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INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Independent State of Papua New Guinea"):
Bismarck Archipelago (a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea)
Bougainville (the largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea)
Papua (the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea)
capital of Papua New Guinea; Port Moresby (the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea)
Holonyms ("Independent State of Papua New Guinea" is a part of...):
New Guinea (a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea)
Holonyms ("Independent State of Papua New Guinea" is a member of...):
British Commonwealth; Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown)
