Martinique
Martinique is a Caribbean island that is an overseas department of France in the Caribbean Sea, north of Saint Lucia and south of Dominica. The island is dominated by Mount Pelee, which on 8 May 1902 erupted and completely destroyed the city of Saint Pierre, killing 30,000 inhabitants.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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Fort-de-France
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Fort-de-France is a commune and the capital city of Martinique, an overseas department and region of France located in the Caribbean.
Saint-Pierre
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Saint-Pierre is the former capital of the island of Martinique, nowadays a community of about 5,000 people.
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Le Diamant
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Le Diamant is a town and commune in the French overseas department of Martinique.
Le Carbet
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Le Carbet is a village and commune in the French overseas department of Martinique.
Trois-Ilets
Les Trois-Îlets is a resort town in the French overseas territory of Martinique, in the Caribbean.Photo: Jean & Nathalie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Martinique
- Type: State with 392,000 residents
- Description: island in the Lesser Antilles, overseas region and department of France
- 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
14.6447° or 14° 38' 41" northLongitude of centre
-61.0098° or 61° 0' 35" westPopulation
392,000Area
1,100 km² (425 miles²)Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)Capital
Fort-de-FranceCurrency
Euro (EUR)Phone code
.mqInternet domain
596OpenStreetMap ID
node 1251670424OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3570311Wikidata ID
Q17054Martinique Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Martinique
- Akan: Matinik
- Albanian: Martinika
- Albanian: Martinikë
- Amharic: ማርቲኒክ
- Arabic: Martinique
- Arabic: جزر المارتينيك
- Arabic: مارتينيك
- Aragonese: Martinica
- Armenian: Մարտինիկա
- Arpitan: Martinica
- Arpitan: Martinique
- Assamese: মাৰ্টিনিক
- Asturian: Martinica
- Azerbaijani: Martinik
- Azerbaijani: Martinika
- Bambara: Maritiniki
- Basque: Martinika
- Belarusian: Мартыніка
- Belarusian: Марцініка
- Bengali: মার্টিনিক
- Bengali: মার্তিনিক
- Bishnupriya: মার্টিনিক
- Bosnian: Martinik
- Bosnian: Martinique
- Breton: Martinik
- Bulgarian: Мартиника
- Burmese: မာတီနစ်
- Burmese: မာတီနိခ်
- Catalan: Martinica
- Cebuano: Martinika
- Cebuano: Martinique
- Central Bikol: Martinique
- Central Kurdish: مارتینیک
- Chechen: Мартиника
- Cherokee: ᎹᏘᏂᎨ
- Chinese: Martinique
- Chinese: 馬丁尼克
- Chinese: 馬提尼克
- Chinese: 马提尼克
- Chuvash: Мартиника
- Cornish: Martinik
- Corsican: Martinica
- Croatian: Martinik
- Croatian: Martinique
- Czech: Martinik
- Danish: Martinique
- Dhivehi: މާޓިނީކޫ
- Dimli (individual language): Martinik
- Dutch: MQ
- Dutch: MTQ
- Dutch: Martinique
- Dzongkha: མཱར་ཊི་ནིཀ
- Egyptian Arabic: مارتينيك
- English: Jouanacaëra
- English: MQ
- English: Madiana
- English: Madinina
- English: Martinica
- English: Matinik
- English: Matinino
- English: Matnik
- English: Territorial Collectivity of Martinique
- English: Wanakaera
- Erzya: Мартиника
- Esperanto: Martiniko
- Estonian: Martinique
- Ewe: Martiniki nutome
- Extremaduran: Martinica
- Faroese: Martinique
- Fiji Hindi: Martinique
- Finnish: Martinique
- French: 972
- French: Mart.
