Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe, known as Gwadloup in the local creole, and sometimes known as the Butterfly Island on account of the shape of two of its major islands, is a group of islands in the eastern Caribbean, and is a French overseas department, southeast of Puerto Rico.Photo: LPLT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Pointe-à-Pitre
Photo: KoS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pointe-à-Pitre is the second most populous commune of Guadeloupe.
Sainte-Anne
Photo: Grook Da Oger, CC BY 2.5.
Sainte-Anne is a small city on the Grande-Terre Island, the eastern wing of the main Guadeloupe island.
Basse-Terre
Photo: Filo gèn', CC BY-SA 4.0.
Basse-Terre is the western island of the pair of islands that make up the principal land mass of Guadeloupe.
Destinations
Grande-Terre
Photo: KoS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grande-Terre Island is the name of the eastern-half of Guadeloupe proper, in the Lesser Antilles.
Les Saintes
Photo: Les Saintes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The archipelago of Les Saintes belongs to the Guadeloupe FWI.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Guadeloupe
- Type: State with 405,000 residents
- Description: overseas region and department of France, and island in the Caribbean
- Language: French
- Categories: region of France, overseas department and region of France, dependent territory and locality
- Location: Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
16.246° or 16° 14' 46" northLongitude of centre
-61.551° or 61° 33' 4" westPopulation
405,000Area
1,780 km² (687 miles²)Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)Capital
Basse-TerreCurrency
Euro (EUR)Phone code
.gpInternet domain
590OpenStreetMap ID
node 433483535OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3579143Wikidata ID
Q17012Guadeloupe Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Guadeloupe
- Akan: Guwadelup
- Albanian: Guadalupa
- Albanian: Guadelupë
- Amharic: ጉዋደሉፕ
- Amharic: ጓድሉፕ
- Arabic: Guadeloupe
- Arabic: جوادلوب
- Arabic: غوادلوب
- Aragonese: Guadalupe
- Armenian: Գվադելուպա
- Arpitan: Goadeloupe
- Assamese: গুৱাডেলুপ
- Asturian: Guadalupe
- Azerbaijani: Qvadelupa
- Bambara: Gwadelup
- Basque: Guadalupe
- Belarusian: Гвадэлупа
- Belarusian: Гвадэлюпа
- Bengali: গুয়াদলুপ
- Bengali: গুয়াদেলৌপ
- Bishnupriya: গুৱাডালুপে
- Bosnian: Guadeloupe
- Bosnian: Gvadalupe
- Breton: Gwadaloup
- Breton: Gwadeloup
- Bulgarian: Гваделупа
- Burmese: ဂွါဒလ်ကျွန်း
- Burmese: ဂွါဒီလု
- Catalan: Guadalupe
- Cebuano: Guadeloupe
- Central Kurdish: گوادلۆپ
- Chechen: Гваделупа
- Cherokee: ᏩᏓᎷᏇ
- Chinese: Guadeloupe
- Chinese: 瓜地洛普
- Chinese: 瓜德罗普
- Chinese: 瓜德羅普
- Cornish: Gwadeloup
- Corsican: Guadalupa
- Croatian: Guadalupe
- Croatian: Gvadalupa
- Croatian: Gvadelup
- Czech: Guadeloupe
- Danish: Guadeloupe
- Dhivehi: ގޯޑިލޫޕު
- Dimli (individual language): Guadeloupe
- Dutch: GLP
- Dutch: GP
- Dutch: Guadeloupe
- Dzongkha: གོ་ཌེ་ལུ་པེ
- Egyptian Arabic: جوادلوب
- English: 971
- English: Gwada
- English: Gwadloup
- English: Karukera
- English: gp
- Erzya: Гваделупа
- Esperanto: GP
- Esperanto: Gvadelupo
- Estonian: Guadeloupe
- Ewe: Guadelupe nutome
- Faroese: Guadeloupe
- Fiji Hindi: Guadeloupe
- Finnish: Guadeloupe
- French: 971
- French: Guadeloupe
- Fulah: Gwaadalup
- Gagauz: Guadeloupe
- Galician: Guadalupe, Francia
- Galician: Guadalupe
- Ganda: Gwadalupe
- Georgian: გვადელუპა
- Georgian: გვადელუპე
- German: Guadeloupe
- German: Gwada
- German: Gwadloup
- Greek: Γουαδελούπη
- Guianese Creole French: Gwadloup
- Guianese Creole French: Lagwadloup
- Gujarati: ગ્વાડેલોપ
- Haitian: Gwadloup
- Hakka Chinese: Kôa-tet-lò-phú
- Hausa: Guadeloupe
- Hausa: Gwadaluf
- Hawaiian: Kuakalupa
- Hawaiian: Kuakelupa
- Hebrew: גוואדלופ
- Hindi: गुआदेलूप
- Hindi: ग्वाडेलूप
- Hindi: ग्वाडेलोप
- Hungarian: Guadeloupe
