Key facts
- Archipelago
- New Caledonia
- Area
- 16,372 km (6,321 sq mi)
- Territory
- New Caledonia
- Largest settlement
- Nouméa
- Population
- 268,000
- Languages
- French , New Caledonian languages
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- New Caledonia
- Country
- France
- Located in
- New Caledonia
- Continent
- Insular Oceania
- Capital
- Nouméa
- Area
- 16648
- Elevation
- 1628
- Time zone
- UTC+11:00
- Body of water
- Coral Sea
- Highest point
- Mont Panié
- Image
- Landscape, south of New Caledonia.jpg
- Width
- 60
- Length
- 400
Show 3 more facts
- located in/on physical feature
- Pacific Ocean
- Commons category
- Grande Terre (New Caledonia)
- different from
- Grande Terre
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Grande Terre ( French: [ɡʁɑ̃d tɛʁ], Dehu: Mëëke), locally nicknamed Caillou, is the largest and principal island of New Caledonia, which is a territory of France.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grande Terre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.