Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea ranks 200th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tuvalu, Samoa, and Gibraltar. Memorable people born in present day Papua New Guinea include Paulias Matane, Michael Somare, and Manasseh Sogavare. Memorable people who died in Papua New Guinea include Isoroku Yamamoto, Paulias Matane, and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Papua New Guinea has been the birth place of many politicians and religious figures and the death place of many politicians and military personnels.

Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia. Officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, it shares its only land border with Indonesia to the west and it is directly adjacent to Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest island country, with an area of 462,840 km2 (178,700 sq mi). Read more on Wikipedia