Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea ranks 194th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Belize, Equatorial Guinea, and South Sudan. Memorable people born in present day Papua New Guinea include James Marape, John Ribat, and Michael Ogio. Memorable people who died in Papua New Guinea include Isoroku Yamamoto, Tokutaro Ukon, and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. Papua New Guinea has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels.

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital, on its southern 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