Ouvéa

For the yacht of the same name, see Ouvéa (ship).

Commune of Ouvéa

Commune of Ouvéa (islands of Ouvéa, Mouli, Faiava, and surrounding islets) from space, November 1990

Country

France

Sui generis collectivity

New Caledonia
) | align="center" | 4,359 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Ethnic distribution
()

| align="center" | Kanaks 98.8%
Europeans 0.8%
Polynesians 0.3%
Other 0.1% |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Population density
()|| align="center" | 33.0 pers./km² |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Longitude || style="text-align: center" | |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Latitude || style="text-align: center" | |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | valign=top| Altitude || align="center" | average: 2 m
minimum: 0 m
maximum: 46 m |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | INSEE Code || align="center" | 98820 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Postal code || align="center" | 98814 |- 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). |}

Ouvéa is a commune in the Islands Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

Ouvéa is made up of Ouvéa Island, the smaller Mouli Island and Faiava Island, and several islets around these three islands. All these lie among the Loyalty Islands, to the northeast of New Caledonia's mainland.

The settlement of Fayaoué, on Ouvéa Island, is the administrative centre of the commune of Ouvéa.

History

In 1988, a bloody hostage taking took place on Ouvéa.

Languages

The two native languages of Ouvéa are the Melanesian Iaai and the Polynesian Faga Uvea, which is the only Polynesian language that has taken root in New Caledonia. Speakers of Faga Uvea have fully integrated into the Kanak society, and consider themselves Kanak.

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