Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Papua New Guinea Review for Test

Papua New Guinea
  • Growth rate is 6.2% there economy is growing very quickly.  It is booming.
  • Import from U.S.A, China, Japan, Australia, and Singapore. 
  • They export gold, oil, copper, silver, logs, palm oil, coffee, cocoa,  crayfish, and prawns.
  • Also import machinery, food, chemicals, oil, and technology.
  • They mine gold, copper, silver, crude oil, petroleum production, construction, tourism, copra crushing, palm oil production, plywood production, wood chop production.
  • They have many languages:
    • Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu, and around 860 native languages
  • Religions: 
    • catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, many native beliefs, etc. 
  • Overwhelmingly Christian
  • Communications:
    • 2 tv stations
    • 3 radio
    • 60,000 landlines
    • 900,000 cellphone
    • They have satellite and cable
    • 125,00 internet users
    • 4285 internet hosts
  • Transportation
    • 563 airports
    • 9, km of roads
    • 2 helicopters
    • Airports only have 21 paved runways





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