New Caledonia

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
NC
ISO alpha-3
NCL
ISO numeric
540
FIPS 10-4
NC
GeoNames ID
2139685

Key facts

Capital
Noumea
Area
19,060 km²
Population
284,060
Currency
Franc (XPF)
Calling code
+687
Top-level domain
.nc
Official languages
fr-NC

Continent

Name
Oceania
Code
OC
In this dataset
28 countries

Oceania in the country atlas

Location

Min latitude
-22.670668226999908
Min longitude
163.6157332690001
Max latitude
-19.623711846999925
Max longitude
171.343765287

Boundary

New Caledonia

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/NC?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 19060,
    "capital": "Noumea",
    "continent_code": "OC",
    "currency_code": "XPF",
    "iso3_code": "NCL",
    "iso_code": "NC",
    "name": "New Caledonia",
    "population": 284060
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/NC/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=NC
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=NC
  • /v1/timezones?country=NC
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Name in other languages

Arabic
كاليدونيا الجديدة
Chinese
新喀里多尼亚
English
New Caledonia
French
Nouvelle-Calédonie
German
Neukaledonien
Hindi
न्यू कैलेडोनिया
Italian
Nuova Caledonia
Japanese
ニューカレドニア
Korean
뉴칼레도니아
Portuguese
Nova Caledônia
Russian
Новая Каледония
Spanish
Nueva Caledonia
Total language variants
124

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Pacific/Noumea UTC+11:00 UTC+11:00

Postal code format

Format
#####
Pattern
^(\d{5})$

First-level administrative regions

  • Province Sud
  • Province Nord
  • Province des îles Loyauté

3 of 3 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Nouméa 93,060
Mont-Dore 24,680
Dumbéa 19,346
Païta 12,617
10,375
Vallée des Colons 8,866
Tadine 7,492
Magenta 7,169
Rivière-Salée 6,873
Bourail 5,531

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
741
First-level regions
3
Postal codes
52
Name languages
124
Boundary polygon
Yes

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