Papua New Guinea Etymology
The name of the country Papua New Guinea is as a result of the agglomeration of two terms from different languages.
The term Papua is a Malay word, which describes the hair of the inhabitants of this country, which is usually of a frizzy nature.
New Guinea or Nuevo Guinea was a termed created by the Spanish Explorer Y�igo Ortiz de Retez, who saw the island in the mid 16th century and concluded that there was a similarity between the inhabitants of this island and those people in the Guinea coast of West Africa.