| Embassy of Papua New Guinea, Washington, D.C. | |
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| Coordinates | 38°54′31.88″N77°2′28.42″W / 38.9088556°N 77.0412278°W Coordinates: 38°54′31.88″N77°2′28.42″W / 38.9088556°N 77.0412278°W |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Address | 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. |
| Ambassador | Rupa Abraham Mulina |
The Embassy of Papua New Guinea in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea to the United States. It is located at 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., Suite 805, in the Embassy Row neighborhood, near Dupont Circle. [1]
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from one state or an organisation present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation officially in the receiving state. In practice, a diplomatic mission usually denotes the resident mission, namely the embassy, which is the main office of a country's diplomatic representatives to another country, usually but not necessarily the receiving state's capital city. Consulates, on the other hand, are smaller diplomatic missions which are normally located outside the capital of the receiving state. As well as being a diplomatic mission to the country in which it is situated, it may also be a non-resident permanent mission to one or more other countries. There are thus resident and non-resident embassies.
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian 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. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.
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The Ambassador is Rupa Abraham Mulina. [2]
