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Terrain: mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills

Natural resources: gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries

Location: Oceania, group of islands including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia

Birth Rate: 26.95 births/1,000 population

Death Rate: 6.62 deaths/1,000 population

Life expectancy: 65.99 years in total.

Male: 63.78 years

Female: 68.31 years

TFR: 3.54 children born/woman

Languages: Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu

Religions: Roman Catholic 27%, Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 10%, Pentecostal 8.6%, Evangelical Alliance 5.2%, Anglican 3.2%, Baptist 2.5%, other Protestant 8.9%, Bahai 0.3%, indigenous beliefs and other 3.3%

Median age: total- 21.6 years, male- 21.9 years, female- 21.3 years

Government type: constitutional parliamentary democracy and a Commonwealth realm

Capital: Port Moresby

Independence: They gained their independence on September 16, 1975

Population below Poverty Line: About 37%