Papua
pronunciation
How to pronounce Papua in British English:
UK [ˈpæpjuə,ˈpɑ:puɑ:]
How to pronounce Papua in American English:
US [ˈpæpjuə, ˈpɑpuˌɑ]
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- Noun:
- a Pacific island north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; governed by Australia and Indonesia
Word Origin
- Papua
- race that inhabits New Guinea, 1610s, from Malay papuah "frizzled." Related: Papuan.
Example
- 1. Foreign journalists are restricted in their travel to papua .
- 2. Papua is largely off-limits to foreign journalists .
- 3. They include four delias butterfly species from the foja mountains in papua in indonesia .
- 4. After its short-lived independence west papua was temporarily administered by the un and then annexed by indonesia in 1969 .
- 5. Kalimantan is the indonesian portion of borneo while papua is the country 's easternmost province on new guinea island .