New Caledonia

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuː ˌkæl.ɪˈdəʊ.ni.ə/, /ˈnjuː ˌkæl.əˈdəʊ.ni.ə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈnu ˌkæl.ɪˈdoʊ.ni.ə/, /ˈnu ˌkæl.əˈdoʊ.ni.ə/
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Proper noun

New Caledonia

Overseas territory of France in Oceania. Official name: Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies.
(historical) A district of the west coast of British North America traded by the Hudson's Bay Company. It became the colony of British Columbia in 1858.
(historical) A short-lived (1698–1700) Scottish colony in Panama, around Darien (which was renamed New Edinburgh as its capital)

Derived terms

New Caledonian

Translations

overseas territory of France

Arabic: كَالِيدُونِيَا اَلْجَدِيدَة‎ f (kālīdūniyā l-jadīda)
Breton: Kaledonia Nevez
Bulgarian: Нова Каледония (Nova Kaledonija)
Catalan: Nova Caledònia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 新喀里多尼亚 (zh) (Xīn-Kèliduōníyǎ)
Czech: Nová Kaledonie
Danish: Ny Kaledonien
Dutch: Nieuw-Caledonië (nl) n
Esperanto: Nov-Kaledonio
Faroese: Ný Kaledonia n
Finnish: Uusi-Kaledonia (fi)
French: Nouvelle-Calédonie (fr) f
Galician: Nova Caledonia f
German: Neukaledonien (de) n
Greek: Νέα Καληδονία (el) f (Néa Kalidonía)
Hebrew: קלדוניה החדשה‎ (Kaledonia ha-Khadasha)
Hungarian: Új-Kaledónia (hu)
Italian: Nuova Caledonia f

Japanese: ニューカレドニア (Nyūkaredonia)
Korean: 뉴칼레도니아 (Nyukalledonia)
Macedonian: Но́ва Каледо́нија f (Nóva Kaledónija)
Norman: Nouvelle Calédonie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Ny-Caledonia

Nynorsk: Ny-Caledonia
Polish: Nowa Kaledonia (pl) f
Portuguese: Nova Caledónia (pt) f
Romanian: Noua Caledonie f
Russian: Но́вая Каледо́ния f (Nóvaja Kaledónija)
Scots: New Caledon
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: Nova Kaledonija f
Spanish: Nueva Caledonia (es) f
Swedish: Nya Kaledonien (sv)
Turkish: Yeni Kaledonya (tr)
Vietnamese: Tân Thế giới
Volapük: Nula-Kaledän (vo)

See also

Caledonia
Kanak
Countries of the world

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