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When you talk about Papua New Guinea, people may say, oh, is that the place where:

There are nearly distinct 1000 languages spoken, about 12% of all the languages on earth, and by far the most language diversity in the world

Nobody is sure if its population is 10 million or 17 million

They were having bow and arrow battles as late as 1963:

People still shoot arrows at each other in urban centres

The capital is the most dangerous city in the world