Lifou

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Commune of Lifou
Orbital photo of Lifou Island taken from space, November 1990. Courtesy of NASA.
Administration
Country	France
Sui generis collectivity	New Caledonia
Province	Islands Province (provincial seat)
Mayor	Neko Hnepeune
Statistics
Altitude	0 m–104 m (avg. 30 m)
Land area¹	1,207.1 km²
Population² (2004 census)	10,320
- Density (2004 census)	8.5/km²
- Ethnic distribution   (1996 census)	Kanaks 96.9% Europeans 2.6% Polynesians 0.1% Other 0.4%
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	98814/ 98820
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: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Lifou is a commune in the Islands Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

The commune of Lifou is made up of Lifou Island, its smaller neighbour Tiga Island, and several islets in between these two. All these islands lie among the Loyalty Islands, to the northeast of New Caledonia's mainland.

The town of Wé, on Lifou Island, is the administrative centre of the commune of Lifou as well as the provincial seat of the Islands Province.

[edit] Famous people

Christian Karembeu, the famous French international football (soccer) player, was born in Lifou.