Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬
Papua New Guinea is part of Oceania with main city at
Port Moresby. Its Developing country with a
population of 8M people. The main currency is Kina. The languages
spoken are English. Independent State of Papua New Guinea is the formal name of Papua New Guinea It is adviced to High degree of caution Get useful information like travel advice, temperatures, rainfall, socket plugs,
languages spoken, SIM cards, ATM, currencies, road rules and emergency numbers.
👍 Developing 🌤️ ~25.89 °C 🌧 ~289.63 mm 👨👩👦👦 8M people
Advice
Weather ⚠️ Travel advice
fiber_manual_record High degree of caution
Voting in the Bougainville referendum will take place from 23 November to 7 December, with a 2 week period for counting to follow. Avoid political gatherings before, during and after the referendum. If you are travelling to Bougainville, check your flight and accommodation bookings with your travel provider (see Safety and security). We haven't changed the level - exercise a high degree of caution in PNG. Higher levels apply in some parts of the country. Reconsider your need to travel to Porgera Township. Reconsider your need to travel to Tari in Hela Province.
issued date: November 20, 2019
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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.
📡 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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