Papua

[pap-yoo-uh, pah-poo-ah]

noun

1. Papua New Guinea.

2. Gulf of, an inlet of the Coral Sea on the SE coast of New Guinea.

Papua

/ ˈpæpjʊə /

noun

1. Former name: British New Guinea. a former territory of Australia, consisting of SE New Guinea and adjacent islands: now part of Papua New Guinea

2. Former names (until 1962): Dutch New Guinea.  Netherlands New Guinea. Former Indonesian names: Irian Barat.  Irian Jaya. Former English name: West Irian. the W part of the island of New Guinea: formerly under Dutch rule, becoming a province of Indonesia in 1963. Capital: Jayapura. Pop: 2 220 934 (2000). Area: 416 990 sq km (161 000 sq miles)

3. an inlet of the Coral Sea in the SE coast of New Guinea

Example Sentences

Flash floods and landslides in a remote area of Papua in Indonesia's east killed at least 23 people, Muhari said.

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Earlier in 2022, 16 people, including a child, were killed and more than a dozen others were injured when a truck descending a remote mountain in West Papua careened into a cliff and crashed.

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Among their most prominent examples is a campaign in South Papua province's Merauke that some environmentalists dub the world's "largest deforestation project".

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It will allow as many as 10,000 Papua New Guineans to serve in Australia's military, and give them the option to become Australian citizens.

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The Raja Ampat archipelago - a group of small islands in Indonesia's Southwest Papua Province - has been dubbed the "Amazon of the Seas".

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