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.| Tap on the map to travel |
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New Guinea
- Type: Island with 11,800,000 residents
- Description: island in the Pacific Ocean
- Location: Highland Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
-5° or 5° southLongitude of centre
140° eastPopulation
11,800,000Elevation
164 metres (538 feet)GeoNames ID
2082514Wikidata ID
Q40285New Guinea Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Ginya Tamaynut
- Achinese: Papua
- Achinese: Pulo Papua
- Afar: Jańa Gvineya
- Afrikaans: Nieu-Guinea
- Afrikaans: Nieu-Guinee
- Afrikaans: Papoea-eiland
- Amharic: ኒው ጊኒ
- Arabic: Bag-o nga Guinea
- Arabic: غينيا الجديدة
- Arabic: غينيا الجديده
- Arabic: نيوغينيا
- Arabic: نيو غينيا
- Armenian: Նոր Գվինեա
- Asturian: Nueva Guinea
- Azerbaijani: Yeni Qvineya
- Balinese: Nusa Papua
- Balinese: Papua
- Banjar: Papua
- Banjar: Pulau Papua
- Bashkir: Яңы Гвинея
- Basque: Ginea Berri
- Basque: Ginea Berria
- Belarusian: Востраў Новая Гвінея
- Belarusian: Новая Гвінея
- Belarusian: Новая Гвінэя
- Bengali: নিউ গিনি
- Bosnian: Nova Gvineja
- Breton: Ginea-Nevez
- Breton: Ginea Nevez
- Buginese: Papua
- Bulgarian: Нова Гвинея
- Bulgarian: Папуа
- Catalan: Nova Guinea
- Cebuano: New Guinea
- Central Kurdish: نووگینێ
- Chinese: New Guinea
- Chinese: 伊里安島
- Chinese: 伊里安查亚
- Chinese: 新几内亚
- Chinese: 新几内亚岛
- Chinese: 新幾內亞
- Chinese: 新畿內亞
- Croatian: Nova Gvineja
- Czech: Nová Guinea
- Danish: Irian Jaya
- Danish: New Guinea
- Danish: Ny-Guinea
- Danish: Ny Guinea
- Dutch: Nieuw-Guinea
- Dutch: Nieuw Guinea
- Egyptian Arabic: جينيا الجديده
- English: Neu Guinea
- English: Nieuw-Guinea
- English: Niugini
- English: Nouvelle Guinee
- English: Nouvelle Guinée
- English: Nov-Gvineo
- English: Nueva Guinea
- English: Papua
- English: Papua Island
- English: Pulau Papua
- Esperanto: Nov-Gvineo
- Esperanto: Nova Gvineo
- Esperanto: Novgvineo
- Estonian: Uus-Ginea
- Estonian: Uus-Guinea
- Estonian: Uus-Guinea saar
- Faroese: Ný Guinea
- Finnish: Papua
- Finnish: Uusi-Guinea
- Finnish: Uusi Guinea
- French: Irian
- French: New Guinea
- French: Nlle-Guinée
- French: Nouvelle-Guinee
- French: Nouvelle-Guinée
- French: Nouvelle Guinée
- French: Île de Nouvelle-Guinée
- Galician: Illa de Nova Guinea
- Galician: Nova Guinea
- Georgian: ახალი გვინეა
- German: Irian
- German: Neu-Guinea
- German: Neu Guinea
- German: Neuguinea
- German: Nieuw-Guinea
- German: Niugini
- Greek: Νέα Γουινέα
- Greek: Νέα Γουϊνέα
- Guarani: Ginéa Pyahu
- Guarani: Gynéa Pyahu
- Hakka Chinese: New Guinea
- Hausa: New Guinea
- Hausa: Sabuwar Gini
- Hebrew: גינאה החדשה
- Hebrew: גיניאה החדשה
- Hebrew: ניו גינאה
- Hebrew: ניו גיני
- Hindi: नया गिनी
- Hindi: पापुआ
- Hiri Motu: Niu Gini
- Hungarian: Új-Guinea
- Icelandic: Nýja-Gínea
- Icelandic: Nýja Gínea
- Ido: Nova-Guinea
- Iloko: Baro a Guinea
- Indonesian (Historic): Irian
- Indonesian: Guinea Baru
- Indonesian: Irian
- Indonesian: New Guinea
- Indonesian: Nugini
- Indonesian: Papua
- Indonesian: Pulau Irian
- Indonesian: Tanah Papua
- Interlingua: Nove Guinea
- Irish: An Nua-Ghuine
- Italian: Isola della Nuova Guinea
- Italian: Nuova Guinea
- Japanese: イリアン
- Japanese: イリアン島
- Japanese: イリヤン
- Japanese: イリヤン島
- Japanese: ニューギニア島
- Japanese: パプア島
- Javanese: Irian
