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Grenada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n eɪ d ə / ⓘ grə-NAY-də; Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad, ) 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.
The U.S. government defended its invasion of Grenada as an action to protect American citizens living on the island, including medical students, and asserted it had been carried out at the request of the Governor-General. [20]
Grenada, known as the Spice Isle because of its production of nutmeg and mace, is the largest at 310 square kilometers, or about the size of the city of Detroit. [1] The island is oval shaped and framed by a jagged southern coastline; its maximum width is thirty-four kilometers, and its maximum length is nineteen kilometers. [ 1 ]
Geographical and historical treatment of Grenada, oval-shaped island country of the West Indies. It is the southernmost island of the north-south arc of the Lesser Antilles, lying in the eastern Caribbean Sea about 100 miles (160 km) north of the coast of Venezuela.
Grenada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n eɪ d ə / grə-NAY-də; Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea that received its independence from the United Kingdom in 1974. Its capital is St. George's.
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Provides an overview of Grenada, as well as key dates and facts about this Caribbean island nation.
Celebrating its 50th year of independence in 2024, the verdant island of Grenada steps into the limelight as a land of mona monkeys and artisanal rum.
Grenada was the headquarters of the government of the British Windward Islands (1885–1958) and a member of the West Indies Federation (1958–62). It became a self-governing state in association with Britain in 1967 and gained its independence in 1974.
The history of Grenada in the Caribbean, part of the Lesser Antilles group of islands, covers a period from the earliest human settlements to the establishment of the contemporary nationstate of Grenada. First settled by indigenous peoples, Grenada by the time of European contact was inhabited by the Caribs. British colonists killed most of the Caribs on the island and established plantations ...