Geographicals

New Guinea

Originally an island of the Malay Archipelago, the second largest island in the world. It divided, West New Guinea becoming part of Indonesia and East New Guinea becoming Papua New Guinea.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Originally an island of the Malay Archipelago, the second largest island in the world. It divided, West New Guinea becoming part of Indonesia and East New Guinea becoming Papua New Guinea.

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Aspects Covered

2 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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Indexing Annotation

East New Guinea is a part of Papua New Guinea & West New Guinea is part of Indonesia

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  1. Z01w.586.650w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. New Guinea. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009512. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009512
  2. New Guinea. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea
  3. New Guinea. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40285