Flag | |
Coat of Arms | |
Motto | Unity in Diversity |
Anthem | "O Arise, All You Sons" |
Royal Anthem | "God Save the Queen" |
Capital | Port Moresby |
Official Languages | English Tok Pisin |
Government | Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governor General | Sir Michael Ogio GCMG CBE |
Prime Minister | Peter O'Neill CMG |
Legislature | National Parliament |
Independence | from the Australia |
Unification of Papua and New Guinea | 25 March 1949 |
Declared and recognised | 16 September 1975 |
Currency | Papua New Guinean kina (PGK) |
Papua New Guinea, officially the State of Papua New Guinea (in Tok Pisin, Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country in Oceania occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and a number of surrounding islands. It is one of the seventeen British Commonwealth Realms.