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Nouméa city flag, 2011 Small scale map of the city Nouméa ( French pronunciation: [numea] ⓘ ) is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest francophone city in Oceania .
Map of New Caledonia Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia. This article shows a list of cities, towns and villages in New Caledonia. Major cities and towns.
An expandable bathymetric and topographic map of New Caledonia and Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides.Click to enlarge. New Caledonia is made up of a main island, the Grande Terre, and several smaller islands, the Belep archipelago to the north of the Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands to the east of the Grande Terre, the Isle of Pines to the south of the Grande Terre, the Chesterfield Islands ...
New Caledonia also has the world's most divergent lineage of flowering plant, Amborella trichopoda, which is at, or near, the base of the clade of all flowering plants. The world's largest extant species of fern, Cyathea intermedia, also is endemic to New Caledonia. It is very common on acidic soil, usually found on fallow ground or in forest ...
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The location of New Caledonia An enlargeable map of New Caledonia. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to New Caledonia: . New Caledonia [1] – "sui generis collectivity" (in practice an overseas territory) of France, comprising a main island (Grande Terre), the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands. [2]
The largest settlement on Grande Terre is Nouméa, the capital city of New Caledonia.Locals refer to Grande Terre as "Le Caillou", the pebble. [3] The island has a fairly hot and humid climate, though varying as the south-east trade winds bring relatively cool air.
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