Nueva Caledonia

"Nueva Caledonia (en francés: Nouvelle-Calédonie; llamada generalmente Kanaky por la población autóctona) es un archipiélago de Oceanía situado en la Melanesia, a pocos grados al norte del trópico de Capricornio. Se sitúa en el sudoeste del océano Pacífico, a 1500 km al este de Australia, y 2000 km al norte de Nueva Zelanda, al sur de Vanuatu y al suroeste de Fiyi. Su territorio comprende aproximadamente 19 100 km². Es una dependencia francesa que tiene el estatus de colectividad sui géneris, a diferencia de la Polinesia Francesa y de Wallis y Futuna, que son colectividades de ultramar. El Acuerdo de Numea concedió a Nueva Caledonia un estatus particular en el seno de la República Francesa."

"New Caledonia (French: Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia and 16,136 km (10,026 mi) east of Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets. The Chesterfield Islands are in the Coral Sea. Locals refer to Grande Terre as Le Caillou ("the pebble"). New Caledonia has a land area of 18,576 km2 (7,172 sq mi). Its population of 268,767 (Aug. 2014 census) consists of a mix of Kanak people (the original inhabitants of New Caledonia), people of European descent (Caldoches and Metropolitan French), Polynesian people (mostly Wallisians), and Southeast Asian people, as well as a few people of Pied-Noir and Maghreban descent. The capital of the territory is Nouméa."