PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Catalogue of definitives stamps
Country
Papua New Guinea
Continent
Oceania
Capital
Port Moresby
Description
Papua New Guinea is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and some islands in Melanesia, in the Pacific Ocean. It borders to Indonesia to the west.
La Papua Nuova Guinea is a Commonwealth realm after its independence gained on 16 September, 1975. After World War II the territories of New Guinea (German colony) and the Territory of Papua (British colony) were combined into the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.