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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024New′ Guin′ea, - Place Namesa large island N of Australia, politically divided into the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya (West Irian) and the independent country of Papua New Guinea. 2,800,000;
ab. 316,000 sq. mi. (818,000 sq. km).
New′ Guin′ean. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: New Guinea n - an island in the W Pacific, north of Australia: divided politically into Papua (formerly Irian Jaya, a province of Indonesia) in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east. There is a central chain of mountains and a lowland area of swamps in the south and along the Sepik River in the north. Area: 775 213 sq km (299 310 sq miles)
- Trust Territory of New Guinea ⇒ (until 1975) an administrative division of the former Territory of Papua and New Guinea, consisting of the NE part of the island of New Guinea together with the Bismarck Archipelago; now part of Papua New Guinea
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