Oceania · Melanesia
Papua New Guinea
11 cities in the atlas · 21 airports with scheduled flights
Kokoda Track · Photo: Luke Brindley · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Currency
- PGK
- Papua New Guinean Kina
- Local time
- Papua New Guinea TimeUTC+10:00
- 1 more
- Calling code
- +675
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type I
Facts
Papua New Guinea in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Currency
- Papua New Guinean Kina PGKToday's indicative rate: PGK 1 ≈ USD 0.222Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: Tok Pisin, English and Hiri MotuSpoken: English, Hiri Motu and Tok Pisin
- Time zones
- Papua New Guinea TimeUTC+10:00UTC+11:00
- Calling code
- +675
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type I240 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 110fire111ambulance112policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 10,762,817 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 462,840 km²
- Internet domain
- .pg
- Land borders
- Indonesia
When to go
Climate across Papua New Guinea
On these averages, Port Moresby has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in April to December.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
On the map
Where Papua New Guinea is
The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.
Land borders
Cities
Cities in Papua New Guinea
All 11 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
Smaller places with an airport · 10
Airports
Airports in Papua New Guinea
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to Papua New Guinea
Tell us where in Papua New Guinea, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.