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6 00 S, 147 00 E
Regional Information

Oceania, group of islands including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia

Capital City

Port Moresby
Regional Relationships

relies on assistance from Australia to keep out illegal cross-border activities from primarily Indonesia, including goods smuggling, illegal narcotics trafficking, and squatters and secessionists
Environmental: Goals/Challenges/Agreements

Challenges

Rain forest subject to deforestation as a result of growing commercial demand for tropical timber; pollution from mining projects; severe drought

International Agreements

Party to: Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Humanitarian Projects
Native 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)
Climate

Tropical; northwest monsoon (December to March), southeast monsoon (May to October); slight seasonal temperature variation