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Nouméa city flag, 2011 Small scale map of the city. Nouméa (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest francophone city in Oceania.
La Tontouta International Airport, also known as Nouméa – La Tontouta International Airport (French: Aéroport de Nouméa - La Tontouta; IATA: NOU, ICAO: NWWW), is the main international airport in New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, as well as the military base (Base aérienne 186 Nouméa) for the French Air Force based in New Caledonia.
The administrative services of the French state, however, are located in La Foa, with a Deputy Commissioner of the Republic (commissaire délégué de la République), akin to a subprefect of metropolitan France, in residence there. La Foa was chosen by the French central State in the late 1980s to counterbalance the overwhelming weight of ...
Dumbéa (French pronunciation:, Ndrumbea:) is a commune in the suburbs of Nouméa in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
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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 ...
The Amédée Lighthouse (French: Phare Amédée) is an iron lighthouse located on Amédée Island in New Caledonia, 24 kilometres (15 mi; 13 nmi) from Nouméa on Grande Terre. [ 1 ] The metal components were made by Rigolet in North-East Paris in 1862 and the tower was constructed in Paris as a demonstration. [ 2 ]
"Broussards" at an agricultural show. A majority of Caldoche people tend to live in the capital Nouméa and the surrounding areas of the South Province. There are also significant Caldoche communities located in Bourail, Boulouparis, La Foa, Le Mont-Dore, with the Caldoche also making up a majority of the population in Farino.