Papua New Guinea: 22 provinces, states and territories
Every administrative level, from the 22 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.
Papua New Guinea by province, state and territory
22 first-level units and 87 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.
Every administrative level of Papua New Guinea
Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.
- ADM1
- 22 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
- ADM2
- 87 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
- ADM3
- 326 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
All 22 first-level units
Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.
Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
| Unit | Code | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomous Region of Bougainville | PG-NSB | 285,488 | 299,076 | 9,438 | 30 | 2.9% | 6,253 |
| Central Province | PG-CPM | 287,796 | 392,541 | 29,681 | 10 | 2.9% | 33,109 |
| Chimbu (Simbu) Province | PG-CPK | 693,778 | 596,150 | 6,157 | 113 | 7.1% | 0 |
| East New Britain Province | PG-EBR | 270,299 | 395,570 | 15,356 | 18 | 2.8% | 703 |
| East Sepik Province | PG-ESW | 556,006 | 542,207 | 43,753 | 13 | 5.7% | 36,344 |
| Eastern Highlands Province | PG-EHG | 839,998 | 819,112 | 11,197 | 75 | 8.6% | 0 |
| Enga Province | PG-EPW | 770,311 | 686,768 | 11,773 | 65 | 7.9% | 0 |
| Gulf Province | PG-GPK | 121,706 | 254,574 | 34,634 | 4 | 1.2% | 15,007 |
| Hela Province | PG-HLA* | 770,397 | 531,259 | 9,806 | 79 | 7.9% | 0 |
| Jiwaka Province | PG-JWK* | 694,410 | 721,283 | 4,886 | 142 | 7.1% | 0 |
| Madang Province | PG-MPM | 564,179 | 553,339 | 29,064 | 19 | 5.8% | 24,879 |
| Manus Province | PG-MRL | 22,378 | 38,885 | 2,141 | 10 | 0.2% | 2,114 |
| Milne Bay Province | PG-MBA | 206,634 | 234,472 | 14,265 | 14 | 2.1% | 18,392 |
| Morobe Province | PG-MPL | 773,468 | 803,434 | 33,930 | 23 | 7.9% | 25,495 |
| National Capital District | PG-NCD | 519,876 | 432,546 | 267 | 1,947 | 5.3% | 20,182 |
| New Ireland Province | PG-NIK | 130,173 | 196,681 | 9,612 | 14 | 1.3% | 1,726 |
| Northern (Oro) Province | PG-NPP | 238,389 | 240,833 | 22,705 | 10 | 2.4% | 1,881 |
| Southern Highlands Province | PG-SHM | 792,543 | 739,549 | 15,886 | 50 | 8.1% | 0 |
| West New Britain Province | PG-WBK | 268,945 | 313,167 | 20,452 | 13 | 2.7% | 7,040 |
| West Sepik (Sandaun) Province | PG-SAN | 250,415 | 285,787 | 36,046 | 7 | 2.6% | 3,329 |
| Western Highlands Province | PG-WPD | 540,609 | 543,454 | 4,265 | 127 | 5.5% | 0 |
| Western Province | PG-WHM | 212,143 | 247,820 | 98,545 | 2 | 2.2% | 28,765 |
Subnational risk products
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PNG ADM1, source: Papua New Guinea National Statistics Office, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PNG ADM2, source: OCHA ROAP, Papua New Guinea National Statistics Office, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
- ADM3 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PNG ADM3, source: Papua New Guinea National Statistics Office, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
- Basemap
- OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
- Terrain
- Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
- People
- GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
- Lande
- Natural Earth (public domain).
- Elevation
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
- Position
- Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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