Papua New Guinea http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D010219 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C16952 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Papua_New_Guinea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q691 A country consisting of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and adjacent islands, including New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, and New Hanover in the Bismarck Archipelago; Bougainville and Buka in the northern Solomon Islands; the D'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands; Woodlark (Murua) Island; and the Louisiade Archipelago. It became independent on September 16, 1975. Formerly, the southern part was the Australian Territory of Papua, and the northern part was the UN Trust Territory of New Guinea, administered by Australia. They were administratively merged in 1949 and named Papua and New Guinea, and renamed Papua New Guinea in 1971. A country in southeastern Asia, comprising a group of islands and including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia. New Guinea country