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Papua New Guinea

Capital: Port Moresby

• About 840 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea, the most linguistically diverse country in the world.
• The land of Papua New Guinea supports around 5 percent of all known species on Earth.
• The Kuk site near Mount Hagen has drainage ditches about 9,000 years old, one of the earliest known places where farming developed.
• Mount Wilhelm rises to 4,509 metres and is the highest point in Papua New Guinea.

Cities

• Port Moresby
• Lae
• Mount Hagen
• Madang