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2 days ago · New Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
- Administrative Divisions of New Caledonia
Other types of divisions The hierarchy of New Caledonia's...
- Economy of New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a major source for nickel and contains...
- Sui Generis Collectivity
A New Caledonian citizenship was established (in addition to...
- Flag
Two flags are in use in New Caledonia, an overseas territory...
- Isle of Pines
Upi Bay, Isle of Pines, New Caledonia. The Isle of Pines...
- Louis Mapou
Mapou is New Caledonia's first native Kanak president since...
- Grande Terre
Surrounding the island and especially to the north-west is...
- Amborella
Amborella is a monotypic genus of understory shrubs or small...
- Araucaria Columnaris
Distribution. The tree is endemic to New Caledonia in the...
- Congress of New Caledonia
The Congress of New Caledonia (French: Congrès de la...
- Administrative Divisions of New Caledonia
5 days ago · New Netherland—the 17th-century colony of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) in what is today New York, New Jersey, and the Delaware Valley—occupies a distinctive place in historiography.
3 days ago · Descartes spent much of his working life in the Dutch Republic, initially serving the Dutch States Army, and later becoming a central intellectual of the Dutch Golden Age. [15] Although he served a Protestant state and was later counted as a deist by critics, Descartes was Roman Catholic.
4 days ago · The True Story Behind the Purchase of Manhattan Island. As a pilot who often flies over the iconic skyline of New York City, I often wonder about the history of Manhattan Island and how it came to be the bustling metropolis that it is today.
2 days ago · In 1664, New York became a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America. 3. What was New York originally called in the 1600s? The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City.
4 days ago · Starting this Friday, and over the course of several weekly shows, we’ll dig deeper into the history of those Dutch settlements in New Amsterdam and New Netherland — from the first Walloon settlers in 1624 to the arrival of Peter Stuyvesant.
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3 days ago · New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick, pronounced [nuvo bʁœ̃swik], locally [nuvo bʁɔnzwɪk]) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces .
