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New Caledonia

New Caledonia is a dependent overseas territory of lying in the western , in the Coral Sea, to the east of and west of .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Nouméa and Loyalty Islands.

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is the largest city in and capital of New Caledonia, lying on the main island of . One of the most westernised cities in the Pacific Islands, it features beautiful beaches and colonial mansions and is not yet a heavily touristed destination.

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Province is one of the three top-level administrative subdivisions of New Caledonia. It encompasses the archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, located northeast of the New Caledonian mainland of .

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The is an island in the Pacific Ocean, in the archipelago of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of . The island is part of the commune of , in the of New Caledonia.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Grande Terre and Chesterfield Islands.

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Grand Terre is the main island in New Caledonia. It is one of the largest islands in the Pacific. The barrier reef lying off New Caledonia is second only to the in size.

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The are a French archipelago of New Caledonia located in the Coral Sea, 550 km northwest of , the main island of New Caledonia.

New Caledonia

Latitude of center
-21.4° or 21° 24′ south
Longitude of center
165.5° or 165° 30′ east
Population
284,000
Area
19,060 km² (7,359 miles²)
Elevation
87 metres (285 feet)
Capital
Noumea
Currency
Franc (XPF)
Phone code
.nc
Internet domain
687
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1367931778
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Geo­Names ID
2139685
Wiki­data ID
Q33788
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“New Caledonia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kaledonia Barô”
  • Afrikaans: “Nieu-Caledonië”
  • Afrikaans: “Nieu-Kaledonië”
  • Akan: “Kaledonia Foforo”
  • Albanian: “Kaledoni e Re”
  • Albanian: “Kaledonia e Re”
  • Amharic: “ኑቨል ካሌዶኒ”
  • Amharic: “ኒው ካሌዶኒያ”
  • Angika: “नया कैलेडोनिया”
  • Arabic: “كاليدونيا الجديدة”
  • Arabic: “كاليدونيا الجديده”
  • Arabic: “كاناكي”
  • Arabic: “نيو كاليدونيا”
  • Arabic: “نيوكاليدونيا”
  • Aragonese: “Nueba Caledonia”
  • Aragonese: “Nueva Caledonia”
  • Aragonese: “Nueva Caledonya”
  • Armenian: “Նոր Կալեդոնիա”
  • Arpitan: “Novèla-Calèdonie”
  • Assamese: “নিউ কেলিডোনিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Nueva Caledonia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yeni Kaledoniya”
  • Balinese: “Kalédonia Anyar”
  • Bambara: “Kaledoni Koura”
  • Bashkir: “Яңы Каледония”
  • Basque: “Kaledonia Berri”
  • Basque: “Kaledonia Berria”
  • Basque: “Kanakia”
  • Basque: “Kanaky”
  • Basque: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Belarusian: “Новая Каледонія”
  • Bengali: “নতুন ক্যালিডোনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “নিউ ক্যালেডোনিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “কালেডোনিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Nova Kaledonija”
  • Breton: “Kaledonia Nevez”
  • Breton: “Kaledonia-Nevez”
  • Breton: “Kanaky”
  • Bulgarian: “Нова Каледония”
  • Burmese: “နယူး ကယ်လီဒိုနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “နယူးကလီဒိုနီးယား”
  • Catalan: “Canàquia”
  • Catalan: “Nova Caledonia”
  • Catalan: “Nova Caledònia”
  • Cebuano: “New Caledonia”
  • Central Bikol: “Nueva Kaledonya”
  • Chechen: “Керла Каледони”
  • Cherokee: “ᎢᏤᎧᎵᏙᏂᎠᏂ”
  • Cheyenne: “New Caledonia”
  • Chinese: “New Caledonia”
  • Chinese: “新克里多尼亞”
  • Chinese: “新卡里多尼亞”
  • Chinese: “新喀爾多尼亞”
  • Chinese: “新喀里多尼亚”
  • Chinese: “新喀里多尼亚岛”
  • Chinese: “新喀里多尼亚群岛”
  • Chinese: “新喀里多尼亞”
  • Cornish: “Kelesoni Nowydh”
  • Cornish: “Kelesoni Nowyth”
  • Corsican: “Nova Caledonia”
  • Croatian: “Collectivité sui generis”
  • Croatian: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Croatian: “Nova Kaledonija”
