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=== Papua New Guinea === [[Papua New Guinea]] has one of the most [[heterogeneous]] [[indigenous population|indigenous populations]] in the world: there are several thousand separate [[communities]], most with only a few hundred people.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Fearon|first=James D.|author-link=James Fearon|title=Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country|journal=[[Journal of Economic Growth]]|url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/fearon-research/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ethnic-and-Cultural-Diversity-by-Country.pdf|date=1 June 2003|volume=8|issue=2|pages=195β222|doi=10.1023/A:1024419522867|s2cid=152680631|access-date=29 December 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref>{{rp|p=205}} This [[Oceanian]] country is home to over eight million people<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DataQuery/|title=World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations|website=esa.un.org|access-date=6 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919061238/https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DataQuery/|archive-date=19 September 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> that are divided into hundreds of different indigenous ethnic groups and cultures with over 820 different indigenous languages.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PG|title=Papua New Guinea|work=Ethnologue|access-date=6 July 2018|language=en}}</ref> A majority of the indigenous groups are [[Indigenous people of New Guinea|Papuans]] who have ancestors that lived in New Guinea over ten thousand years ago. The latter majority are [[Austronesian peoples|Austronesians]] whose ancestors arrived less than four thousand years ago. The island's population is also made up of many [[expatriate]] [[citizens]] from [[China]], [[Australia]], [[Indonesia]], [[Europe]] and the [[Philippines]]. In 1975, the island population was found to be made up of 40,000 of these diverse expatriate citizens.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Papua-New-Guinea|title=Papua New Guinea {{!}} Culture, History, & People|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=11 July 2018|language=en}}</ref> Despite the large amount of culturally diverse locations on the island, the [[Kuk Early Agricultural Site]] is the only [[UNESCO]] World heritage location.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/PG|title=Papua New Guinea |work= UNESCO World Heritage Centre|language=en|access-date=28 July 2018}}</ref>
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