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   Note: This section last updated 30th May 2021

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 30th May 2021

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   14:32

Papua New Guinea has 817 languages, many spoken by relatively small numbers of people. The official language is English (50 000 speakers). Other national languages are Hiri Motu (120 000 mostly second-language speakers) and Tok Pisin (Pidgin English, with some 2 000 000 mainly second-language speakers). The other main languages are: Enga (164 750 speakers); Hamtai (40 000 speakers); Huli (70000 speakers); Kamano (70 000 speakers); Kuanua (61 000 speakers); Kuman (Simbu) (80 000 speakers); Medlpa (130 000 speakers); Sinasina (50 079 speakers) and Wahgi (60 000 speakers).

Women tend to take their husband’s names upon marriage but retain their own after their husband’s name preceded by née:

   Mrs Josepha Eafere née Temu

Children often do not take their parent’s family name but may be given the name of a warrior uncle or the best fisherman in the villlage, so that siblings do not necessarily share names.

Tribal heads should be addressed as Big Man followed by the family name.

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

Addresses are usually written in English. Addresses may be street or post office box addresses, and may contain a province name.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is written PO Box.

   Note: This section last updated 6th September 2020

Papua New Guinea has Postal Codes with the format:

   999

but these are rarely used. They are written on the same line as, and after, the postal town name. The postal codes currently range from 111 to 641. Letters found after (or sometimes before) the postal code are province abbreviations.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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Papua New Guinea - Postal code format

Papua New Guinea - Postal code specifics

Papua New Guinea - Postal code regular expression

Papua New Guinea - Postal code level of coverage

Papua New Guinea - Postal code map

   Note: This section last updated 23rd May 2014

Refer to Exonyms in Papua New Guinea for full lists of place names in Papua New Guinea in other languages.

Papua New Guinea has 22 provinces :

Province	Postal code range
Bougainville (North Solomons)	35
Central	15-16
Chimbu	46
Eastern Highlands	44
East New Britain	61
East Sepik	53
Enga	29
Gulf	31
Hela	25-26 (shared with Southern Highlands)
Jiwaka	28 (shared with Western Highlands)
Madang	51-52
Manus	64
Milne Bay	21-22
Morobe	41-43
National Capital District	11-13
New Ireland	63
Northern	24
Sandaun (West Sepik)	55
Southern Highlands	25-26 (shared with Hela)
Western	33
Western Highlands	28 (shared with Jiwaka)
West New Britain	62

   This regions/postal code data can be acquired as a data file 

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   Note: This section last updated 11th January 2021

Papuan telephone numbers have no area codes. Landline subscriber numbers have 7 digits, mobile numbers 8 digits. Mobile numbers begin with a 7 or 88.

   Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm