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South Province Province Sud | |
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 Flag | |
 Location of South Province in New Caledonia | |
| Country | France |
| Collectivity | New Caledonia |
| Seat | Nouméa |
| Government | |
| • President | Sonia Backès |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,012 km2 (2,707 sq mi) |
| Population (2019 census) | |
• Total | 203,144 |
| • Density | 28.97/km2 (75.03/sq mi) |
| Communities (2019) | |
| • European | 29.68% |
| • Kanak | 28.79% |
| • Multiracial | 12.53% |
| • Wallisian/Futunan | 10.82% |
| • Tahitian | 2.47% |
| • Indonesian | 1.65% |
| • Vietnamese | 1.07% |
| • Ni-Vanuatu | 1.07% |
| • Other Asian | 0.53% |
| • Other | 11.3% |
| Website | www |
TheSouth Province (French:Province Sud) is one of threeadministrative divisions[1] inNew Caledonia.[2] It corresponds to the southern and southwestern portion of theNew Caledonian mainland.
It is by far the most economically developed and most urbanized part of thearchipelago and indeed in the entireMelanesian region. The South Province is also the only part of New Caledonia - and Melanesia - where ethnicMelanesians do not constitute an absolute majority of the population, and the only province where anti-independence groups control the provincial government.[1]
The provincial assembly and executive are inNouméa. The administrative services of the French state, however, are located inLa Foa, with a Deputy Commissioner of the Republic (commissaire délégué de la République), akin to asubprefect ofmetropolitan France, in residence there. La Foa was chosen by the French central State in the late 1980s to counterbalance the overwhelming weight of Nouméa in New Caledonia
The central State administrative services in La Foa are not to be confused with the central State administrative services in Nouméa. The former manage local matters at the provincial level, whereas the latter, with the High Commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia at their head, manage territorial matters for the whole of New Caledonia.
Of the 40 seats in the provincial assembly, theRally-UMP holds 15, theCaledonia Together has 12, theFuture Together has 5, theKanak and Socialist National Liberation Front has 4, theMovement for Diversity has 2, the Union for a Caledonian Destiny has 1 and there is 1miscellaneous right (ex-Rally for Caledonia).
21°55′S166°20′E / 21.917°S 166.333°E /-21.917; 166.333
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