Papuan people

indigenous inhabitants of New Guinea
Intangible ethnic_group Q424129
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Papuan people

Summary

Papuan people is an ethnic group[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,119 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Papuan people's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[3].
  • The location of Papuan people was New Guinea[4].
  • Papuan people's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Papuan people[5].
  • Papuan people's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[6].
  • Papuan people's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[7].
  • Papuan people's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[8].
  • Papuan people's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • Papuan people's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[10].
  • Papuan people's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • Papuan people's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Papuan people's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Papuan people's different from is recorded as Papua New Guineans[14].

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Definition and Type

Papuan people's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[3].

Why It Matters

Papuan people ranks in the top 4% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,119 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id 0370449-Papuanci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0370449-Papuanci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  2. 7d ago · Bekipediya · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category Category:Papuan people
    Instance of
    Instance of ethnic group
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 2706059
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q65287836 */"
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