Mek (tribe)
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The Mek are a Papua
n people of Papua, Western New Guinea
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A television series on The Discovery Channel entitled "Living with the Mek" (US) was shown in 2008.
Papua
Papua was the name, as provided to the Portuguese commander Jorge de Meneses while sheltering there in 1526, of the people living on Waigeo, one of the Raja Ampat Islands west of the Vogelkop Peninsula, now part of the West Papua province of Indonesia. The Spanish pilot Martin de Uriarte in the...
n people of Papua, Western New Guinea
Western New Guinea
West Papua informally refers to the Indonesian western half of the island of New Guinea and other smaller islands to its west. The region is officially administered as two provinces: Papua and West Papua. The eastern half of New Guinea is Papua New Guinea.The population of approximately 3 million...
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A television series on The Discovery Channel entitled "Living with the Mek" (US) was shown in 2008.