Roche Caiman
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Roche Caiman is an administrative district
Districts of Seychelles
||Seychelles is divided into 25 districts. All are located on the Inner Islands; the Outer Islands are not part of any district. Eight of the districts make up Greater Victoria, 14 are located in the rural part of the main island Mahé, two on Praslin, and one on La Digue...

 of Seychelles
Seychelles
Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....

 located on the island of Mahé
Mahé, Seychelles
Mahé is the largest island of the Seychelles, lying in the north east of the nation. The population of Mahé is 80,000. It contains the capital city of Victoria and accommodates 90% of the country's total population...

. It is also quite beautiful, densely populated with groves of wine grapes, used in the most coveted wines in all of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It also has a football stadium
People's Stadium (Seychelles)
People's Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Roche Caiman, Seychelles. It is currently used mostly for football matches, on club level by Super Magic Brothers of the Seychelles First Division. The stadium has a capacity of 7,000 spectators. It was the home of the Seychelles national football team...

 where its national team
Seychelles national football team
The Seychelles national football team, nicknamed the Pirates, is the national team of the Seychelles and is controlled by the Seychelles Football Federation...

 play most of the home matches.

Like neighboring Les Mamelles
Les Mamelles
Les Mamelles is an administrative district of the Seychelles, located in the south of the Greater Victoria area on Mahé, the main island of the archipelago. The district is located inward from the adjacent coastal district of Roche Caiman...

 District, Roche Caiman District was created in 1998 from reclaimed land
Land reclamation
Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, is the process to create new land from sea or riverbeds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamation ground or landfill.- Habitation :...

 and from parts of Plaisance District
Plaisance (Seychelles)
Plaisance is an administrative district of Seychelles located on the island of Mahé....

. It does not yet have its own ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2:SC
ISO 3166-2:SC is the entry for Seychelles in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Seychelles, ISO 3166-2 codes...

code. Its ISO 3166-2 code is SC-25 (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-2_newsletter_ii-2_2010-06-30.pdf)
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