papua new guinea

Noun papua new guinea has 1 sense

• papua new guinea(n = noun.location) independent state of papua new guinea - a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations;
is a member of british commonwealth, commonwealth of nations
is a kind of country, land, state
has parts: bismarck archipelago, bougainville, papua, capital of papua new guinea, port moresby
is a part of new guinea