La Foa

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Commune of La Foa
Country	France
Sui generis collectivity	New Caledonia ) | align="center" | 2,903 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Ethnic distribution () | align="center" | Europeans 48.8% Kanaks 33.0% Polynesians 13.8% Other 4.4% |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Population density ()|| align="center" | 6.3 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: 1,058 m |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | INSEE Code || align="center" | 98813 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Postal code || align="center" | 98880 |- 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). |} La Foa is a commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Although the provincial seat of the South Province is in Nouméa, La Foa was made the chief town of the administrative subdivision of the South in order to counterbalance the overwhelming weight of Nouméa in New Caledonia. Both entities share an almost identical territory, but their status and role is quite different: the South Province, with its provincial assembly in Nouméa, is a full political division, whereas the administrative subdivision of the South is only an administrative division of the French central state, akin to an arrondissement of Metropolitan France, with a Deputy Commissioner of the Republic (commissaire délégué de la République), akin to a subprefect of metropolitan France, in residence in La Foa. 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: