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Papua New Guinea (PNG) became an independent country in 1975; it comprises the territory of both the former Australian colony of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea (a German colony from 1885 to 1914, then under Australian control from 1914 to 1975). The South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea is located north of Australia, east of Indonesia, and south of Micronesia. The nation constitutes the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (its southern half is known as Papua) and dozens of island groups on the east, with New Ireland, New Britain, and Bougainville being the largest. The island nation stretches 2,100 km from west to east (141 to 160 degrees longitude) and 1,575 km from north to south (equator to 14 degrees latitude).
The Chinese in Papua New Guinea have been a fluid and fluctuating diaspora population, composed of ethnic Chinese (and their descendants) who came directly from different parts of south China as well as Southeast...
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Wu, D.Y.H. (2005). Chinese in Papua New Guinea. In: Ember, M., Ember, C.R., Skoggard, I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_73
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