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Nouméa, the Glossary

Nouméa is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest francophone city in Oceania.^[1]

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Capitals in Oceania
Communes of New Caledonia
Port cities in Oceania

Air Calédonie

Société Calédonienne de Transports Aériens, trading as Air Calédonie, is the domestic airline of the French collectivity of New Caledonia.

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Aircalin

Société Aircalin, also known as Air Calédonie International, is the flag carrier of the French collectivity of New Caledonia, with its headquarters in Nouméa.

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Amédée Lighthouse

The Amédée Lighthouse (Phare Amédée) is an iron lighthouse located on Amédée Island in New Caledonia, from Nouméa on Grande Terre.

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Balade, New Caledonia

Balade, also written Balaide, is a village located in the north of New Caledonia.

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Cherifa Linossier

Cherifa Linossier is a businesswoman from New Caledonia, who was leader of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME).

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Communes of France

The is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Dry season

The dry season was a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.

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Dumbéa

Dumbéa is a commune in the suburbs of Nouméa in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Nouméa and Dumbéa are communes of New Caledonia.

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English-speaking world

The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.

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Francophonie

The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French Polynesia

French Polynesia (Polynésie française; Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country.

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Gilles I. Pisier (born 18 November 1950) is a professor of mathematics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and a distinguished professor and A.G. and M.E. Owen Chair of Mathematics at the Texas A&M University.

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Gold Coast, Queensland

The Gold Coast, also known by its initials, GC, is a coastal city and region in the state of Queensland, Australia, located approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital, Brisbane.

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Grande Terre (New Caledonia)

Grande Terre is the largest and principal island of New Caledonia, which is a territory of France.

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Ilaïsaane Lauouvéa

Ilaïsaane Lauouvéa (born 1970) is a New Caledonian politician, who from 2009 to 2014 was an elected member of the Congress of New Caledonia representing the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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James Paddon

James Paddon (23 September 1811, Portsea, Hampshire – 13 February 1861, Nou Island, New Caledonia) was an English navigator-merchant, sandalwood, settler, pioneer in the New Hebrides and New Caledonia.

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Kanak people

The Kanaks (French spelling until 1984: Canaque) are the indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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La Tontouta International Airport

La Tontouta International Airport, also known as Nouméa – La Tontouta International Airport (Aéroport de Nouméa - La Tontouta), 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.

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Le Mont-Dore, New Caledonia

Le Mont-Dore is a commune in the suburbs of Nouméa in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Nouméa and Le Mont-Dore, New Caledonia are communes of New Caledonia.

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List of museums in New Caledonia

This is a list of museums in New Caledonia.

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Marianne Devaux

Marianne Devaux (born October 27, 1962, in Nouméa) is a New Caledonian politician.

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Maritime Museum of New Caledonia

The Maritime Museum of New Caledonia is a maritime museum in New Caledonia.

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Météo-France

Météo-France is the official French meteorological administration, also offering services to Andorra.

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Melanesians

Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands.

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Metropolitan France

Metropolitan France (France métropolitaine or la Métropole), also known as European France, is the area of France which is geographically in Europe.

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Multiracial people

The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.

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Naval Base Noumea

Naval Base Noumea was a major United States Navy sea and air base at Nouméa, New Caledonia.

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Ndrumbea language

Ndrumbea, variously spelled Dumbea, Ndumbea, Dubea, Drubea and Païta, is a New Caledonian language that gave its name to the capital of New Caledonia, Nouméa, and the neighboring town of Dumbéa.

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New Caledonia

New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a ''sui generis'' collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France.

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New Caledonian languages

The thirty New Caledonian languages also known as Kanak languages form a branch of the Southern Oceanic languages.

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Ni-Vanuatu

Ni-Vanuatu (informally abbreviated Ni-Van) is a large group of closely related Melanesian ethnic groups native to the island country of Vanuatu.

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Nice

Nice (Niçard: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, Mistralian norm,; Nizza; Nissa; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France.

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Nouméa Cathedral

Nouméa Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Joseph de Nouméa) is a Catholic church in Nouméa, New Caledonia.

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Nouméa Magenta Airport

Nouméa Magenta Airport (Aéroport de Nouméa-Magenta) is a domestic airport on the main island of New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

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Nouméa-Païta railway

The Nouméa-Païta railway was, apart from several narrow gauge industrial railway lines, the only metre-gauge railway line serving New Caledonia.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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Overseas departments and regions of France

The overseas departments and regions of France (départements et régions d'outre-mer,; DROM) are departments of the French Republic which are outside the continental Europe situated portion of France, known as "metropolitan France".

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Overseas France

Overseas France (France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine) consists of 13 French territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that remained a part of the French state under various statuses after decolonization.

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Païta

Païta is a commune in the suburbs of Nouméa in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Nouméa and Païta are communes of New Caledonia.

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The Pacific Community (PC), formerly the South Pacific Commission (SPC), is an international development organisation governed by 27 members, including 22 Pacific island countries and territories around the Pacific Ocean.

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Papeete

Papeete (Tahitian: Papeʻete, pronounced) is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean. Nouméa and Papeete are capitals in Oceania and port cities in Oceania.

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Peato Mauvaka

Peato Mauvaka (born 10 January 1997) is a French professional rugby union player who plays as a hooker for Top 14 club Toulouse and the France national team.

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Penal colony

A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory.

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Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Sonia Lagarde

Sonia Lagarde (née Boyer; born 29 August 1948) is a French New Caledonian politician and the current mayor of Nouméa.

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South Province, New Caledonia

The South Province is one of three administrative divisions in New Caledonia.

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Tahiti

Tahiti (Tahitian) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.

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Taupō

Taupō, sometimes written Taupo, is a town located in the central North Island of New Zealand.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories Aw (for a dry "winter") and As (for a dry "summer").

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University of New Caledonia

The University of New Caledonia UNC (Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a French university which is part of the Academy of New Caledonia located in Nouméa and Koné.

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Vietnamese people

The Vietnamese people (người Việt) or the Kinh people (người Kinh|lit.

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Wallis and Futuna

Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast, Samoa to the east, and Tokelau to the northeast.

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White people

White (often still referred to as Caucasian) is a racial classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouméa

Also known as Capital of New Caledonia, History of Nouméa, Nouméa, New Caledonia, Numea, Port of Nouméa, Port-de-France, St Joseph Cathedral, Nouméa, St Joseph's Cathedral, Nouméa, St. Joseph Cathedral, Nouméa, St. Joseph's Cathedral, Nouméa.

, South Province, New Caledonia, Tahiti, Taupō, Tropical savanna climate, University of New Caledonia, Vietnamese people, Wallis and Futuna, White people.

Nouméa, the Glossary

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See also

Capitals in Oceania

Communes of New Caledonia

Port cities in Oceania

References