Capital: Port Moresby
Currency: Kina
Area: 462,840 square miles.
Land: 452,860 square miles.
Water: 9,980 square miles.
Population: 5,931,769 people.
Ethnic Groups: Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian
Religion: Roman Catholic 27%, Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 10%, Pentecostal 8.6%, Evangelical Alliance 5.2%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.5%, other Protestant 8.9%, Bahai 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3%
Languages: Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region, note: 820 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total)

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