Where is Noumea (New Caledonia)
Commune of Nouméa
Location
Location of the commune within New Caledonia
Administration
Country
France
Sui generis collectivity
New Caledonia
Province
South Province
Mayor
Jean Lèques
Statistics
Altitude
0 m–167 m
Land area¹
45.7 km²
Population²
91,386
- Density
1,999/km²
- Ethnic distribution
Europeans 50.9%
Kanaks 22.9%
Polynesians 12.3%
Other 13.9%
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code
98818/ 98800
1 New Caledonia Land Register data, which exclude lakes and ponds larger than 1 km² as well as the estuaries of rivers.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes .
Nouméa is the capital city of the French territory of New Caledonia. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, and is home to the majority of the island's European, Polynesian , Indonesian, and Vietnamese population, as well as many Melanesian Ni-Vanuatu and Kanaks that work in one of the South Pacific's most industrialised cities.
The population of the city at the Aug./Sept. 2004 census was 91,386 inhabitants . Including the suburbs of Nouméa, the population of the Greater Nouméa metropolitan area at the 2004 census was 146,245 inhabitants . 63.4% of the population of New Caledonia live in Greater Nouméa, which covers the communes of Nouméa, Le Mont-Dore, Dumbéa and Païta.
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