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Map of Papua New Guinea Share of forest area in total land area, top countries (2021). Papua New Guinea has the eighth highest percentage of forest cover in the world. At 462,840 km 2 (178,704 sq mi), Papua New Guinea is the world's 54th-largest country and the third-largest island country. [14]
Deforestation by continent. In decades since 1990, South America and Africa have shown the greatest loss of forest area, with global net loss in the 2010s still about 60% of the 1990s value. [1] Rates and causes of deforestation vary from region to region around the world. In 2009, two-thirds of the world's forests were located in just 10 ...
The Asia–Pacific ( APAC) [ 1] is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean. The region's precise boundaries vary depending on context, but countries and territories in Australasia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia are often included. In a wider context, Central Asia, North Asia, the Pacific Islands, South Asia, West Asia ...
Countries fall into four broad categories based on their HDI: very high, high, medium, and low human development. Currently, no Oceanian country falls into the low human development category while Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen are the only Asian countries which fall into this category. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist ...
A ‘conservation-dependent species’. While Thailand’s success story offers hope, the outlook across the region is not so optimistic. Once widespread across Southeast Asia, tigers became ...
1999 (23rd Session) Lorentz National Park is an Indonesian national park located in the provinces of Central Papua, Highland Papua and South Papua, in the southwest of western New Guinea. With an area of 25,056 km 2 (9,674 mi 2 ), it is the largest national park in Southeast Asia. In 1999 Lorentz was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .
Secret Beach in Koh Pha-ngan, [24] Chan Resort in Pattaya, [25] Oriental Village (closed) Chiang Mai, [26] Phuan Naturist Village (closed) outside of Sattahip, [27] Lemon Tree Resort (closed) in Phuket. Barefeet in Bangkok. NF Camp (closed) in Phetchaburi [28] Oriental Beach Village on the island of Koh Kho Khao. [29]
Japan is an archipelagic country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) along the Pacific coast of East Asia. [8] It consists of 14,125 islands. [9] [10] The four main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. The other 14,120 islands are classified as "remote islands" by the Japanese government.