Poum

''For the former Spanish political party POUM, see Workers' Party of Marxist Unification.

Commune of Poum

Country

France

Sui generis collectivity

New Caledonia
) | align="center" | 1,390 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Ethnic distribution
()

| align="center" | Kanaks 79.7%
Europeans 17.6%
Polynesians 0.7%
Other 2.0% |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Population density
()|| align="center" | 3.0 pers./km² |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Longitude || style="text-align: center" | |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Latitude || style="text-align: center" | |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | valign=top| Altitude || align="center" | average: 5 m
minimum: 0 m
maximum: 412 m |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | INSEE Code || align="center" | 98826 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Postal code || align="center" | 98826 |- 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). |}

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

History

The commune of Poum was created on January 5, 1977 by detaching its territory from the commune of Koumac.

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