  • Croatian: “Nova Keledonija”
  • Czech: “FR-NC”
  • Czech: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Czech: “Nová Kaledonie”
  • Danish: “Ny Caledonien”
  • Danish: “Ny Kaledonien”
  • Dhivehi: “ނިއު ކެލެޑޯނިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kaledonya Newiye”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kaledonyaya Newiye”
  • Dutch: “NC”
  • Dutch: “NCL”
  • Dutch: “Nieuw-Caledonie (gebiedsdeel)”
  • Dutch: “Nieuw-Caledonië”
  • Dzongkha: “ནིའུ་ཀ་ལི་དོ་ནི་ཡ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاليدونيا الجديده”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيو كاليدونيا”
  • Esperanto: “NC”
  • Esperanto: “Nov-Kaledonio”
  • Esperanto: “Nova Kaledonio”
  • Esperanto: “Novkaledonio”
  • Estonian: “Uus Kaledoonia”
  • Estonian: “Uus-Kaledoonia”
  • Ewe: “New Kaledonia nutome”
  • Faroese: “Nýkaledónia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “New Caledonia”
  • Finnish: “Uusi Kaledonia”
  • Finnish: “Uusi-Kaledonia”
  • French: “Calédonie”
  • French: “Kanaky / Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • French: “Kanaky Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • French: “Kanaky-Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • French: “Kanaky”
  • French: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • French: “Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et dépendances”
  • French: “Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances”
  • French: “Territoire des Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances”
  • Fulah: “Nuwel Kaledonii”
  • Gagauz: “Eni Kaledoniya”
  • Galician: “Nova Caledonia”
  • Ganda: “Kaledonya mupya”
  • Georgian: “ახალი კალედონია”
  • German: “FR-PF”
  • German: “Kanaky”
  • German: “NC”
  • German: “Neu-Kaledonien”
  • German: “Neukaledonien”
  • German: “New Caledonia”
  • German: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Greek: “Νέα Καληδονία”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Nouvèl-Kalédonni”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યુ કેલેડોનિયા”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યુ સેલેડોનિયા”
  • Haitian: “Nouvèl Kaledoni”
  • Hakka Chinese: “New Caledonia”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sîn Khak-lî-tô-nì-â”
  • Hausa: “Kaledoniya Sabuwa”
  • Hawaiian: “Nū Kaledonia”
  • Hebrew: “ניו קלדוניה”
  • Hebrew: “קלדוניה החדשה”
  • Hindi: “नया कैलेडोनिया”
  • Hindi: “न्यू कैलेडोनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Kanaky”
  • Hungarian: “Le caillou”
  • Hungarian: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Hungarian: “Új-Kaledónia”
  • Icelandic: “Nýja Kaledónía”
  • Icelandic: “Nýja-Kaledónía”
  • Ido: “Nov-Kaledonia”
  • Ido: “Nova-Kaledonia”
  • Igbo: “New Caledonia”
  • Iloko: “Baro a Caledonia”
  • Inari Sami: “Uđđâ-Kaledonia”
  • Indonesian: “Kaledonia Baru”
  • Indonesian: “New Caledonia”
  • Interlingua: “Nove Caledonia”
  • Interlingue: “Nov-Caledonia”
  • Irish: “an Nua-Chaladóin”
  • Irish: “An Nua-Chaladóin”
  • Italian: “Canachia”
  • Italian: “Kanaky”
  • Italian: “Nuova Caledonia”
  • Japanese: “カナキー”
  • Japanese: “カレドニア”
  • Japanese: “ニューカレドニア”
  • Japanese: “ニューカレドニア島”
  • Japanese: “ヌーヴェル=カレドニー”
  • Japanese: “ヌーヴェルカレドニー”
  • Japanese: “ヌーベルカレドニー”
  • Javanese: “Kaledonia Anyar”
  • Javanese: “Kalédonia Anyar”
  • Javanese: “Kaledonia Baru”
  • Kabyle: “Kalidun”
  • Kabyle: “Kalidunya tamaynut”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nutaaq Caledonia”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂ ಕ್ಯಾಲಿಡೋನಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂ ಕ್ಯಾಲೆಡೋನಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Jan’a Kaledoniya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Jańa Kaledoniya”
  • Kashmiri: “نِو کیلِڑونِیا”
  • Kazakh: “Жаңа Каледония”
  • Khmer: “នូវែល​កាឡេដូនី”
  • Kikuyu: “Nyukaledonia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nuveli Kalidoniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Жаңы Каледония”
  • Korean: “누벨 칼레도니”
  • Korean: “누벨칼레도니 섬”
  • Korean: “누벨칼레도니”
  • Korean: “뉴 칼레도니아”
  • Korean: “뉴칼레도니아 섬”
