Belep

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Commune of Belep
Country	France
Sui generis collectivity	New Caledonia ) | align="center" | 930 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Ethnic distribution () | align="center" | Kanaks 99.3% Europeans 0% Polynesians 0% Other 0.7% |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Population density ()|| align="center" | 13.4 pers./km² |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Longitude || style="text-align: center" | |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Latitude || style="text-align: center" | |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | valign=top| Altitude || align="center" | average: 20 m minimum: 0 m maximum: 283 m |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | INSEE Code || align="center" | 98801 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Postal code || align="center" | 98811 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | colspan=2| 1 New Caledonia Land Register (DITTT) data, which exclude lakes and ponds larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers. 2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personnel). |} Belep (sometimes unofficially spelled Bélep) is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The commune's territory is made up of the Belep Islands (also known as the Belep Archipelago), which lie to the north of New Caledonia's mainland. The two principal islands in the Belep Archipelago are Art Island (aka Aar) and Pott Island (aka Phwoc), and the rest of the archipelago consists of the Northern Daos Islands, the Southern Daos Islands, and several very small islets. The administrative centre of the commune is the settlement of Waala, on Art Island, the largest of the Belep Islands. History The Belep Islands were named after a Kanak chief who settled there in ancient times. A Catholic mission was founded in Belep in 1856. There existed a leper colony on the islands between 1892 and 1898. Subdivisions of New Caledonia Provinces Loyalty Islands Province | North Province | South Province Communes Belep | Bouloupari | Bourail | Canala | Dumbéa | Farino | Hienghène | Houaïlou | L'Île-des-Pins | Kaala-Gomen | Koné | Kouaoua | Koumac | La Foa | Lifou | Maré | Moindou | Le Mont-Dore | Nouméa | Ouégoa | Ouvéa | Païta | Poindimié | Ponérihouen | Pouébo | Pouembout | Poum | Poya | Sarraméa | Thio | Touho | Voh | Yaté   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: