New Guinea
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- A large Oceanian island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
- (historical) The northern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to Papua.
(informal) The nation more properly referred to as Papua New Guinea.
- French: Nouvelle Guinée
- German: Neuguinea
- Italian: Nuova Guinea
- Portuguese: Nova Guiné
- Russian: Но́вая Гвине́я
- Spanish: Nueva Guinea
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