Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 240V, 50Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Papua New Guinea
- +675
What every visitor should know about Papua New Guinea:
- Money
- The currency is the Papua New Guinean kina (PGK). 1 PGK is worth about US$0.39, or €0.27.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 2 out of 5 (Use caution)
Areas of concern:
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Armed robbery is frequent
- Carjacking
- Banditry on rural roads
- Capital
- Port Moresby
- Tap water
- Unsafe. Water purification efforts are inadequate to guarantee safe supply. Drink boiled or bottled water whenever possible.
Papua New Guinea facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 6,057,263
- Language
- Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region
- Ethnicity
- Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian
Economy
- GDP
- US$2,300 (per capita)
- Income equality
- Low