Papua New Guinea

The country calling code for Papua New Guinea is +675. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Papua New Guinea number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Papua New Guinea is assigned PG as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and PNG as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Papua New Guinea is .pg. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Papua New Guinea is the Papua New Guinean kina, with the ISO 4217 code PGK and the symbol K. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Papua New Guinea are quoted in PGK. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Papua New Guinea is +10:00, currently UTC+10:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Papua New Guinea is Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea sits in Oceania, specifically the Melanesia subregion. Its approximate centre point is -6.00000000, 147.00000000. Traffic in Papua New Guinea drives on the left. Languages recorded for Papua New Guinea: English.

Papua New Guinea shares a land border with 1 country: Indonesia. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.