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Guadeloupe (/ ˌ ɡ w ɑː d ə ˈ l uː p /; French: [ɡwad(ə)lup] ⓘ; Guadeloupean Creole French: Gwadloup, IPA:) is an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. [4]
Guadeloupe is an archipelago of more than 12 islands, as well as islets and rocks situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. [1] It is located in the Leeward Islands in the northern part of the Lesser Antilles , a partly volcanic island arc .
Grande-Terre Island (French: île de Grande-Terre / île de la Grande-Terre [ɡʁɑ̃d tɛʁ]; Antillean Creole: Gwanntè or Granntè) is the name of the eastern-half of Guadeloupe proper, in the Lesser Antilles. It is separated from the other half of Guadeloupe island, Basse-Terre, by a narrow sea channel called Rivière Salée (in English ...
Flag. Groupe d'organisation nationale de la Guadeloupe (also known as GONG) was a political group that campaigned for Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean, to have complete independence from France.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the city was one of the first sugar ports of Guadeloupe. Gradually Port-louis was dethroned by Le Moule and Pointe-à-Pitre. In the 19th century, the Domaine de Beauport was one of the most important sugar factories in the French West Indies. It closed permanently in 1990.
The following is a list of the 32 communes of the Guadeloupe overseas department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération CAP Excellence; Communauté d'agglomération Grand Sud Caraïbe; Communauté d'agglomération du Nord Basse-Terre; Communauté d'agglomération du ...
The Departmental Council of Guadeloupe is the deliberative assembly of the French department of Guadeloupe. It is based at the Palace of the General Council . Since 1 July 2021 its president is Guy Losbar , former mayor of Petit-Bourg .
The following is a list of the 21 cantons of the Guadeloupe department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March of 2015: [1] Les Abymes-1 Les Abymes-2