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The island of Grenada and port Saint-Georges in 1776. An aerial photo of the capital St George's. St. George's was founded by the French in 1650 when "La Grenade" was colonised by Jacques Dyel du Parquet, the governor of Martinique. The French began their colonisation with a series of skirmishes that virtually exterminated the island's native ...
Map of Grenada St. George's, Capital of Grenada. This is a list of towns, villages and populated places in Grenada. Grenada is an island nation in the south-eastern Caribbean Sea. It consists of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.
St. George's, Grenada, 2000. Saint George is one of the parishes of Grenada, located on the south-western end of the island.The capital of Grenada, St. George's, is located in this parish, and it is regarded as the most picturesque capital in the Caribbean. [1]
Grenada and its largely uninhabited outlying territories are the most southerly of the Windward Islands. [1] The Grenadine Islands chain consists of some 600 islets; those south of the Martinique Channel belong to Grenada, while those north of the channel are part of the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. [1]
The Caribbean island country of Grenada is divided into regions known as parishes. [1]A parish defines a territorial unit or region that, historically, was usually an area under the pastoral care served by a local church as an ecclesiastical administrative unit (see Parish) and later used by map-makers to set boundaries to an area of land.
Maurice Bishop International Airport (IATA: GND, ICAO: TGPY), formerly known as Point Salines Airport, is an international airport located in the parish of St. George's. The town of St. George's is about 5 mi (8.0 km) north of the airport and is the capital of the island nation of Grenada. The airport is located on Point Salines, the most ...
Module:Location map/data/Grenada is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Grenada. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Grenada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n eɪ d ə / ⓘ grə-NAY-də; Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad, [ɡweˈnad]) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about 100 miles (160 km) north of Trinidad and the South American mainland.