  • Korean: “뉴칼레도니아”
  • Kurdish: “Kaledonyaya Nû”
  • Lao: “ນິວ ຄາເລໂດເນຍ”
  • Latin: “Nova Caledonia”
  • Latvian: “Jaunkaledonija”
  • Latvian: “Jaunkaledonijas Teritorija”
  • Latvian: “NCL”
  • Ligurian: “Neuva Caledonia”
  • Limburgan: “Nuuj-Caledonië”
  • Lingala: “Kaledoni ya sika”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Caledonia Nova”
  • Lithuanian: “Naujoji Kaledonija”
  • Lithuanian: “Naujoji Kalėdonija”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Kaledoni wa mumu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Caledonia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanaky”
  • Luxembourgish: “Neikaledonien”
  • Luxembourgish: “New Caledonia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Macedonian: “Нова Каледонија”
  • Malagasy: “Kaledônia-Vaovao”
  • Malagasy: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Malay: “New Caledonia”
  • Malayalam: “ന്യൂ കാലിഡോണിയ”
  • Maltese: “Kaledonja l-Ġdida”
  • Maltese: “New Caledonia”
  • Maori: “Niu Karetōnia”
  • Marathi: “न्यू कालेदोनिया”
  • Marathi: “न्यू कॅलिडोनिया”
  • Marathi: “न्यू कॅलेडोनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “نو کالدونیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “New Caledonia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kanaky”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sin Caledonia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sin Calédonie”
  • Minangkabau: “Kaledonia Baru”
  • Mingrelian: “ახალი კალედონია”
  • Mongolian: “Шинэ Каледони”
  • Narom: “Nouvelle Calédonie”
  • Narom: “Nouvelle Calédonnie”
  • Nepali: “न्यु क्यालेडोनिया”
  • North Ndebele: “New Caledonia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Neikaledoonien”
  • Northern Sami: “Ođđa-Kaledonia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaledonier”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “New Caledonia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nouvelle Caledonie”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ny Caledonia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ny-Caledonia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ny-Kaledonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “New Caledonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nouvelle Caledonie”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nouvelle Calédonie”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nouvelle-Caledonie”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ny Caledonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ny Kaledonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ny-Caledonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ny-Calédonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ny-Kaledonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nycaledonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nykaledonia”
  • Norwegian: “Ny-Caledonia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canaquia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva Caledònia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “New Caledonia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nīwe Scotta Ēaland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nīƿe Scotta Ēaland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Oriya: “ନୂତନ କାଲେଡୋନିଆ”
  • Ossetian: “Ног Каледони”
  • Pampanga: “New Caledonia”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਊ ਕੈਲੇਡੋਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Nueva Caledonia”
  • Persian: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Persian: “کالدونیای جدید”
  • Persian: “کالدونیای نو”
  • Persian: “نیوکالدونیا”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nyuu Kaledonya”
  • Polish: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Polish: “Nowa Kaledonia”
  • Portuguese: “FR-CN”
  • Portuguese: “NC”
  • Portuguese: “NCL”
  • Portuguese: “Nouvelle-Caledonie”
  • Portuguese: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Caledónia”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Caledônia”
  • Portuguese: “Território da Nova Caledónia e Possessões”
  • Portuguese: “Território da Nova Caledônia e Possessões”
