No distance at all. Papua New Guinea shares the island of New Guinea with Indonesia.
Indonesia and Papua New Guinea share the island of New Guinea. The Indonesian half is named 'West Irian'.
New Guinea is the name of the island shared by Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Indonesia and the Pacific Ocean
The biggest island is New Guinea (shared with Indonesia)
New Guinea is the largest island (shared by Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) , Borneo is the second (shared by Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei)
Papua, not to be confused with Papua New Guinea, takes up most of the western half of the island of New Guinea, while Papua New Guinea takes up the eastern half. It is a province of Indonesia.
Papua New Guinea
No. Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia.
The 3 islands that are considered as a part of Indonesia are Sunda Islands, Maluku Islands and New Guinea. New Guinea is divided by Indonesian province of West Papua, Papua and Papua New Guinea.
It is the world's second largest island, in the Pacific Ocean just north of Australia. It is politically divided into Papua New Guinea and part of Indonesia. The original Guinea is in the north of Africa. It consists of many provinces and many islands. Its capital is Port Moresby which is located on the large expanse of land that is divided between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is a country.
The world's second largest island is the island of New Guinea, but the island is split between the countries of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and does not have a capital city itself. (The capital of Indonesia is Jakarta and the capital of Papua New Guinea is Port Moresby)