Lesser Antilles
Guadeloupe
Arrondissement de la Basse-Terre

Vieux-Fort

Vieux-Fort is a commune in the French overseas department of . It is located on .
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  • Type: Town with 1,790 residents
  • Description: French commune in Guadeloupe
  • Also known as: “Vieux Fort”, “Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe”, and “Vyéfò”
  • Postal code: 97141

Places of Interest

Highlights include Phare et batterie de Vieux-Fort and Église de Vieux-Fort.

Lighthouse
Photo: Stéphane Batigne, CC BY 3.0.
is a lighthouse.

Church
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is a church.

Volcano
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is a volcano.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gourbeyre and Trois-Rivières.

Town
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is a commune in the overseas region and department of , in the . It is a suburb of the city of . The commune of was in the past a pivotal point in the defense of Guadeloupe's . is situated 5 km north of Vieux-Fort.

Town
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is a commune in the overseas department of , and the chef-lieu of the Canton of . It is on the south coast of the island of . It is surrounded with the towns of , Vieux-Fort and Gourbeyre. is situated 6 km northeast of Vieux-Fort.

Locality
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is a locality.

Vieux-Fort

Latitude
15.9503° or 15° 57′ 1″ north
Longitude
-61.6958° or 61° 41′ 45″ west
Population
1,790
Elevation
289 metres (948 feet)
Open location code
777WX823+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 506589661
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6690389
Wiki­data ID
Q996207
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Vieux-Fort” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Arabic: “فيو فور”
  • Aragonese: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Arpitan: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Asturian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Bambara: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Basque: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Bavarian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Breton: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Buginese: “Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe”
  • Buginese: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Cajun French: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Catalan: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Cebuano: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Chechen: “Вьоь-ФогӀ”
  • Chinese: “维约堡”
  • Corsican: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Croatian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Czech: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Danish: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Dutch: “Vieux-Fort (Guadeloupe)”
  • Dutch: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Esperanto: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Estonian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Faroese: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Finnish: “Vieux-Fort”
  • French: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Friulian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Galician: “Vieux-Fort”
  • German: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Greek: “Βιέ-Φορ”
  • Hungarian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Icelandic: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Ido: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Indonesian: “Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe”
  • Indonesian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Interlingua: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Interlingue: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Irish: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Italian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Kabyle: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Kalaallisut: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Kongo: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Ladin: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Latin: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Latvian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Ligurian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Limburgan: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Lithuanian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Low German: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Macedonian: “Вје Фор”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Malagasy: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Malay: “Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe”
  • Malay: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Minangkabau: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Narom: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Neapolitan: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vieux-Fort”
  • Papiamento: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Picard: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Piemontese: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Polish: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Portuguese: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Prussian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Romagnol: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Romanian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Romansh: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Sardinian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Scots: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Serbian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Sicilian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Sinhala: “වීක්ස්-ෆෝර්ට්, ග්වාඩලූප්”
  • Slovak: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Spanish: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Swahili: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Swedish: “Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe”
  • Swedish: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Swiss German: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Tatar: “Вьё-Фор”
  • Turkish: “Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe”
  • Turkish: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Ukrainian: “В’є-Фор”
  • Ukrainian: “Вє-Фор”
  • Venetian: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Vietnamese: “Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe”
  • Vietnamese: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Vlaams: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Volapük: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Walloon: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vieux-Fort”
  • Welsh: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Wolof: “Vieux-Fort”
  • Zulu: “Vieux-Fort”
  • “Vieux-Fort”

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