Nouméa (ncl)

Nouméa

Nouméa ranks 3,920th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bacup, Grimsby, and Guédiawaye. The most famous people from Nouméa are Antoine Kombouaré, Francis Carco, and Colin Higgins. The most famous people who died in Nouméa are Robert Sassone. Nouméa has been the birth place of many soccer players, and cyclists and the death place of many cyclists. Nouméa is located in New Caledonia.

Nouméa is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest Francophone city in Oceania. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, and is home to the majority of the island's European, Polynesian, Indonesian, and Vietnamese populations, as well as many Melanesians, Ni-Vanuatu and indigenous Kanaks who work in one of the South Pacific's most industrialised cities. The city lies on a protected deepwater harbour that serves as the chief port for New Caledonia. Read more on Wikipedia