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Noun: Independent State of Papua New Guinea
  1. 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
    - Papua New Guinea

Type of: country, land, state

Part of: British Commonwealth, Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations, New Guinea

Encyclopedia: Independent State of Papua New Guinea