Guadeloupe
— THE COUNTRY —
Overseas department and region of France
Guadeloupe and Gwadloup is an overseas department and region of the French Republic in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and two Îles des Saintes—and 30 uninhabited islets and 3 inhabited islets. It is south of Antigua and Barbuda and Montserrat and north of Dominica. The capital city is Basse-Terre, on the southern west coast of Basse-Terre Island; the most populous city is Les Abymes and the main centre of business is neighbouring Pointe-à-Pitre, both on Grande-Terre Island. It had a population of 395,726 in 2024.
Text: Wikipedia — GuadeloupeCC BY-SA 4.0 · revised 2026-07-29
— FACTS —
- Capital
- Basse-Terre
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Drives on the
- Right
- Calling code
- +590
- Top-level domain
- .gp
- Independence / founding
- 21 Mar 1946
- Highest point
- Soufrière (1,467 m)
The World Bank does not publish figures for Guadeloupe, so this note carries no economic or social statistics.
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— TRADE —
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