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2 Vital statistics. 3 Ethnic groups. 4 Languages. ... Download QR code; Print/export ... Population of New Caledonia according to ethnic group 1963-2019; Ethnic group
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in New Caledonia" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 ...
The earliest traces of human settlement in New Caledonia go back to the Lapita culture, about 3000 BP, i.e. 1000 BCE. [2] [3] In addition, Polynesian seafarers have intermarried with the Kanaks over the last centuries. [4] [5] New Caledonia was annexed to France in 1853, and became an overseas territory of France in 1956. An independence ...
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
New Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) [nb 2] is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 220 km (140 mi) southwest of Vanuatu and 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia. [5]
Street sign in French, Nouméa. New Caledonia's population is constituted of numerous ethnic groups, but most residents are of Kanak, European or mixed origin. Nowadays, there are about 30 Melanesian languages spoken in the territory, as well as languages peculiar to the immigrant populations (Javanese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Chinese, Indian (Hindi), Filipino and others).
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