western Africa
Guinea, country of western Africa, located on the Atlantic coast. Three of western Africa’s major rivers—the Gambia, the Niger, and the Sénégal—rise in Guinea.

Guinea Highlands, French Dorsale Guinéenne, mountainous plateau extending from the southern Fouta Djallon highlands through southeastern Guinea, northern Sierra Leone and Liberia, and northwestern Côte d’Ivoire.

The New Guinea Highlands, also known as the Central Range or Central Cordillera, is a long chain of mountain ranges on the island of New Guinea, including the island’s tallest peak, Puncak Jaya 16,024 ft (4,884 m), the highest mountain in Oceania.

seven provinces
To the north lies the Highlands Region, an east-west zone of mountains with elevations in excess of 13,000 feet (4,000 metres). This region has seven provinces – Southern Highlands, Enga Province, Western Highlands, Simbu, Eastern Highlands – including Hela and Jiwaka.

The two landmasses became separated when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the end of the last glacial period. Anthropologically, New Guinea is considered part of Melanesia.

Guinea’s mineral wealth makes it potentially one of continent’s richest countries, but its people are among the poorest in West Africa.

New Guinea is the second largest island in the world, exceeded in size only by Greenland. It is about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) long (from northwest to southeast) and about 400 miles (650 km) wide at its widest (north to south) part. Area island, 317,150 square miles (821,400 square km).

A mountainous zone called the Highlands, extending from the west to the southeast, occupies the central part of the island of New Guinea.

Highlands or uplands are any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically up to 500–600 m (1,600–2,000 ft). Highland (or highlands) is usually reserved for ranges of low mountains.

The four regions are:

• Highlands Region: Simbu, Eastern Highlands, Enga, Hela, Jiwaka, Southern Highlands, and Western Highlands.
• Islands Region: East New Britain, Manus, New Ireland, Bougainville (North Solomons), and West New Britain.
• Momase Region: East Sepik, Madang, Morobe, and West Sepik (Sandaun).

New Guinea is administratively divided into two parts: its western half comprises the Indonesian propinsi (or provinsi; provinces) of Papua and West Papua (collectively, formerly called Irian Jaya); and its eastern half comprises the major part of Papua New Guinea, an independent country since 1975. …

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a resource-rich country, yet almost 40 percent of the population lives in poverty. Chronic problems continued to plague the criminal justice system in PNG, including abuses by police. Overcrowding and dire prison conditions led to prison breakouts.

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The Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is occupied by the ► Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya). It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean,…

Administrative map of Papua New Guinea (2004), with names of archipelagos, and the former subdivision into 20 provinces, including the capital district and the former province (now an autonomous region) of Bougainville (Northern Solomons).