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New Guinea is the second largest non-continental island in the world (the largest is Greenland), situated to the north of Australia.

It is has a north-south border, that divides the island into east and west divisions.

The east:

The west:

  • Papua - the Indonesian half of the island, formerly Irian Jaya

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