Papua New Guinea coastline , Papua New Guinea Natural Resources

Papua New Guinea

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

Map Reference : oceania

Area : total: 462.840 sq km land: 452.860 sq km water: 9.980 sq km

Area Comparative: slightly larger than california

Papua New Guinea More Facts

Land boundaries : total: 820 km border countries: indonesia 820 km

coastline : 190

Maritime Claims : measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
Climate: tropical; northwest monsoon (december to march). southeast monsoon (may to october); slight seasonal temperature variation

Terrain : mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills

Elevation extremes : lowest point: pacific ocean 0 m highest point: mount wilhelm 4.509 m

Natural Resources :gold. copper. silver. natural gas. timber. oil. fisheries

Land use : arable land: 0.46% permanent crops: 1.44% other: 98.1% (2001)

Irrigated Lands : na sq km