Bourail - New Caledonia - Melanesia - Pacific Ocean
New Caledonia History and Facts in Brief
Bourail
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Commune of Bourail
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| Location |
 |
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Location of the commune (in red) within New Caledonia |
| Administration |
| Country |
France |
| Sui generis collectivity |
New Caledonia |
| Province |
South Province |
| Statistics |
| Elevation |
0 m-1,438 m
(avg. 10 m) |
| Land area¹ |
797.6 km² |
Population²
(2004 census) |
4,779 |
| - Density |
6.0/km² (2004 census) |
- Ethnic distribution
(1996 census) |
Europeans 55.6%
Kanaks 34.8%
Polynesians 3.3%
Other 6.3% |
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Miscellaneous |
| INSEE/Postal code |
98803/98870 |
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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: residents of multiple
communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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Bourail is a commune in the South Province
of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of
France in the Pacific Ocean.
4900 inhabitants (2006).
A museum.
Sights:
The Arabian cemetery and the New Zealand military
cemetery of an epoch of the Second world war.
Beaches on which turtles live.
In Bourail lies the last remains of Antoni Berezowski,
the Polish patriot, who in Paris in 1867 made an unsuccessful
attempt to assassinate the Russian emperor Alexander II.
Sister Cities
Waimate, New Zealand
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