- Icelandic: Gvadelúpeyjar
- Ido: Guadelupa
- Igbo: Guadeloupe
- Indonesian: Guadeloupe
- Interlingua: Guadeloupe
- Irish: Guadalúip
- Italian: Guadalupa
- Jamaican Creole English: Guadiluup
- Jamaican Creole English: Gwadiluup
- Japanese: グアドループ
- Javanese: Guadeloupe
- Javanese: Guadélup
- Kalaallisut: Guadeloupe
- Kannada: ಗುಡೆಲೋಪ್
- Kashmiri: گَواڑیلوپ
- Kazakh: Гваделупа
- Khmer: ហ្គោដឺឡុប
- Kikuyu: Gwadelupe
- Kinyarwanda: Gwadelupe
- Kirghiz: Гваделупа
- Kongo: Guadeloupe
- Korean: 과들루프
- Kurdish: Guadeloupe
- Ladin: Guadeloupe
- Lao: ກົວດາລູບ
- Latin: Guadalupa
- Latin: Guadalupia
- Latvian: Gvadelupa
- Ligurian: Guadaluppa
- Limburgan: Guadeloupe
- Lingala: Gwadelupe
- Lingala: Gwadɛlupɛ
- Lingua Franca Nova: Guadelupe
- Lithuanian: Gvadelupa
- Low German: Guadeloupe
- Lower Sorbian: Guadelupa
- Luba-Katanga: Ngwadelupe
- Luxembourgish: Departement Guadeloupe
- Luxembourgish: Guadeloupe
- Macedo-Romanian: Guadalupe
- Macedonian: Гвадалупе
- Macedonian: Гваделуп
- Malagasy: Goadelopy
- Malagasy: Guadeloupe
- Malay: Guadeloupe
- Malayalam: ഗ്വാഡലൂപ്പ്
- Malayalam: ഗ്വാദെലൂപ്
- Maltese: Guadeloupe
- Maltese: Gwadalup
- Marathi: ग्वाडेलोउपे
- Marathi: ग्वादेलोप
- Min Dong Chinese: Guadeloupe
- Min Nan Chinese: Guadeloupe
- Mingrelian: გვადელუპა
- Mongolian: Гваделуп
- Moroccan Arabic: غوادلوب
- Nepali: ग्वाडलप
- Nepali: ग्वाडेलुप
- Nepali: ग्वादलुप
- North Ndebele: Guadeloupe
- Northern Frisian: Guadeloupe
- Northern Sami: Guadeloupe
- Norwegian: Guadeloupe
- Norwegian Bokmål: Guadeloupe
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Guadeloupe
- Novial: Guadelupe
- Occitan (post 1500): Guadalope
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Guadelūp
- Oriya: ଗୁଆଡେଲୋପ୍
- Ossetian: Гваделупæ
- Pampanga: Guadeloupe
- Panjabi: ਗੁਆਡਲੂਪ
- Panjabi: ਗੁਆਡੇਲੋਪ
- Papiamento: Guadeloupe
- Papiamento: Guadelupe
- Persian: جزیره گوادلوپ
- Persian: گوادلوپ
- Picard: Guadeloupe
- Piemontese: Guadalupa
- Polish: Gwadelupa
- Portuguese: Guadalupe
- Portuguese: Guadeloupe
- Portuguese: Gwadloup
- Pushto: ګوادلوپ
- Quechua: Guadalupe
- Quechua: Wathalupi
- Romanian: Guadelupa
- Romanian: departamentul Guadelupa
- Romansh: Guadeloupe
- Rundi: Gwadelupe
- Russian: Гваделупа
- Sango: Guadelûpu
- Sardinian: Guadalupa
- Scots: Guadeloupe
- Scots: Gwadloup
- Scottish Gaelic: Guadalup
- Scottish Gaelic: Guadeloupe
- Serbian: Гвадалупа
- Serbian: Гваделуп
- Serbo-Croatian: Guadeloupe
- Serbo-Croatian: Gvadalupa
- Shan: ၵႂႃးတီႇလုပ်ႈ
- Shona: Guadeloupe
- Sicilian: Guadalupa
- Sicilian: Guadeloupe
- Sindhi: گواڊیلوپ
- Sinhala: ගඩෙලුපේ
- Sinhala: ග්වෝඩලෝප්
- Slovak: Guadeloupe
- Slovenian: Guadeloupe
- Slovenian: Gvadelup
- Somali: Guadeluub
- South Azerbaijani: قوادلوپ
- Spanish: Guadalupe
- Spanish: Santa María de Guadalupe
- Sundanese: Guadelup
- Swahili: Guadeloupe
- Swedish: Guadeloupe
- Swiss German: Guadeloupe
- Tagalog: Guadalupe
- Tajik: Гваделупа
- Tamil: குடியலூப்பே
- Tamil: குவாதலூப்பு
- Tamil: குவாதலூப்பே
- Tamil: க்வாதேலோப்
- Tatar: Гваделупа
- Telugu: గ్వాడెలోప్
- Thai: กวาเดอลูป
- Thai: กัวเดอลุป
- Tigrinya: ጉዋደሉፕ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Kuatalupe
- Tosk Albanian: Guadeloupe
- Turkish: Guadeloupe
- Turkmen: Gwadelupa
- Uighur: گىۋادېلۇپ
- Uighur: گۇئادەلوپە
- Ukrainian: Гваделупа
- Urdu: گواڈیلوپ
- Uzbek: Gvadelupa
- Uzbek: Gvadelupe
- Venetian: Guadalupa
- Vietnamese: Guadeloupe
- Volapük: Gvadelupeän
- Walloon: Gwadeloupe
- Waray (Philippines): Guadeloupe
- Welsh: Guadeloupe
- Western Frisian: Guadeloupe
- Western Frisian: Gûadelûp
- Western Mari: Гваделупа
- Western Panjabi: گواڈلوپ
- Wolof: Guwaadalup
- Wolof: Guwaadelup
- Wu Chinese: 瓜德罗普
- Yiddish: גוואַדעלופ
- Yoruba: Gadelope
- Yoruba: Guadeloupe
- Yue Chinese: 瓜德羅普
- Zulu: i-Guadeloupe
- Historic: Guadaloupe
- Région de la Guadeloupe
- 瓜德罗普岛
Popular Destinations in Lesser Antilles
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