Key facts
- Archipelago
- New Caledonia
- Area
- 16,372 km (6,321 sq mi)
- Territory
- New Caledonia
- Largest settlement
- Nouméa
- Population
- 268,000
- Languages
- French , New Caledonian languages
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Grande Terre ( French: [ɡʁɑ̃d tɛʁ], Dehu: Mëëke), locally nicknamed Caillou, is the largest and principal island of New Caledonia, which is a territory of France.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grande Terre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.