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Nouvelle-Galles du Sud

/nu.vɛl.ɡal dy syd/

proper noun/nu.vɛl.ɡal dy syd/

New South Wales (a state of Australia, located in the southeastern part of the continent; a former British colony from 1788 to 1901)

From nouvelle (feminine of nouveau (“new”)) + Galles (“Wales”) + sud (“south”); calque of English New South Wales.