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Papua New Guinea
STATUS OF THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA
From 16.09.1975 until 30.01.1980 (after independence), it was a foreign country known as Papua New Guinea.
From 31.01.1980 until the present day, it was an independent Commonwealth country. Click here for more information about the consequences of being born in a Commonwealth country.
From 17.12.1920 until 12.12.1946, New Guinea was an Australian mandated territory in which the Crown exercised extra-territorial jurisdiction.
Between 13.12.1946 and 15.09.1975, it was an Australian Trust Territory in which the Crown exercised extra-territorial jurisdiction.
From 1888 until 1906, Papua was part of the Crown’s Dominions.
Thereafter, it was part of Australia until it combined with New Guinea on 15.09.1975 to form Papua New Guinea.
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