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New Caledonia (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 21 30 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -21.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 165 30 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 165.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises Nouvelle-Calédonie island and several other islands; originally inhabited by Melanesians of Papuan type; documented by Bougainville in 1768 and sighted by Cook in 1774; served as Allied base in WW II; civil unrest by native Melanesians mid-1980s; official language is French, though English is also widely spoken. |
Names: |
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| Nouvelle-Calédonie (preferred,C,V,Malagasy)
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| Nouvelle-Calédonie (French)
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| Territoire de la Novelle-Calédonie et Dépendances (C,V)
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| Nouvell-Calédonie (C,V)
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| Nouvelle Calédonie (C,V)
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| New Caledonia (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| New Caledonia (Somali)
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| New Caledonia (Maltese)
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| New Caledonia (Vietnamese)
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| New Caledonia (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| New Caledonia (North Ndebele)
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| New Caledonia (Shona)
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| New Caledonian (C,V)
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| Neukaledonien (C,O,German)
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| Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies (C,O,English)
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| Nueva Caledonia (C,O,Spanish)
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| Nova Caledônia (C,O,Portuguese)
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| NCL (C,O,ISO3L)
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| NC (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO540 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| קלדוניה החדשה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| An Nua-Chaladóin (C,U,O,Irish Gaelic)
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| Caledonia Newydd (C,U,Welsh)
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| Finî Kaledonïi (C,U,Sangho)
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| i-New Caledonia (C,U,Zulu)
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| Jaunkaledonija (C,U,Latvian)
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| Kaledonia Baru (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Kaledonia Berria (C,U,Basque)
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| Kaledonia Foforo (C,U,Akan)
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| Kaledonia Nevez (C,U,Breton)
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| Kaledoni Koura (C,U,Bambara)
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| Kaledoni wa mumu (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Kaledoniya Sabuwa (C,U,Hausa)
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| Kaledoni ya sika (C,U,Lingala)
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| Kaledonya mupya (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Naujoji Kaledonija (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| New Kaledonia nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Nieu-Kaledonië (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Nieuw-Caledonië (C,U,Dutch)
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| Niu Kaletōnia (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Niyukaledoniya (C,U,Rundi)
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| Noua Caledonie (C,U,Romanian)
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| Nova Caledònia (C,U,Catalan)
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| Nova Caledonia (C,U,Galician)
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| Nova Caledonia (Romansh)
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| Nová Kaledónia (C,U,Slovak)
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| Nová Kaledonie (C,U,Czech)
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| Nova Kaledonija (C,U,Croatian)
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| Nova Kaledonija (Bosnian)
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| Nova Kaledonija (Slovene)
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| Nove Caledonia (C,U,Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Nov-Kaledonio (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Nowa Kaledonia (C,U,Polish)
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| Nuova Caledonia (C,U,Italian)
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| Nutaaq Caledonia (C,U,Greenlandic)
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| Nuwel Kaledonii (C,U,Fulah)
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| Nya Kaledonien (C,U,Swedish)
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| Ny-Caledonia (C,U,Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Ny-Caledonia (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Ny Caledonien (C,U,Danish)
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| Nýja-Kaledónía (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Ný-Kaledonia (C,U,Faroese)
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| Nyukaledonia (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Nyukaledonia (Swahili (generic))
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| Ođđa-Kaledonia (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Orílẹ́ède Kaledonia Titun (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Territoire des Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances (C,U,French)
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| Új-Kaledónia (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Uusi-Kaledonia (C,U,Finnish)
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| Uus-Kaledoonia (C,U,Estonian)
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| Yeni Kaledoniya (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Yeni Kaledonya (C,U,Turkish)
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| 누벨칼레도니 (C,U,Korean)
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| Новая Каледония (C,U,Russian)
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| न्यू कॅलेडोनिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| ನ್ಯೂ ಕ್ಯಾಲಿಡೋನಿಯಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| නව කැලිඩෝනියාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| Нова Каледонија (C,U,Serbian)
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| Нова Каледонија (Macedonian)
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| പുതിയ കാലിഡോണിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| 新喀里多尼亚 (C,U,Chinese)
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| Нова Каледонія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| ኒው ካሌዶኒያ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ኒው ካሌዶኒያ (Amharic)
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| نیو کلیڈونیا (C,U,Urdu)
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| ນິວຄາລິໂຄເນຍ (C,U,Lao)
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| நியூ கேலிடோனியா (C,U,Tamil)
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| Νέα Καληδονία (C,U,Greek)
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| नयाँ कालेडोनिया (C,U,Nepali)
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| न्यू कैलेडोनिया (C,U,Hindi)
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| క్రొత్త కాలెడోనియా (C,U,Telugu)
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| Нова Каледония (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| كاليدونيا الجديدة (C,U,Arabic)
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| ニューカレドニア (C,U,Japanese)
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| ନୂତନ କାଲେଡୋନିଆ (C,U,Odia)
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| နယူး ကယ်လီဒိုနီးယား (C,U,Burmese)
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| Новая Каледонія (C,U,Belarusian)
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| นิวแคลิโดเนีย (C,U,Thai)
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| 뉴칼레도니아 (C,U,Korean)
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| ახალი კალედონია (C,U,Georgian)
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| নিউ ক্যালেডোনিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| کالدونیای جدید (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ન્યુ સેલેડોનિયા (C,U,Gujarati)
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Additional Parents: |
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Place Types: |
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| dependent state (preferred, C) |
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French, since 1853 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| overseas territory (C) |
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established 1946 |
| penal settlement (H) |
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French, established 1853 |
| dependent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Nouméa .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Oceania, New Caledonia, South Province) [1098800] |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Territoire de la Novelle-Calédonie et Dépendances.......... |
[VP] |
| ................................................................................ |
Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 681 |
| Territoire des Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 2139685 |
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