Map of Papua New Guinea
Open Papua New Guinea on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.
Facts
As the source states them, in the source’s own words.
| Capital | Port Moresby |
|---|---|
| Area | 462,840 km² |
| Currency | PGK (Papua New Guinean kina) |
| Languages | English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin |
Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.
Historical maps
IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that Papua New Guinea existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.
Dated events in this outline
Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of Papua New Guinea. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.
- 1914
Bita Paka — Australia’s first action of the war, fought for a wireless station in New Britain
World War I · IntMap’s war record
11 September → - 1942
Rabaul is taken and becomes the great Japanese base in the South Pacific
World War II · IntMap’s war record
23 January → - 1942
The Coral Sea — the first battle in which neither fleet sighted the other, and the invasion of Port Moresby is called off
World War II · IntMap’s war record
4 May → - 1942
The Kokoda Track — the Japanese come within fifty kilometres of Port Moresby on foot, over the Owen Stanleys
World War II · IntMap’s war record
21 July → - 1942
Milne Bay — the first outright defeat of a Japanese landing force on land
World War II · IntMap’s war record
25 August → - 1942
Buna–Gona — proportionally costlier than Guadalcanal, and far less remembered
World War II · IntMap’s war record
16 November → - 1943
The Bismarck Sea — a convoy of eight transports is destroyed from the air and New Guinea can no longer be reinforced
World War II · IntMap’s war record
2 March → - 1943
Bougainville — a beachhead is taken and held for two years while Rabaul is left to wither behind it
World War II · IntMap’s war record
1 November →
Open data about Papua New Guinea
The datasets IntMap may share about Papua New Guinea, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/PNG.json
airports
Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
country-facts
ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0
health
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial
Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data
language
public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit
Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)
mobility
ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
religion
public domain · Requires: nothing
What this page states
The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.
A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.
An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.
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