- French: Martinique
- Fulah: Martinik
- Gagauz: Martinik
- Galician: Martinica
- Galician: Martinique
- Ganda: Maritiniiki
- Georgian: მარტინიკა
- Georgian: მარტინიკი
- German: Martinique
- Greek: Μαρτινίκα
- Guianese Creole French: Lamatinik
- Guianese Creole French: Lanmantinik
- Guianese Creole French: Lanmatinik
- Guianese Creole French: Mantinik
- Guianese Creole French: Matinik
- Gujarati: માર્ટીનીક
- Haitian: Matinik
- Hakka Chinese: Martinique
- Hausa: Martinik
- Hausa: Martinique
- Hawaiian: Maritanika
- Hebrew: מרטיניק
- Hindi: मार्टिनिक
- Hindi: मार्टीनिक
- Hungarian: Martinique
- Icelandic: Martinique
- Icelandic: Martiník
- Ido: Martinik
- Igbo: Martinique
- Indonesian: Martinik
- Indonesian: Pulau Martinik
- Interlingua: Martinica
- Interlingue: Martinica
- Irish: Martainíc
- Irish: Martinique
- Italian: Martinica
- Jamaican Creole English: Maatiniik
- Japanese: マルティニーク
- Javanese: Martinik
- Javanese: Martinique
- Kalaallisut: Martinique
- Kannada: ಮಾರ್ಟಿನಿಕ್
- Kashmiri: مارٹِنِک
- Kashubian: Martinika
- Kazakh: Мартиника
- Khmer: ម៉ាទីនីក
- Kikuyu: Martiniki
- Kinyarwanda: Maritike
- Kirghiz: Мартиника
- Kongo: Madinina
- Korean: 마르티니크
- Korean: 말티니크
- Kurdish: Martinique
- Kurdish: Martînîk
- Lao: ມາຕິນີກ
- Latin: Martinica
- Latvian: Martinika
- Ligurian: Martinica
- Limburgan: Martinique
- Lingala: Martinike
- Lingala: Martiniki
- Lingua Franca Nova: Martinic
- Lithuanian: Martinika
- Lombard: Martinica
- Low German: Martinique
- Lower Sorbian: Martinique
- Luba-Katanga: Martiniki
- Luxembourgish: Departement Martinique
- Luxembourgish: Martinique
- Macedo-Romanian: Martinica
- Macedonian: Мартиник
- Malagasy: Martinika
- Malagasy: Martinique
- Malay: Martinique
- Malayalam: മാർട്ടിനിക്ക്
- Maltese: Martinika
- Maltese: Martinique
- Marathi: मार्टिनिक
- Min Dong Chinese: Martinique
- Min Nan Chinese: Martinique
- Mingrelian: მარტინიკა
- Mongolian: Мартиник
- Moroccan Arabic: مارتينيك
- Nepali: मार्टिनिक
- North Ndebele: Martinique
- Northern Frisian: Martinique
- Northern Sami: Martinique
- Norwegian: Martinique
- Norwegian Bokmål: Martinique
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Martinique
- Novial: Martinik
- Occitan (post 1500): Martinica
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Martinic
- Oriya: ମାର୍ଟିନିକ୍ୟୁ
- Ossetian: Мартиникæ
- Pampanga: Martinique
- Panjabi: ਮਾਰਟੀਨਿਕ
- Panjabi: ਮਾਰਟੀਨੀਕ
- Papiamento: Martinique
- Persian: مارتینیک
- Picard: Martinique
- Piemontese: Martinica
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Martinique
- Polish: Martynika
- Portuguese: Coletividade Territorial da Martinica
- Portuguese: Martinica
- Portuguese: Martinique
- Pushto: مارټینیک
- Quechua: Martinica
- Quechua: Martinik
- Romanian: Martinica
- Romanian: departamentul Martinica
- Romansh: Martinique
- Rundi: Maritiniki
- Russian: Мартиника
- Sango: Märtïnîki
- Sardinian: Martinica
- Scots: Martinique
- Scots: Matinik
- Scots: Matnik
- Scots: Territorial Collectivity o Martinique
- Scottish Gaelic: Mairtinic
- Scottish Gaelic: Martinique
- Serbian: Мартиник
- Serbo-Croatian: Martinik
- Serbo-Croatian: Martinique
- Shan: မႃးတိၼ်ႇၼိၵ်ႈ
- Shona: Martinique
- Sicilian: Martinica
- Silesian: Martyńika
- Sindhi: مارتينڪ
- Sinhala: මර්ටිනික්
- Sinhala: මර්ටිනිකේ
- Slovak: Martinik
- Slovenian: Martinik
- Somali: Maartinik
- South Azerbaijani: مارتینیک
- Spanish: Martinica
- Sundanese: Martinik
- Swahili: Martinique
- Swedish: Martinique
- Swiss German: Martinique
- Tagalog: Martinika
- Tagalog: Martinique
- Tajik: Мартиника
- Tajik: Мартиники
- Tamil: மர்தினிக்கு
- Tamil: மார்டினிக்
- Tamil: மார்டினியூ
- Tatar: Мартиника
- Telugu: మార్టినిక్
- Telugu: మార్టినీక్
- Thai: มาร์ตินีก
- Thai: มาร์ตีนิก
- Thai: มาร์ตีนีก
- Tigrinya: ማርቲኒክ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Mātiniki
- Tosk Albanian: Martinique
- Turkish: Martinik
- Turkish: Martinique
- Turkmen: Martinika
- Uighur: مارتىنىكا
- Ukrainian: Мартиніка
- Upper Sorbian: Martinique
- Urdu: مارٹینک
- Urdu: مارٹینیک
- Uzbek: Martinika
- Venetian: Martinica
- Venetian: Martìnega
- Vietnamese: Martinique
- Volapük: Martinikeän
- Waray (Philippines): Martinique
- Welsh: Martinique
- Western Frisian: Martinique
- Western Frisian: Martinyk
- Western Mari: Мартиника
- Western Panjabi: مارٹینیک
- Wolof: Martinik
- Wu Chinese: 马提尼克
- Yiddish: מאַרטיניק
- Yoruba: Matinikuwi
- Yoruba: Mártíníkì
- Yue Chinese: 馬提尼克
- Zulu: i-Martinique
- La Martinique
- Région de la Martinique
- 马提尼克群岛
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Martinique. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.