Nueva Guinea

Definitions of Nueva Guinea
  1. noun
    a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea
    synonyms: Papua
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    isla
    a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
  2. noun
    a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations
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    estado
    the territory occupied by a nation
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