New Caledonia
Grande Terre
South Province

Nouméa

Nouméa is the largest city in and capital of , 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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  • Type: City with 91,400 residents
  • Description: capital city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia
  • Also known as: “Noumea” and “Port de France”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Roman.b, FAL.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nouméa Cathedral and Indonesian Consulate.

Church
Photo: Pilettes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Catholic church in Nouméa, . It is dedicated to the Saint Joseph. The cathedral has been the seat since 1966 of the Archdiocese of Nouméa, to which the former Vicariate Apostolic of Nouvelle-Calédonie was elevated.

Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a government office.

Village green
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village green.

Nouméa

Latitude
-22.2745° or 22° 16′ 28″ south
Longitude
166.4424° or 166° 26′ 33″ east
Population
91,400
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
NOU
United Nations Location Code
NC NOU
Open location code
5V98PCGR+5X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 291987644
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2139521
Wiki­data ID
Q9733
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Nouméa” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nouméa”
  • Afrikaans: “Nouméa”
  • Albanian: “Numea”
  • Arabic: “نوميا”
  • Armenian: “Նումեա”
  • Asturian: “Numea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Numea”
  • Basque: “Nouméa”
  • Belarusian: “Нумеа”
  • Belarusian: “Нумэа”
  • Bengali: “নুমেয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Nouméa”
  • Breton: “Noumea”
  • Breton: “Nouméa”
  • Bulgarian: “Нумеа”
  • Catalan: “Nouméa”
  • Cebuano: “Nouméa”
  • Chinese: “Nouméa”
  • Chinese: “努美阿”
  • Chinese: “諾美亞”
  • Chuvash: “Нумеа”
  • Croatian: “Nouméa”
  • Czech: “Nouméa”
  • Danish: “Noumea”
  • Danish: “Nouméa”
  • Dutch: “Noumea (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Nouméa”
  • Esperanto: “Numeo”
  • Estonian: “Nouméa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Noumea”
  • Finnish: “Noumea”
  • Finnish: “Nouméa”
  • French: “COMMUNE DE NOUMEA”
  • French: “Noumea”
  • French: “Nouméa”
  • Galician: “Noumea”
  • Galician: “Nouméa”
  • Georgian: “ნუმეა”
  • German: “Noumea”
  • German: “Nouméa”
  • German: “Numea”
  • Greek: “Noumea”
  • Greek: “Νουμεά”
  • Greek: “Νουμέα”
  • Gujarati: “નૌમિયા”
  • Hebrew: “נומאה”
  • Hindi: “नुमेया”
  • Hungarian: “Nouméa”
  • Icelandic: “Nouméa”
  • Ido: “Noumea”
  • Indonesian: “Nouméa”
  • Interlingue: “Nouméa”
  • Irish: “Noumea”
  • Italian: “Noumea”
  • Italian: “Nouméa”
  • Italian: “Numea”
  • Japanese: “ヌメア”
  • Kannada: “ನೌಮಿಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Нумеа қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Нумеа”
  • Kirghiz: “Нумеа”
  • Korean: “누메아”
  • Latin: “Nouméa”
  • Latvian: “Numea”
  • Latvian: “Numeja”
  • Ligurian: “Nouméa”
  • Lithuanian: “Numėja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Noumea”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nouméa”
  • Macedonian: “Нумеа”
  • Macedonian: “Нумеја”
  • Malay: “Noumea”
  • Malay: “Nouméa”
  • Maltese: “Noumea”
  • Maltese: “Nouméa”
  • Maori: “Nūmea”
  • Marathi: “नूमेआ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nouméa”
  • Mongolian: “Нумеа”
  • Narom: “Nouméa”
  • Nepali: “नोउमिआ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nouméa”
  • Norwegian: “Nouméa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nomea”
  • Ossetian: “Нумеа”
  • Papiamento: “Nouméa”
  • Persian: “نومئا”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Numea”
  • Polish: “Numea”
  • Portuguese: “Noumea”
  • Portuguese: “Nouméa”
  • Portuguese: “Numeá”
  • Pushto: “نومیا”
  • Romanian: “Nouméa”
  • Russian: “Нумеа”
  • Sardinian: “Nouméa”
  • Scots: “Nouméa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Numea”
  • Serbian: “Нумеа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nouméa”
  • Shona: “Nouméa”
  • Silesian: “Nouméa”
  • Sinhala: “නූමියා”
  • Sinhala: “නෝමියා”
  • Slovak: “Nouméa”
  • Slovenian: “Noumea”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نومئا”
  • Spanish: “Numea”
  • Swahili: “Nouméa”
  • Swedish: “Noumea”
  • Swedish: “Nouméa”
  • Tagalog: “Nouméa”
  • Tajik: “Нумеа”
  • Tamil: “நூமியா”
  • Tamil: “நூமேயா”
  • Tatar: “Нумеа”
  • Telugu: “నొమేయా”
  • Thai: “นูเมอา”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Nūmea”
  • Turkish: “Nouméa”
  • Turkmen: “Noumea”
  • Ukrainian: “Нумеа”
  • Ukrainian: “Нумея”
  • Urdu: “نومئا”
  • Uzbek: “Numea”
  • Vietnamese: “Nouméa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nouméa”
  • Welsh: “Nouméa”
  • Western Frisian: “Nouméa”
  • Wu Chinese: “努美阿”
  • Yue Chinese: “努美阿”
  • “Nouméa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nouméa”. Photo: Roman.b, FAL.