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title: "Papua New Guinea — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Papua New Guinea: capital Port Moresby, area 462,840 km², population 10,762,817 (2025), currency Papua New Guinean kina. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/papua-new-guinea/
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# 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](https://atoneplace.net/country/turkmenistan/)
- [Cameroon](https://atoneplace.net/country/cameroon/)
- [Sweden](https://atoneplace.net/country/sweden/)
- [Uzbekistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/uzbekistan/)
- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [New Zealand](https://atoneplace.net/country/new-zealand/)
- [Fiji](https://atoneplace.net/country/fiji/)
- [Solomon Islands](https://atoneplace.net/country/solomon-islands/)
- [Vanuatu](https://atoneplace.net/country/vanuatu/)
- [Samoa](https://atoneplace.net/country/samoa/)
- [Kiribati](https://atoneplace.net/country/kiribati/)
- [Micronesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/micronesia/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]