Map of Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 6.0° S, 147.0° E. It shares land borders with 1 country — Indonesia — and also has its own coastline. Within Oceania, a continent of 14 countries bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean, Papua New Guinea is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Papua New Guinea shares land frontiers with the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Papua New Guinea covers about 462,840 km² (178,704 sq mi). That makes it the 54th-largest country in the world by area and the 2nd-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 12 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 11,781,559, the 83rd-largest in the world and the 2nd-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 25% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Papua New Guinea has an average population density of about 25 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 2nd by population and 2nd by area.

The seat of government is Port Moresby, and the official currency is the Papua New Guinean kina (PGK, K), and the main official languages are English, Hiri Motu and Tok Pisin. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+10:00.

Papua New Guinea carries the ISO country codes PG and PNG, dials on the international calling code +675 and uses the .pg internet domain.

Papua New Guinea shares its land borders with 1 country, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Indonesia (capital Jakarta, about 284,438,782 people).

By area, Papua New Guinea is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 6.0° S, 147.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Papua New Guinea within Oceania. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Port Moresby. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Papua New Guinea lies about 666 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Papua New Guinea keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+10:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +10:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Papua New Guinean kina (PGK, K).

The official languages are English, Hiri Motu and Tok Pisin, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +675 and websites commonly use the .pg internet domain.

In short, Papua New Guinea is a coastal country in Oceania, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea has a population of about 11,781,559 and covers around 462,840 km² (178,704 sq mi), ranking it 83rd in the world by population and 54th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Papua New Guinea.

The flag of Papua New Guinea is divided diagonally, from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner, into a lower black and an upper red triangle. On the hoist side of the lower black triangle is a representation of the Southern Cross constellation made up of one small and four larger five-pointed white stars. A golden Raggiana bird-of-paradise is situated on the fly side of the upper red triangle.

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