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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.
It is located in the region of Melanesia in the southwest Pacific. At about half the size of Taiwan, it has a land area of 18,575.5 square kilometres (7,172 sq mi). The population was 244,600 inhabitants as of January 2008 official estimates. [3] The capital and largest city of the territory is Nouméa. The currency is the CFP franc.
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.
Each episode features a host, called a traveller, who travels with a camera crew to a country/major city and experiences the sights, sounds, and culture that the location has to offer. Special episodes feature in-depth looks at beaches, apes, nature, road trips , Chinatown , trekking , sacred places , slave trade , piracy, volcanos, war ...
The island is located roughly 1,300 kilometres (810 mi; 700 nmi) east of Australia. [4] Grande Terre is oriented northwest-to-southeast; its area is 16,372 square kilometres (6,321 square miles). It is nearly 400 kilometres (250 miles) in length and 50–70 km (30–40 mi) wide in most places.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. BBC news programme World News Today Final title card, used from 2019 to 2020. Created by BBC World News Presented by Philippa Thomas Karin Giannone Kasia Madera (Fri) Alpa Patel (Sat-Sun) Country of origin United Kingdom Original language English Production Production locations Studio C ...
The World Today, styled also as The World Today with Maryam Moshiri is a news programme that premiered on both UK feed and international feed of BBC News channel on 21 February 2024. The programme is mainly hosted by Maryam Moshiri. The show, dedicated to international news is said to "bring the best of the BBC's global journalism to audiences ...
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 ...