New Guinea Location On World Map
The orthographic azimuthal projection for the globe and the simple geographic projection for the rectangular part of the map.
New guinea location on world map. Papua new guinea includes the eastern half of the island of new guinea the islands of the bismarck archipelago and the island of bougainville itself still politically part of the solomon islands. It is isolated by the arafura sea to the west and the torres strait and coral sea to the east. Papua new guinea is located in oceania in the southwestern pacific ocean. This map shows where papua new guinea is located on the world map.
Papua west papua provinces papua new guinea. Geographic projection has straight meridians and parallels each degree of latitude and longitude is the same size over the entire world map. Papua new guinea location on the world map click to see large. New york city map.
Papua new guinea s other islands include new ireland new britain bougainville and manus island. Guinea formerly known as french guinea is today one of africa s poorest countries. Guinea belonged to a series of empires until france colonized it in the 1890s and subsequently made it part of french west africa. Papua new guinea location highlighted on the world map you are here.
Making up the eastern half of the island of new guinea the papua new guinea mainland is the center of most of the country s population and most of its cities. It is the world s third largest island country with 462 840 km 2 178 700 sq mi. Go back to see more maps of papua new guinea. The location map of papua new guinea combines two projections.
Central simbu eastern highlands east sepik enga gulf hela jiwaka. The western half of new guinea forms the indonesian provinces of papua and west papua. The location map of papua new guinea below highlights the geographical position of papua new guinea within oceania on the world map. Topographical map of new guinea new guinea is an island to the north of the australian mainland but south of the equator.
New guinea location on the indonesia map click to see large. Rio de janeiro map. Its capital located along its southeastern coast is port moresby. Slave trade flourished with the arrival of the europeans and political instability prevailed as the french struggled to control their colonies within the guinean region.
New york city map. This map shows where new guinea is located on the indonesia map.