Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Capital Port Moresby
462,840 km² · 10,762,817 people (2025) · Papua New Guinean kina
More languages are spoken here than in any other country — over 800, roughly one in eight of all living languages, among about ten million people. The eastern half of New Guinea plus 600 islands; Mount Wilhelm reaches 4,509 m, and the interior highlands were largely unknown to outsiders until the 1930s.
The facts
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Area
- 462,840 km² — 178,703 sq mi
- Population
- 10,762,817 (2025)
- Density
- 23.3 people per km²
- Currency
- Papua New Guinean kina (PGK, K)
- Official languages
- English, Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin
- Time zones
- UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00
- Calling code
- +675
- Drives on the
- left
- ISO codes
- PG · PNG
- Continent
- Oceania
How it compares
- By area
- 56 of 200
- By population
- 92 of 200
Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.
Countries of a similar size
| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Turkmenistan | 488,100 | 7,618,847 |
| Cameroon | 475,440 | 29,879,337 |
| Papua New Guinea ← | 462,840 | 10,762,817 |
| Sweden | 450,295 | 10,596,620 |
| Uzbekistan | 447,400 | 37,053,428 |
Common questions
- What is the capital of Papua New Guinea?
- Port Moresby
- What currency does Papua New Guinea use?
- The Papua New Guinean kina (PGK).
- How big is Papua New Guinea?
- 462,840 km², or 178,703 square miles — 56 of 200 by area.
- Which side of the road does Papua New Guinea drive on?
- The left.
Related pages
- Turkmenistan 488,100 km²
- Cameroon 475,440 km²
- Sweden 450,295 km²
- Uzbekistan 447,400 km²
- Australia Oceania
- New Zealand Oceania
- Fiji Oceania
- Solomon Islands Oceania
- Vanuatu Oceania
- Samoa Oceania
- Kiribati Oceania
- Micronesia Oceania
Sources
- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (Public domain (US Government))
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (CC BY 4.0)