At over 460,000 square kilometers, PNG is the second-largest country in Australasia. Formerly governed by Australia under UN mandate, it became independent in 1975.
巴布亞紐幾內亞在南太平洋是僅次於澳洲的第二大國，一九七五年脫離澳洲托管獨立之後，仍是大英國協的會員國。