  • Pushto: “نوی کالیډونیا”
  • Quechua: “Kanaki”
  • Quechua: “Kanaky”
  • Quechua: “Musuq Kaliduniya”
  • Quechua: “Musuq Kalidunya”
  • Quechua: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Quechua: “Nueva Caledonia”
  • Romanian: “Noua Caledonie”
  • Romansh: “Nova Caledonia”
  • Rundi: “Niyukaledoniya”
  • Russian: “Новая Каледония”
  • Samoan: “Niu Kaletonia”
  • Sango: “Finî Kaledonïi”
  • Sardinian: “Noa Caledònia”
  • Scots: “Kanaky”
  • Scots: “New Caledon”
  • Scots: “New Caledonie”
  • Scots: “Territory o New Caledon an Dependencies”
  • Scots: “Territory o New Caledonie an Dependencies”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cailleann Nuadh”
  • Serbian: “Нова Каледонија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nova Kaledonija”
  • Shan: “ၼိဝ်း ၶႄႇလီႇတူဝ်းၼီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “New Caledonia”
  • Sicilian: “Nova Calidonia”
  • Silesian: “Nowo Kaledůńijo”
  • Sindhi: “نیو ڪالیڊونیا”
  • Sinhala: “නව කලෙඩොනියා”
  • Sinhala: “නව කැලිඩෝනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ođđ-Kaledonia”
  • Slovak: “Nová Kaledónia”
  • Slovenian: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Slovenian: “Nova Kaledonija”
  • Somali: “Jasiiradda Niyuu Kaledooniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یئنی کالدونیا”
  • Spanish: “Canaquía”
  • Spanish: “Kanaky”
  • Spanish: “Neocaledonio”
  • Spanish: “Nouvelle Calédonie”
  • Spanish: “Nouvelle-Caledonie”
  • Spanish: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Caledonia”
  • Sundanese: “Kaledonia Anyar”
  • Sundanese: “Kalédonia Anyar”
  • Sundanese: “Kaledonia Baru”
  • Sundanese: “New Caledonia”
  • Swahili: “Kaledonia Mpya”
  • Swahili: “New Caledonia”
  • Swahili: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Swedish: “Kanaky”
  • Swedish: “New Caledonia”
  • Swedish: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Swedish: “Nya Caledonien”
  • Swedish: “Nya Kaledonien”
  • Swiss German: “Nöikaledonie”
  • Tagalog: “Bagong Caledonia”
  • Tagalog: “New Caledonia”
  • Tajik: “Каледонияи Нав”
  • Tamil: “நியு கலிடோனியா”
  • Tamil: “நியு காலிடோனியா”
  • Tamil: “நியூ கலிடோனியா”
  • Tamil: “நியூ கேலிடோனியா”
  • Tatar: “Яңа Каледония”
  • Telugu: “క్రొత్త కాలెడోనియా”
  • Telugu: “న్యూ కాలెడోనియా”
  • Thai: “นิวแคลิโดเนีย”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะนิวแคลิโดเนีย”
  • Tigrinya: “ኒው ካሌዶኒያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Niu Kaledonia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Niu Kaletōnia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Neukaledonien”
  • Turkish: “Yeni Kaledonya”
  • Turkmen: “Täze Kaledoniýa”
  • Udmurt: “Выль Каледония”
  • Uighur: “Yéngi Kalédoniye”
  • Uighur: “يېڭى كالېدونىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Ukrainian: “Нова Каледонія”
  • Urdu: “New Caledonia”
  • Urdu: “نیو کلیڈونیا”
  • Urdu: “نیو کیلیڈونیا”
  • Uzbek: “Yangi kaledoniya”
  • Uzbek: “Yangi Kaledoniya”
  • Venetian: “Nóva Kałédonia”
  • Vietnamese: “New Caledonia”
  • Vietnamese: “Nouvelle Caledonie”
  • Vietnamese: “Nouvelle Calédonie”
  • Vietnamese: “Nouvelle-Calédonie”
  • Vietnamese: “Tân Calêđôni”
  • Vietnamese: “Tân Caledonia”
  • Vietnamese: “Tân Calédonie”
  • Vietnamese: “Tân Thế giới”
  • Volapük: “Nula-Kaledän”
  • Võro: “Vahtsõnõ Kalõdoonia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bag-o nga Caledonia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “New Caledonia”
  • Welsh: “Caledonia Newydd”
  • Welsh: “New Caledonia”
  • Western Frisian: “Nij-Caledonië”
  • Western Frisian: “Nij-Kaledoanje”
  • Western Mari: “У Каледони”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیو کیلیڈونیا”
  • Wolof: “Kaledooni-Gu-Bees”
  • Wolof: “Nuweel Kaledooni”
  • Wolof: “Nuwel Kaledoni”
  • Wu Chinese: “新喀里多尼亚”
  • Yakut: “Саҥа Каледония”
  • Yiddish: “נײַ קאַלעדאניע”
  • Yoruba: “Kaledonia Titun”
  • Yoruba: “Kalẹdóníà Tuntun”
  • Yoruba: “New Caledonia”
  • Yue Chinese: “新喀里多尼亞”
  • Zulu: “i-New Caledonia”
  • “FR-NC”
  • “Kaledonia Anyar”
  • “NC”
  • “NCL”
  • “Vahtsõnõ Kalõdoonia”

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