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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 , and is a overseas department, southeast of .
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is the second most populous commune of Guadeloupe. Guadeloupe is an overseas region and department of located in the , of which it is a sous-préfecture, being the seat of the arrondissement of .

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is a small city on the Grande-Terre Island, the eastern wing of the main Guadeloupe island. Among the most touristic places in Guadeloupe, it offers all kinds of facilities and boast great sandy beaches lined with palm trees.

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is the western island of the pair of islands that make up the principal land mass of Guadeloupe. It is full of waterfalls, rivers and streams, thermal springs, beaches of golden or black sand and a tropical rain forest covering its mountain range.

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The archipelago of belongs to the Guadeloupe FWI. It consists of two main islands namely Terre de Haut et Terre de Bas, two small islets.

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Island is the name of the eastern-half of Guadeloupe proper, in the . It is separated from the other half of Guadeloupe island, , by a narrow sea channel called Rivière Salée. , in , is the northernmost point of Guadeloupe island.

Guadeloupe

Latitude of center
16.246° or 16° 14′ 46″ north
Longitude of center
-61.551° or 61° 33′ 4″ west
Population
405,000
Area
1,780 km² (687 miles²)
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.gp
Internet domain
590
Open­Street­Map ID
node 433483535
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3579143
Wiki­data ID
Q17012
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Guadeloupe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Guadeloupe”
  • Akan: “Guwadelup”
  • Albanian: “Guadalupa”
  • Albanian: “Guadelupë”
  • Amharic: “ጉዋደሉፕ”
  • Amharic: “ጓድሉፕ”
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “Gwaadluup”
  • Arabic: “جوادلوب”
  • Arabic: “غوادلوب”
  • Aragonese: “Guadalupe”
  • Armenian: “Գվադելուպա”
  • Arpitan: “Goadeloupe”
  • Assamese: “গুৱাডেলুপ”
  • Asturian: “Guadalupe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qvadelupa”
  • Balinese: “Guadeloupe”
  • 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”
  • Erzya: “Гваделупа”
  • Esperanto: “GP”
  • Esperanto: “Gvadelupo”
  • Estonian: “Guadeloupe”
  • Ewe: “Guadelupe nutome”
  • Faroese: “Guadeloupe”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Guadeloupe”
  • Finnish: “Guadeloupe”
  • French: “Guadeloupe”
  • Fulah: “Gwaadalup”
  • Gagauz: “Guadeloupe”
  • Galician: “Guadalupe, Francia”
  • Galician: “Guadalupe”
  • Ganda: “Gwadalupe”
  • Georgian: “გვადელუპა”
  • Georgian: “გვადელუპე”
  • German: “Guadeloupe”
  • German: “Gwada”
  • German: “Gwadloup”
  • Gilaki: “گۊادلۊپ”
  • Greek: “Γουαδελούπη”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Gwadloup”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lagwadloup”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્વાડેલોપ”
  • Haitian: “Gwadloup”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Guadeloupe”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kôa-tet-lò-phú”
  • 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: “Guadalupe”
  • 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”
  • Maori: “Kuarerupe”
  • Marathi: “ग्वाडेलोउपे”
  • Marathi: “ग्वादेलोप”
  • Mazanderani: “گوادالوپ”
  • 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 Bokmål: “Guadeloupe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guadeloupe”
  • Norwegian: “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”
  • Pushto: “ګوادېلوپ”
  • Quechua: “Guadalupe”
  • Quechua: “Wathalupi”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Guadelupa”
  • Romanian: “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: “ග්වාඩලූප්”
  • Sinhala: “ග්වෝඩලෝප්”
  • Slovak: “Guadeloupe”
  • Slovenian: “Guadeloupe”
  • Slovenian: “Gvadelup”
  • Somali: “Guadeluub”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوادلوپ”
  • Spanish: “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: “گۇئادەلوپە”
  • Uighur: “گىۋادېلۇپ”
  • 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”
  • Yakut: “Гваделупа”
  • Yiddish: “גוואַדעלופ”
  • Yoruba: “Gadelope”
  • Yoruba: “Guadeloupe”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓜德羅普”
  • Zulu: “i-Guadeloupe”
  • “GP”

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