New Caledonia
Updated: Sep 20, 2022
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Country Name
New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie (French).
Location
New Caledonia is an overseas territory of France and a part of Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
It is situated to the south of the Equator and to the north of the Tropic of Capricorn; and is geographically positioned both in the Southern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth. The archipelago is located to the east of Australia; to the north of New Zealand and to the west of Fiji and Vanuatu.
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.
