Wé
Wé is a small town in the commune of Lifou, in the Loyalty Islands Province, New Caledonia. It is located on the east coast of Lifou Island. Wé is the administrative centre of the commune of Lifou as well as the location of the provincial assembly of the Loyalty Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 8,630 residents
- Description: Human settlement in France
- Also known as: “Oué” and “We”
- Postal codes: 98820, 98820, 98884, and 98885
Wé
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, Melanesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-20.91627° or 20° 54′ 59″ southLongitude
167.26434° or 167° 15′ 52″ eastPopulation
8,630Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
5VF937M7+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 291990420OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2137690Wikidata ID
Q1862378
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Urdu—“Wé” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Вэ”
- Cebuano: “Wé (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Wé”
- Chinese: “韦”
- Dutch: “We (Loyaliteitseilanden)”
- Dutch: “Wé”
- French: “Wé”
- Greek: “Ουέ”
- Lithuanian: “Vė”
- Polish: “Wé”
- Swedish: “Wé”
- Urdu: “وئے”
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