La Désirade

La Désirade is an island in the , in the of the Caribbean. It forms part of , an overseas region of France.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island of Lesser Antilles
  • Also known as: Deseada”, “Desirade Island”, “Île Désirade”, and “La Desirade

Places of Interest

Highlights include La Désirade and Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Calvaire de la Désirade.

Island
is a commune in the overseas region and department of , in the . The commune of is made up of the island of and the uninhabited located about 10 kilometres south of it.

Church
is a church, which is situated 3 km southwest of La Désirade.

La Désirade

Latitude
16.31838° or 16° 19′ 6″ north
Longitude
-61.05194° or 61° 3′ 7″ west
Elevation
243 metres (797 feet)
IATA airport code
DSD
Open location code
778W8W9X+96
Geo­Names ID
3579050
Wiki­data ID
Q1024682
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“La Désirade” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: لا ديزيراد
  • Belarusian: Востраў Дэзірад
  • Belarusian: Дэзірад
  • Breton: Dézirad
  • Catalan: La Desirade
  • Cebuano: La Désirade
  • Chechen: Ла-ДезигӀад
  • Chinese: 拉代西拉德岛
  • Chinese: 拉代西拉德島
  • Czech: La Désirade
  • Danish: La Desirade
  • Danish: La Désirade
  • Dutch: La Desirade
  • Dutch: La Désirade
  • Esperanto: Desirade
  • Esperanto: Désirade
  • Esperanto: La Désirade
  • Finnish: La Désirade
  • French: Île de la Désirade
  • French: La Désirade (île)
  • French: La Désirade
  • French: TFFA
  • Galician: La Désirade
  • German: La Desirade
  • German: La Désirade
  • Greek: Λα Ντεζιράντ
  • Hebrew: לה דזיראד
  • Indonesian: La Désirade
  • Indonesian: Pulau La Désirade
  • Italian: La Désirade
  • Japanese: ラ・デジラード島
  • Lithuanian: Deziradas
  • Lithuanian: La Deziradas
  • Macedonian: Ла Дезирад
  • Northern Frisian: La Désirade
  • Norwegian Bokmål: La Désirade
  • Norwegian: La Désirade
  • Polish: La Désirade
  • Russian: Дезирад
  • Russian: Ла-Дезирад
  • Serbian: La Dezirad
  • Serbian: Ла Дезирад
  • Serbo-Croatian: La Désirade
  • Serbo-Croatian: La Dezirad
  • Spanish: Isla La Deseada
  • Spanish: La Deseada (isla)
  • Spanish: La Deseada
  • Spanish: La Desirade
  • Spanish: La Désirade
  • Swedish: Ile La Desirade
  • Swedish: Ile La Désirade
  • Swedish: Île La Desirade
  • Swedish: Île La Désirade
  • Swedish: La Desirade
  • Swedish: La Désirade
  • Thai: La Désirade
  • Thai: เกาะลาเดซีราด
  • Thai: ลาเดซีราด
  • Turkish: La Désirade
  • Ukrainian: Ля-Десірад
  • Urdu: لا دیسیراد
  • Vietnamese: La Désirade

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