Irian Jaya

[eer-ee-ahn jah-yah]

I·ri·an Ja·ya

[eer-ee-ahn jah-yah]
noun
the W part of the island of New Guinea, formerly a Dutch territory: a province of Indonesia since 1963. 957,000; about 159,000 sq. mi. (411,810 sq. km). Capital: Jayapura.
Formerly, Irian Barat [bahr-aht] , West Irian, Netherlands New Guinea, Dutch New Guinea.
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Irian Jaya has a plethora of syllables.
So is floccinaucinihilipilification. Does it mean:
given to using long words.
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
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Irian Jaya
 
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a former Indonesian name (1973--2001) for Papua

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