{"id":11218,"date":"2023-05-24T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11218"},"modified":"2025-03-30T01:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:46:32","slug":"key-facts-about-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-papua-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Papua New Guinea:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>:\u00a0 It is an <strong>island country<\/strong> that lies in the <strong>south-western Pacific<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>includes the eastern half of New Guinea<\/strong> (the <strong>world\u2019s second largest island<\/strong>) and many <strong>small offshore islands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neighbours<\/strong>:\u00a0 <strong>Indonesia<\/strong> to the west, <strong>Australia<\/strong> to the south and <strong>Solomon Islands<\/strong> to the south-east.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital<\/strong>: <strong>Port Moresby<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Terrain<\/strong>: It is <strong>mainly mountainous<\/strong> but has low-lying plains in southern New Guinea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The islands<\/strong> that constitute Papua New Guinea <strong>were settled<\/strong> over a period of 40,000 years <strong>by the mixture of peoples who are generally referred to as Melanesians.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Language<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>English is the main language of government<\/strong> <strong>and commerce<\/strong>.\u00a0 In most everyday contexts the <strong>most widely spoken language is Tok Pisin<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Linguistically<\/strong>, it is the <strong>world&#8217;s most diverse country<\/strong>, with <strong>more than 800 languages.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion<\/strong>: <strong>The majority<\/strong> of Papua New Guinea\u2019s people <strong>are<\/strong> <strong>at least nominally Christian.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Government<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Papua New Guinea became self-governing on 1 December 1973 and <strong>achieved independence on 16 September 1975.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The country is a <strong>constitutional monarchy<\/strong> and a <strong>member of the Commonwealth<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>British monarch<\/strong>, <strong>represented by a governor-general, is head of state<\/strong>, and the <strong>Prime Minister is head of government<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Forum for India-Pacific Islands cooperation (FIPIC)?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>multinational grouping<\/strong> for cooperation between <strong>India and 14 Pacific Islands nations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It include 14 islands named- <strong>Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The FIPIC initiative marks a serious effort to expand India&#8217;s engagement in the Pacific region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Forum for India-Pacific Islands cooperation (FIPIC)?<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0It is a multinational grouping for cooperation between India and 14 Pacific Islands nations. It includes 14 islands named- Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pm-modi-leaves-for-australia-after-concluding-papua-new-guinea-visit\/article66880078.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Modi leaves for Australia after concluding Papua New Guinea visit<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea is an island country that lies in the south-western Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}