Population is about 287,800 people, the 182nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 26,675 of everyone alive.
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia ยท Nouvelle-Calรฉdonie
Oceania
ยท Melanesia
0Population
18.58Kkmยฒ of land
$37.42KGDP / person
-Capital
- ISO codes
- NC ยท NCL
- Density
- 16 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- CFP franc (XPF)
- Dial code
- +687
- Internet domain
- .nc
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 21.0650ยฐ S, 165.0840ยฐ E
- Demonym
- New Caledonian
- UN region
- Melanesia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $10.77B
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How New Caledonia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
182nd
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
155th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
43rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
208th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about New Caledonia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 18,575 kmยฒ, making it the 155th largest country here - about 7.2 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 16 people per kmยฒ.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Pacific/Noumea.
The currency is the CFP franc (XPF, symbol โฃ).
The official language is French.
Dials on +687 and uses the .nc internet domain.
Annual GDP is around $11 billion - the 150th largest economy here, or about $37,422 per person.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Pacific/Noumea
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UTC+11:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Noumรฉa
Sud
22.2625ยฐ S, 166.4443ยฐ E
93.06K