The Anthem of New Caledonia

New Caledonia, is an overseas collectivity of France located in the subregion of Melanesia in the southwest Pacific. It comprises a main island (Grande Terre), the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands. Approximately half the size of Taiwan, it has a land area of 18,575.5 square kilometres (7,172 sq mi). The population was estimated in January 2009 to be 249,000.[1] The capital and largest city of the territory is Nouméa. The currency is the CFP franc.

Since 1986 the United Nations Committee on Decolonization has included New Caledonia on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. New Caledonia is set to decide whether to remain within the French Republic or become an independent state in a referendum to be held between 2014 and 2019.

Nouméa, the capital, is also the seat of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (formerly the South Pacific Commission), an international organization.

New Caledonia is a collectivity sui generis of France (a unique status to New Caledonia alone), in the South Pacific. Officially, "La Marseillaise" is used as the national anthem; while New Caledonia has more autonomy than French overseas departments (almost as much as the "overseas country" of French Polynesia), it does not have a separate anthem, nor is there reportedly a local anthem on the island, however, as part of the Nouema accord, which gave New Caledonia this unique status, says that the "country’s identity signs name, flag, anthem, design of bank notes will need to be devised in common to express both the Kanak identity and the future in which all will share". (It is assumed that this is to refer to the French collectivity and not necessarily a future independent New Caledonia, if one were to exist later.)

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