Worth knowing
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has about 840 living languages, more than one in every ten spoken on Earth. To talk across them, most people use Tok Pisin, a creole that grew out of English.
Where its story happens
Port Moresby, at 9.44°S, 147.18°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Papua New Guinea
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Papua New Guinea, just north of Australia. See Papua New Guinea on a map.
- It shares its island, the second-largest on Earth, with Indonesia.
- Until the 1930s, a million people in its highlands were unknown to the outside world.
- It is home to one of the few poisonous birds in the world.
- More languages are spoken here than in any other country: more than 800.