What the records say
- When
- 1975
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Papua New Guinea
- Coordinates
- 5.70° S, 143.91° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 2600000
- Area km2
- 462840
- Losing
- Australia
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Papua New Guinea
Country in Oceania
Papua New Guinea (PNG), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island nation 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 maritime borders with Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation