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General information New Caledonia
 
Country: New Caledonia
Top-level domain (ccTLD): nc
Population: 240.400
Language: French
Currency: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique franc (XPF)
Telephone: +687
Area: 18.575 km2
Flag:
Flag explanation: The only flag in official use in New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France, is the French tricolour. A flag in fairly widespread unofficial use, however, is the flag of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), a political party favoring independence for New Caledonia.

The FLNKS flag, first adopted by the party in 1980, is composed of three fesses of blue (Pantone 286c), red (Pantone 032c) and green (Pantone 347c) charged with a yellow (Pantone 102c) disc of a diameter two-thirds the height of the flag centred at a position of one-third the width of the flag, measured from the hoist side. The disc is fimbrated black and defaced with a vertical symbol, also black.

The blue symbolizes both the sky but more importantly the ocean surrounding New Caledonia. The red symbolizes the blood shed by the Kanaks in their struggle for independence, socialism, and unity. The green symbolizes the land itself and by extension the ancestors buried within it. The yellow disc is a representation of the sun and the symbol upon it consists of a flèche faitière, a kind of arrow which adorns the roofs of Kanak houses thrust through tutut shells.
Located:
Continent: Oceania

New Caledonia (French: Nouvelle-Calédonie; popular names: Kanaky, Le caillou), is a "sui generis collectivity" (in practice an overseas territory) of France, made up of a main island (Grande Terre), the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands. It is located in the region of Melanesia in the southwest Pacific. At about half the size of Taiwan, it has a land area of 18,575.5 square kilometres (7,172 sq mi). The population was 240,400 inhabitants as of January 2007 official estimates. It has an Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of .nc. The capital and largest city of the territory is Nouméa. The currency is the CFP franc.

Since 1986 the United Nations Committee on Decolonization has included New Caledonia on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. New Caledonia will decide whether to remain within the French Republic or become an independent state in a referendum sometime after 2014.

Its capital Nouméa is the seat of the regional organization the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (formerly the South Pacific Commission).