{"id":20628,"date":"2024-11-04T10:16:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T04:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20628"},"modified":"2025-04-06T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:05:09","slug":"papua-new-guinea-world-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/papua-new-guinea-world-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Papua New Guinea:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an island country that lies in the <strong>south-western Pacific.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It includes the eastern half of New Guinea (the world\u2019s second largest island) and many small offshore islands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neighbours:<\/strong> Indonesia to the west, Australia to the south, and the Solomon Islands to the south-east.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terrain:<\/strong> It is mainly mountainous but has low-lying plains in southern New Guinea.<\/li>\n<li>The islands that constitute Papua New Guinea were settled over a period of 40,000 years by a mixture of peoples who are generally referred to as Melanesians.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English is the main language of government and commerce. In most everyday contexts, the most widely spoken language is <strong>Tok Pisin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Government:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The country is a constitutional monarchy and a member of the Commonwealth.<\/li>\n<li>The British monarch, represented by a governor-general, is head of state, and the Prime Minister is head of government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Papua New Guinea\u2019s <strong>rainforests are rich in biodiversity<\/strong>, housing rare species such as birds of paradise, <strong>tree kangaroos, and the Queen Alexandra\u2019s birdwing butterfly<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These forests represent only one per cent of Earth\u2019s land but play a vital role in absorbing carbon and supporting the lives and traditions of Papua New Guinea\u2019s indigenous peoples.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital:<\/strong> Port Moresby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Monarchy?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a political system in which supreme authority is vested in the monarch, an individual ruler who functions as head of state. It typically acts as a political-administrative organization and as a social group of nobility known as \u201ccourt society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/papua-new-guineas-rainforests-in-danger-illegal-logging-crises-fuel-human-rights-abuses-and-threaten-biodiversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Papua New Guinea\u2019s rainforests in danger; illegal logging crises fuel human rights abuses and threaten biodiversity<\/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":20629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20628","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\/20628","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=20628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}