
- Fläche
- 462840,0 km²
- Hauptstadt
- Port Moresby
- Amtssprachen
- Hiri Motu, Papua New Guinean Sign Language, Tok Pisin, English
Einwohnerentwicklung
- 1960: 1966957
- 1965: 2161102
- 1970: 2434754
- 1975: 2809692
- 1980: 3215483
- 1985: 3677854
- 1990: 4157903
- 1995: 4715929
- 2000: 5379226
- 2005: 6095959
- 2010: 6858945
- 2020: 8935000
Hier geboren
- Michael Somare (1936–2021) – Papua New Guinean political figure, former prime minister
- James Marape (1971) – Papua New Guinea politician
- Peter O'Neill (1965) – Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea from 2011 to 2019
- Manasseh Sogavare (1955) – Solomon Islander politician (1955–), prime minister of Solomon Islands (2000–2001, 2006–2007, 2014–2017, 2019–2024)
- Julius Chan (1939–2025) – Papua New Guinean politician (1939–2025)
- Michael Ogio (1942–2017) – Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (1942-2017)
- John Ribat (1957) – Papua New Guinean cardinal (born 1957)
- Paulias Matane (1931–2021) – Governor-General of Papua New Guinea
Sehenswert
- Kuk Swamp – archaeological site
- Lake Kutubu – lake in Papua New Guinea
- Kokoda Track – trail in Papua New Guinea, WW2 battlefield
- Tonda Wildlife Management Area – protected area in Papua New Guinea
Partnerstädte
Quelle: Wikidata (CC0 1.0) · Bild: User:Nightstallion, Public domain – Wikimedia Commons · Bild: Sodacan, CC BY-SA 4.0 – Wikimedia Commons
Aktuelle Beiträge
- Papua New Guinea – from ancient farmers to an independent Pacific nation · Sandaun ·
People reached New Guinea tens of thousands of years ago, and in the highlands, at sites such as Kuk, some of the world's earliest agriculture developed independently. Over millennia hundreds of communities formed their…
- Eastern Highlands Province – home of the Asaro mud masks · Eastern Highlands ·
The Eastern Highlands are widely known for the Asaro mud mask, worn at shows and festivals within the province and elsewhere in the country, and one of the most recognisable images of highland culture. Goroka, the provi…
- Southern Highlands Province – the high valleys around Mendi · Southern Highlands ·
The Southern Highlands lie in the mountainous interior of Papua New Guinea, a country of high valleys, ridges and rivers where gardens climb the slopes and villages are often spread along the hillsides. The town of Mend…
- Western Highlands Province – coffee and tea country around Mount Hagen · Western Highlands ·
The Western Highlands are known above all for their gardens and plantations: tea and coffee grown in the high valleys have shaped work, trade and daily rhythms here for decades. Mount Hagen, the provincial capital, grew…
- Enga Province – the highland province created at independence in 1975 · Enga ·
Enga became a province in its own right in 1975, when it was separated from the neighbouring Western Highlands at the time of national independence. Unusually for Papua New Guinea, one language is spoken across all five…
- Chimbu Province – at the foot of Mount Wilhelm, the country's highest peak · Chimbu ·
Chimbu, also spelled Simbu, lies in the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea, and its best-known landmark is Mount Wilhelm, the highest mountain in the country, which rises on the boundary between eastern Simbu and west…
- Manus Province – the island province of the Admiralty Islands · Manus ·
Manus is the smallest province of Papua New Guinea in both land area and population — around 2,000 square kilometres and some 69,560 people — yet it looks after more than 220,000 square kilometres of sea. It is made up …
- New Ireland Province – named Nova Hibernia by Philip Carteret in 1767 · New Ireland ·
In 1767 the British explorer Philip Carteret established that this long, narrow island was separate from New Britain and gave it the Latin name Nova Hibernia — New Ireland. Dutch explorers had made the first European co…
- East New Britain Province – the 1994 eruption that reshaped Rabaul · East New Britain ·
In 1994 a volcanic eruption largely destroyed Rabaul, the province's old capital and long one of the most important harbour towns in the region. The administration moved a short distance to Kokopo, which has been the pr…
- West New Britain Province – home of the Nakanai, Kove and their neighbours · West New Britain ·
West New Britain occupies the western part of the island of New Britain, with Kimbe as its provincial capital and a single land border, with East New Britain. Seven major peoples live here — the Nakanai, Bakovi, Kove, U…
- Autonomous Region of Bougainville – at least 29,000 years of island life · Bougainville ·
People have lived on Bougainville for at least 29,000 years, as finds from Kilu Cave on Buka Island show. Until about 10,000 years ago the land formed one larger island, sometimes called Greater Bougainville. The first …
- Gulf Province – where the great rivers meet the Papuan Gulf · Gulf ·
Gulf Province is shaped by water. The Kikori, Turama, Purari and Vailala rivers wind down from the interior and meet the sea in the wide Papuan Gulf, creating a landscape of lowland deltas, grassland flood plains and mo…
- Port Moresby – the harbour charted and named in 1873 · Port Moresby ·
In February 1873 the crew of HMS Basilisk surveyed this stretch of the southern New Guinea coast, and Captain John Moresby named the harbour after his father, Fairfax Moresby; the anchorage off Paga Hill appeared on his…
- Central Province – the southern coast around the national capital · Central ·
Central Province runs along the southern coast of Papua New Guinea, from beaches and mangroves inland towards the foothills of the mountains. With about 237,016 inhabitants spread over nearly 30,000 square kilometres, i…
- Milne Bay Province – a province of more than 600 islands · Milne Bay ·
Milne Bay is a province of the sea as much as of the land: more than 600 islands lie within its waters, about 160 of them inhabited, spread across some 252,990 square kilometres of ocean alongside 14,345 square kilometr…
- Oro Province – the Papuan coast beneath the Owen Stanley Range · Oro ·
Oro Province, officially still Northern Province, lies on the Papuan Peninsula between the mountains and the sea. Its coastline, river valleys and volcanic soils have long supported gardens and villages, and oil palm is…
- Morobe Province – from the old outpost of Morobe to the city of Lae · Morobe ·
The province takes its name from Morobe, once an outpost of the German New Guinea Company south-east of Lae, known in that period as Adolfhafen. European contact came earlier: in 1793 Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux saile…
- Madang Province – a coast of volcanoes and many languages · Madang ·
Madang lies along the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and holds an extraordinary variety within one province: some of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes, offshore islands and coral reefs. It is al…
- East Sepik Province – life along the mighty Sepik River · East Sepik ·
East Sepik takes its name and much of its character from the Sepik, one of the great rivers of the Pacific, whose winding course and seasonal floods have shaped village life for generations; the river communities are wi…
- Western Province – the province of the great Fly River · Western ·
Western Province stretches across the south-west of Papua New Guinea, from the lowlands and wetlands of the Fly River to the mountains of the interior, and it shares a land border with the Indonesian provinces to the we…
Termine
- New moon · · Papua-Neuguinea,
- World Diabetes Day · · Papua-Neuguinea,
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women · · Papua-Neuguinea,
- Full moon · · Papua-Neuguinea,
- World AIDS Day · · Papua-Neuguinea,
- United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities · · Papua-Neuguinea,
- International Volunteer Day · · Papua-Neuguinea,
- New moon · · Papua-Neuguinea,
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