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Territory of New Guinea

1920 – 1948
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Australian-administered League of Nations (later UN trust) mandate over the former German New Guinea — Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the North Solomons — created in 1920 after Germany's Versailles cession.

United administratively with the Territory of Papua in 1949 to form the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, later independent Papua New Guinea (1975).

Borders in 1920 · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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