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English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
New Guinea
- A large Oceanian island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
- (historical) The northern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to Papua.
- (informal) Papua New Guinea.
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Translations
large island
- Arabic: غِينِيَّا اَلْجَدِيدَة f (ḡiniyyā l-jadīda)
- Armenian: Նոր Գվինեա (Nor Gvinea)
- Belarusian: Но́вая Гвіне́я f (Nóvaja Hvinjéja), Но́вая Гвінэ́я f (Nóvaja Hvinéja) (Taraškievica)
- Bengali: নিউগিনি (niugini)
- Breton: Ginea Nevez
- Bulgarian: Но́ва Гвине́я (Nóva Gvinéja)
- Catalan: Nova Guinea f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 新幾內亞 / 新几内亚 (zh) (Xīn Jīnèiyà)
- Czech: Nová Guinea (cs) f
- Danish: Ny Guinea
- Dutch: Nieuw-Guinea (nl) n
- Esperanto: Nov-Gvineo
- Estonian: Uus-Guinea
- Finnish: Uusi-Guinea (fi)
- French: Nouvelle-Guinée (fr) f
- Galician: Nova Guinea (gl) f
- German: Neuguinea (de) n
- Greek: Νέα Γουινέα f (Néa Gouinéa)
- Hebrew: גינאה החדשה f (ginea ha-khadasha)
- Hindi: न्यू गिनी (nyū ginī), नया गिनी m (nayā ginī)
- Hiri Motu: Niu Gini
- Hungarian: Új-Guinea (hu)
- Icelandic: Nýja-Gínea (is)
- Indonesian: Papua (id), Pulau Papua, Irian (id), Pulau Irian, Nugini (rare), Pulau Nugini (rare)
- Irish: an Nua-Ghuine f
- Italian: Nuova Guinea (it) f
- Jamaican Creole: Nyuu Gini
- Japanese: ニューギニア (ja) (Nyūginia)
- Khmer: ហ៊្គីណេថ្មី (hkiineetmii)
- Korean: 뉴기니 (Nyugini)
- Latin: Nova Guinea f
- Latvian: Jaungvineja f
- Lithuanian: Naujoji Gvinėja f
- Macedonian: Нова Гвине́ја f (Nova Gvinéja)
- Marathi: न्यू गिनी (nyū ginī), नवा गिनी (navā ginī)
- Marshallese: Nukne
- Norman: Nouvelle-Dginnée f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Ny-Guinea
- Nynorsk: Ny-Guinea
- Polish: Nowa Gwinea (pl) f
- Portuguese: Nova Guiné f
- Rarotongan: Nūkini
- Romanian: Noua Guinee f
- Russian: Но́вая Гвине́я (ru) f (Nóvaja Gvinéja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Нова Гвинеја f
- Roman: Nova Gvineja (sh) f
- Slovak: Nová Guinea f
- Slovene: Nova Gvineja f
- Spanish: Nueva Guinea f
- Sundanese: Papua, Irian
- Swahili: Guinea Mpya
- Swedish: Nya Guinea (sv)
- Thai: นิวกินี (niu-gì-nii)
- Tok Pisin: Niugini
- Turkish: Yeni Gine (tr)
- Ukrainian: Нова́ Гвіне́я f (Nová Hvinéja), Нова́ Ґвіне́я f (Nová Gvinéja)
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