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Descriptor English: New Guinea
Descriptor Spanish: Nueva Guinea
Descriptor Nueva Guinea
Scope note: Originalmente una isla del Archipiélago Malayo, la segunda isla en tamaño del mundo. Fue dividida y la Nueva Guinea Occidental se convirtió en parte de Indonesia y la Nueva Guinea Oriental se convirtió en Papúa Nueva Guinea.
Descriptor Portuguese: Nova Guiné
Descriptor French: Nouvelle-Guinée
Tree number(s): Z01.586.650
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009512
Scope note: Originally an island of the Malay Archipelago, the second largest island in the world. It divided, West New Guinea becoming part of Indonesia and East New Guinea becoming Papua New Guinea.
Annotation: East New Guinea is a part of Papua New Guinea & West New Guinea is part of Indonesia
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
DeCS ID: 9699
Unique ID: D009512
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1993/04/22
New Guinea - Preferred
Concept UI M0014792
Scope note Originally an island of the Malay Archipelago, the second largest island in the world. It divided, West New Guinea becoming part of Indonesia and East New Guinea becoming Papua New Guinea.
Preferred term New Guinea



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