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Vatican City is a city-state within Italy and the seat of Roman Catholicism

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With its 6,552,730 people, Papua New Guinea is the 105th largest country in the world by population. It is the 55th largest country in the world by area with 462,840 square kilometers.

The eastern half of the island of New Guinea - second largest in the world - was divided between Germany (north) and the UK (south) in 1885. The latter area was transferred to Australia in 1902, which occupied the northern portion during World War I and continued to administer the combined areas until independence in 1975. A nine-year secessionist revolt on the island of Bougainville ended in 1997 after claiming some 20,000 lives.

Languages spoken: Tok Pisin (official), English (official), Hiri Motu (official), some 836 indigenous languages spoken (about 12% of the world's total); most languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers

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