- Javanese: Pulo Papua
- Kabyle: Ginya Tamaynut
- Kara-Kalpak: Jańa Gvineya
- Kazakh: Жаңа Гвинея аралы
- Khmer: នូវែលគីនេ
- Kirghiz: Жаңы гвинея
- Korean: 뉴기니
- Korean: 뉴기니섬
- Korean: 뉴기니아 섬
- Korean: 뉴기니아섬
- Korean: 파푸아 섬
- Kurdish: Gîneya Nû
- Lao: Baro a Guinea
- Latin: Nova Guinea
- Latvian: Jaungvineja
- Lingua Franca Nova: Gine Nova
- Lithuanian: Naujoji Gvinėja
- Low German: Nyguinea
- Macedonian: Нова Гвинеја
- Malagasy: Ginea Vaovao
- Malay: Irian
- Malay: New Guinea
- Malay: Pulau Irian
- Malayalam: ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്
- Malayalam: ന്യൂ ഗിനിയ
- Marathi: न्यू गिनी
- Min Nan Chinese: Sai Sin Guinea
- Min Nan Chinese: Sin Guinea
- Minangkabau: Pulau Papua
- Mingrelian: ახალი გვინეა
- Mongolian: Шинэ Гвиней
- Northern Frisian: Nei-Guinea
- Norwegian: Ny-Guinea
- Norwegian Bokmål: New Guinea
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ny-Guinea
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ny guinea
- Norwegian Bokmål: Papua
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ny-Guinea
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Papua
- Occitan (post 1500): Nòva Guinèa
- Ossetian: Ног Гвиней
- Pampanga: New Guinea
- Papiamento: Nieuw Guinea
- Persian: گینه نو
- Persian: گینهٔ نو
- Polish: Nowa Gwinea
- Portuguese: Nova Guiné
- Portuguese: Papua
- Quechua: Musuq Khiniya
- Quechua: New Guinea
- Quechua: Niugini
- Quechua: Nueva Guinea
- Quechua: Papua
- Quechua: Papwa
- Quechua: Papúa
- Quechua: Ñukini
- Romanian: Insula Noua Guinee
- Romanian: Noua Guinee
- Russian: Новая Гвинея
- Russian: Остров Новая Гвинея
- Samogitian: Naujuojė Gvīniejė
- Saterfriesisch: Näiguienea
- Saterfriesisch: Näiguinea
- Scottish Gaelic: Gini-Nuadh
- Scottish Gaelic: New Guinea
- Serbian: Нова Гвинеја
- Serbian: Папуа
- Serbo-Croatian: Nova Gvineja
- Sicilian: Nova Guinea
- Silesian: Nowo Gwinyja
- Silesian: Nowo Gwinyjo
- Sinhala: පැපුආ දූපත
- Slovak: Nová Guinea
- Slovenian: Nova Gvineja
- Slovenian: Papua
- Spanish: Isla de Nueva Guinea
- Spanish: New Guinea
- Spanish: Nueva Guinea
- Spanish: Papua
- Sundanese: Irian
- Sundanese: Nugini
- Sundanese: Papua
- Swahili: Guinea Mpya
- Swedish: Nya Guinea
- Swiss German: Neiginea
- Tagalog: Bagong Ginea
- Tajik: Гвинеяи Нав
- Tamil: நியூகினி
- Tamil: நியூ கினி
- Tamil: நியூகினித்தீவு
- Thai: New Guinea
- Thai: เกาะนิวกินี
- Tok Pisin: Niugini
- Tok Pisin: Niugini Ailan
- Tosk Albanian: Neuguinea
- Turkish: Yeni Gine
- Turkmen: Täze Gwineýa
- Ukrainian: Нова Гвінея
- Ukrainian: Нова Ґвінея
- Upper Sorbian: Nowa Gineja
- Urdu: اریان
- Urdu: نیو گنی
- Uzbek: Yangi gvineya
- Venetian: Nova Guinea
- Vietnamese: New Guinea
- Vietnamese: Tân Gui-nê
- Vietnamese: Tân Guinea
- Vietnamese: Tân Guinée
- Vlaams: Nieuw-Guinea
- Waray (Philippines): Bag-o nga Guinea
- Waray (Philippines): New Guinea
- Welsh: Gini Newydd
- Welsh: Guinea Newydd
- Western Frisian: Nij-Guinea
- Western Frisian: Nij-Guinee
- Western Frisian: Nij-Guineä
- Western Mari: У Гвиней
- Western Panjabi: نیو گنی
- Wu Chinese: 新幾內亞
- Yiddish: ניי-גינע
- Yoruba: Guinea Titun
- Yoruba: New Guinea
- Yue Chinese: New Guinea
- Yue Chinese: 新幾內亞
- Yue Chinese: 新畿內亞
- Yue Chinese: 紐畿內亞
- Nû Gîne
- Жаңа Гвинея
- Жаңы Гвинея
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page New Guinea. Photo: Vladimir Lysenko (I.), CC BY-SA 4.0.