Guadeloupe
French owerseas region an depairtment, an island in the Lesser Antilles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guadeloupe (French pronunciation: [ɡwadlup]; Guadeloupean Creole: Gwadloup) is a Caribbean island locatit in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, wi a land aurie o 1,628 square kilometres (629 sq. mi) an a population of 400,000.[1] It is an owerseas region o Fraunce, consistin o a single owerseas depairtment. Its depairtmental code is "971". As the ither owerseas depairtments, Guadeloupe is an integral pairt o the Republic an aw. Besides Guadeloupe island, the smawer islands o Marie-Galante, La Désirade, an the Îles des Saintes are includit in Guadeloupe.
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Owerseas region an depairtment o Fraunce | |
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| Kintra |  Fraunce |
| Prefectur | Basse-Terre |
| Departments | 1 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Preses o the General Cooncil | Jacques Gillot |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1628 km2 (629 sq mi) |
| Population (1 Januar 2008)[1] | |
| • Total | 405,500 |
| • Density | 250/km2 (650/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-04 (ECT) |
| ISO 3166 code | GP |
| GDP (2006)[citation needit] | Rankit {{{GDP_rank}}} |
| Tot | €7.75 billion (US${{{GDP_US$}}} bn) |
| NUTS Region | FR9 |
| Website | www |
As pairt o Fraunce, Guadeloupe is pairt o the European Union an the Eurozone; hence, as for aw Eurozone kintras, its currency is the Euro.[2] Housomeivver, Guadeloupe is no pairt o the Schengen Aurie. The prefectur an the caipital o Guadeloupe is Basse-Terre. Christopher Columbus namit the island Santa María de Guadalupe in 1493 efter the Virgin Mary, veneratit in the Spaingie toun o Guadalupe, in Extremadura.
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