!!!Papua New Guinea: Geography
||Location|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
||Geographic Coordinates|6 00 S, 147 00 E[{GoogleMap location='-6.0,147.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''462,840 sq km\\''land: ''452,860 sq km\\''water: ''9,980 sq km\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''820 km\\''border countries: ''Indonesia 820 km
||Coastline|5,152 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Pacific Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Mount Wilhelm 4,509 m
||Highest Mountains| Mount Wilhelm   4509   m;  Mount Giluwe   4367   m;  Mount Bangeta   4121   m;  Mount Victoria   4038   m;  Mount Albert Edward   3990   m\\[[__Verified__]\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Asia/Papua_New_Guinea/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills
||Natural Hazards|active volcanism; situated along the Pacific "Ring of Fire"; the country is subject to frequent and sometimes severe earthquakes; mud slides; tsunamis volcanism: severe volcanic activity; Ulawun (elev. 2,334 m), one of Papua New Guinea's potentially most dangerous volcanoes, has been deemed a Decade Volcano by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, worthy of study due to its explosive history and close proximity to human populations; Rabaul (elev. 688 m) destroyed the city of Rabaul in 1937 and 1994; Lamington erupted in 1951 killing 3,000 people; Manam's 2004 eruption forced the island's abandonment; other historically active volcanoes include Bam, Bagana, Garbuna, Karkar, Langila, Lolobau, Long Island, Pago, St. Andrew Strait, Victory, and Waiowa
||Natural Resource|gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries
||Land Use|''arable land: ''0.65%\\''permanent crops: ''1.51%\\''other: ''97.84% (2011)
||Climate|tropical; northwest monsoon (December to March), southeast monsoon (May to October); slight seasonal temperature variation
||Irrigated Land|0 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|801 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|rain forest subject to deforestation as a result of growing commercial demand for tropical timber; pollution from mining projects; severe drought
||Environment - 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
||Large Cities|Port Moresby; Lae; Arawa; Mount Hagen; Popondetta\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Papua_New_Guinea/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|shares island of New Guinea with Indonesia; one of world's largest swamps along southwest coast\\[Important Lakes|Geography/Asia/Papua_New_Guinea/Geography/Important_Lakes]