Nouméa

The largest Francophone city in Oceania, Nouméa is the capital of New Caledonia — a French special collectivity in the South Pacific — with a walkable centre dense with cafés and restaurants, colonial mansions, and beaches within easy reach. The city sits on a peninsula with a protected deepwater harbour on the main island of Grande Terre, and draws a notably diverse population of European, Melanesian, Polynesian, Indonesian, and Vietnamese communities.

• Population93,060
• Nearest water from center 1.5 km0.9 mi
• Nearest mountain from center 0.6 km0.4 mi