The territory of Papua New Guinea is divided between two continents , Oceania and Asia , which makes it a transcontinental country .
Papua New Guinea ( PNG ; , ; ; Hiri Motu : Papua Niu Gini ) , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea , is an transcontinental country in the Oceania and an Asian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia , a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia .
Papua New Guinea