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Population of Australia 22.68 million Population of New Zealand 4.433 million

Where did the extra 8.5 million come from?

The poll says Australasia, which includes Papua New Guinea (pop 7.4M), the rest would be from the smaller island nations I guess

Ridiculous to include PNG.

The poll choices are indeed ridiculous.

Hey, man....it's been an ISO/IEC standard since 2004.

Interesting, I didn't know that Papua New Guinea was sometimes/often included in Australasia. It seems that the definition of Australasia differ when talking geopolitically vs Ecologically.

I think it is a mistake to include PNG with Australia/NZ as they are so fundamentally different that to group them together hides interesting information.

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