New Guinea

New Guinea is the second largest non-continental island in the world (the largest is Greenland), situated to the north of Australia. It is has a north-south border, that divides the island into east and west divisions. The east: Papua New Guinea - an independent state. The west: Papua - the Indonesian half of the island, formerly Irian Jaya This article is a disambiguation page. If you arrived here by following a link from another page you can help by correcting it, so that it points to the appropriate disambiguated page.