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HTML

<table border="1">

    <tr><td width="1px">Papua New Guinea:</td><td >Goroka</td></tr>
    <tr><td colSpan="2">this is a looo ooooo oooo oooong text</td></tr>
</table>

CSS

td {
    white-space: nowrap
}