Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬
Papua New Guinea is part of Oceania with main city at
Port Moresby. It's usually 🌤️ 25.73 °C in Papua New Guinea with a rainfall of 🌧 312.30 mm. Internet speed in Papua New Guinea is on average 3.5 Mbps. In Papua New Guinea you drive on the left side. Its Developing country with a
population of 8M people. The main currency is Kina. The languages
spoken are English. Automatic teller machines are rare in Papua New Guinea. Current travel safety advice is Exercise a high degree of caution. Get other useful information like socket plugs, SIM cards and emergency numbers.
👍 Developing 🌤️ ~25.73 °C 🌧 ~312.30 mm 👨👩👦👦 8M people
Advice
Weather 🛡️ Travel safety
fiber_manual_record Exercise a high degree of caution
PNG has implemented enhanced screening procedures and entry restrictions in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. If you have travelled to mainland China within 14 days of your arrival in PNG you will be denied entry. Contact your airline or your nearest embassy or consulate of Papua New Guinea to confirm visa and entry requirements. See Travel. We haven’t changed our level of advice: Exercise a high degree of caution in PNG overall. Higher levels apply in some parts of the country.
issued date: February 19, 2020
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General
🔌 Sockets
Papua New Guinea uses 240V, 50Hz with socket and plug Type I.
🌐 Languages
The languages that are typically spoken are English
💱 Currencies Used
Papua New Guinea uses the Papua New Guinean kina (symbol: K), code PGK.Banknotes come in denominations of 100, 50, 20, 10, 5 and 2 kinas. Kina is subdivided into 100 toeas. Coins come in denominations of 1 kina and 50, 20, 10 and 5 toeas.
🏧 ATMs
Automatic teller machines are rare in Papua New Guinea. Your best bet is to look for them in large cities and community places.You do not need a chip & PIN card to use an ATM — your standard magnetic card will work fine.
Calling
📡 Internet
Internet speed in Papua New Guinea is on average 3.5 Mbps. WiFi coverage in Papua New Guinea is very low. It's quite hard to find one.
📱 Phones
You can buy a SIM card for about 132.48 PGK, which includes 2 GB of data plan. You can choose from 3 telecoms: Digicel, Telikom PNG or bmobile-Vodafone. Papua New Guinea uses GSM mobile networks GSM 900. If you don't want to buy SIM card in Papua New Guinea upon arrival, make sure to check the roaming charges with your telecom provider before your departure so there are no surprises when you return home.
📞 Calling
To call Papua New Guinea, dial +, then 675 (the country code for Papua New Guinea), then the area code and the local number. For local calls within Papua New Guinea, start with the area code. In the case above area code is 53 .
🛣️ Road rules
In Papua New Guinea you drive on the left side. Most cars have manual transmission (stick). Unless otherwise posted, the speed limits for cars and motorcycles are as follows: 60 km/h (37 mph) in all built-up areas and 75 km/h (46 mph) on undivided highways.
🆘 Emergency
Universal
999
Police
999
Ambulance
999
Fire department
999
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