Bourail
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Commune of Bourail |
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| Location of the commune (in red) within New Caledonia | |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Sui generis collectivity | New Caledonia |
| Province | South Province |
| Mayor | Jean-Pierre Aïfa |
| 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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| INSEE/Postal code | 98803/ 98870 |
| 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 veins in the reference also has died the Polish patriot Antoni Berezowski , who in 1867 in Paris has made unsuccessful attempt at Russian emperor Аlexander II
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