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The Western Papua, officially the Independent Papuan State was a constituent state of the Hesperonesian Federation between 1945 and 1988. Established on 26 August 1945 following the Japanese surrender in the aftermath of the Hespero-Japan War, it has the shortest duration in being a constituent country until it gained independence by a referendum in 1988. The country was at the westernmost region of Hesperonesia, having bordered with the Australian territory of Papua New Guinea and held the largest mining site in the world, the Grasberg mining site. After a referendum held in 1988, Western Papua became a sovereign sate on 27 January 1988, making it the first state to seceede from Hesperonesia.