Lesser Antilles
Guadeloupe
Arrondissement de Pointe-à-Pitre

La Désirade

La Désirade is a commune in the overseas region and department of , in the . The commune of La Désirade is made up of the island of and the uninhabited located about 10 kilometres south of it.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: commune in Guadeloupe, France
  • Postal code: 97127

Places of Interest

Highlights include La Désirade Airport and Église Notre-Dame du Bon-Secours de la Désirade.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving , the easternmost island of . The airport is on the south shore, with water off both ends, and high terrain to the northeast.

Church
Photo: Aristoi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Church
Photo: Desiderio MAURO, CC0.
is a church.

La Désirade

Latitude
16.3082° or 16° 18′ 30″ north
Longitude
-61.0696° or 61° 4′ 11″ west
Population
1,390
Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)
Open location code
778W8W5J+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1548584490
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3579423
Wiki­data ID
Q3208509
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“La Désirade” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “La Désirade”
  • Aragonese: “La Désirade”
  • Arpitan: “La Désirade”
  • Asturian: “La Désirade”
  • Bambara: “La Désirade”
  • Basque: “La Désirade”
  • Bavarian: “La Désirade”
  • Breton: “Dézirad”
  • Buginese: “La Désirade (komun)”
  • Buginese: “La Désirade (komune)”
  • Buginese: “La Désirade”
  • Cajun French: “La Désirade”
  • Catalan: “Illa Desitjada”
  • Catalan: “Isla Deseada”
  • Catalan: “La Deseada”
  • Catalan: “La Désirade”
  • Catalan: “La Desitjada”
  • Cebuano: “La Désirade”
  • Chinese: “拉代西拉德”
  • Corsican: “La Désirade”
  • Croatian: “La Désirade”
  • Czech: “La Désirade”
  • Danish: “La Désirade”
  • Dutch: “La Désirade”
  • Esperanto: “La Désirade”
  • Estonian: “La Désirade”
  • Faroese: “La Désirade”
  • Finnish: “La Désirade”
  • French: “La Désirade”
  • Friulian: “La Désirade”
  • Galician: “La Désirade”
  • German: “La Désirade”
  • Greek: “Λα Ντεζιράντ”
  • Hebrew: “לה דזיראד”
  • Hungarian: “La Désirade”
  • Icelandic: “La Désirade”
  • Ido: “La Désirade”
  • Indonesian: “La Désirade”
  • Interlingua: “La Désirade”
  • Interlingue: “La Désirade”
  • Irish: “La Désirade”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “La Désirade”
  • Japanese: “ラ・デジラード (コミューン)”
  • Japanese: “ラ・デジラード”
  • Kabyle: “La Désirade”
  • Kalaallisut: “La Désirade”
  • Kongo: “La Désirade”
  • Ladin: “La Désirade”
  • Latin: “La Désirade”
  • Latvian: “La Désirade”
  • Ligurian: “La Désirade”
  • Limburgan: “La Désirade”
  • Lithuanian: “La Désirade”
  • Low German: “La Désirade”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Désirade”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Дезирад”
  • Mainfränkisch: “La Désirade”
  • Malagasy: “La Désirade”
  • Malay: “La Désirade (commune)”
  • Malay: “La Désirade (komun)”
  • Malay: “La Désirade”
  • Minangkabau: “La Désirade”
  • Narom: “La Désirade”
  • Neapolitan: “La Désirade”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Désirade”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Désirade”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Désirade”
  • Papiamento: “La Désirade”
  • Picard: “La Désirade”
  • Piemontese: “La Désirade”
  • Polish: “La Desirade (gmina)”
  • Polish: “La Désirade (gmina)”
  • Polish: “La Désirade”
  • Portuguese: “La désirade”
  • Portuguese: “La Désirade”
  • Prussian: “La Désirade”
  • Romagnol: “La Désirade”
  • Romanian: “La Désirade”
  • Romansh: “La Désirade”
  • Sardinian: “La Désirade”
  • Scots: “La Désirade”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “La Désirade”
  • Serbian: “La Désirade”
  • Sicilian: “La Désirade”
  • Sinhala: “ලා ඩෙසිරේඩ්, ග්වාඩලූප්”
  • Slovak: “La Désirade”
  • Spanish: “La Desirade”
  • Spanish: “La Désirade”
  • Swahili: “La Désirade”
  • Swedish: “La Désirade”
  • Swiss German: “La Désirade”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Дезирад”
  • Turkish: “La Désirade”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла Дезірад”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Дезірад”
  • Ukrainian: “Ля-Десірад”
  • Urdu: “لا دیسیرادی”
  • Venetian: “La Désirade”
  • Vietnamese: “La Désirade (commune)”
  • Vietnamese: “La Désirade”
  • Vlaams: “La Désirade”
  • Volapük: “La Désirade”
  • Walloon: “La Désirade”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Désirade (commune)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Désirade, Guadeloupe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Désirade”
  • Welsh: “La Désirade”
  • Wolof: “La Désirade”
  • Zulu: “La Désirade”
  • “La Désirade”

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