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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Collectivity
- New Caledonia
- Seat
- Wé ( Lifou )
- President
- Jacques Lalié
- Total
- 1,980.9 km (764.8 sq mi)
- Density
- 9.2650/km (23.996/sq mi)
- Kanak
- 94.63%
- Multiracial
- 2%
- European
- 1.74%
- Ni vanuatu
- 0.09%
- Wallisians and futunans
- 0.08%
- Indonesians
- 0.05%
- Other asian
- 0.02%
- Tahitians
- 0.01%
- Vietnamese
- 0.01%
- Other
- 1.38%
- Languages
- Drehu , Iaai , Nengone
- Website
- province-iles .nc
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- France
- Located in
- New Caledonia
- Contains
- Ouvéa
- Capital
- Lifou
- Population
- 18297
- Area
- 1980.9
- Elevation
- 138
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Official website
- www.province-iles.nc
- Image
- Lifou island.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Loyalty Islands Province (French: Province des îles Loyauté, pronounced [pʁɔvɛ̃s dez‿il lwajote]) is one of the three top-level administrative subdivisions of New Caledonia. It encompasses the Loyalty Islands (French: Îles Loyauté) archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, located northeast of the New Caledonian mainland of Grande Terre.
The provincial government seat is at Lifou. The Loyalty Islands are a collectivité territoriale of France. The province's 2019 population was approximately 18,353 inhabitants living on almost 2,000 km (770 sq mi). The native inhabitants are Melanesians who speak various Kanak languages and Polynesians who speak the Fagauvea language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loyalty Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.