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.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Fort-de-France and Saint-Pierre.
Fort-de-France
Fort-de-France is the largest city in and capital of Martinique.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Sainte-Anne and Trois-Ilets.
Trois-Ilets
Les Trois-Îlets is a resort town in the French overseas territory of Martinique, in the Caribbean.
Le Diamant
Le Diamant is a town and commune in the French overseas department of Martinique.
Martinique
- State with about 361,000 residents
- …has Fort-de-France as its capital
- …uses the Euro (EUR)
- …has the phone code 596
- …uses the internet domain .mq
- …covers 1,100 km² (425 miles²)
- Description: island in the Lesser Antilles, overseas region and department of France
- Also known as“Jouanacaëra”“La Martinique”“Madiana”“Madinina”“Martinica”“Matinik”“Matinino”“Matnik”“Région de la Martinique”“Territorial Collectivity of Martinique”“Wanakaera”“马提尼克群岛”
- Language: French
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Latitude of center
14.6447° or 14° 38′ 41″ north
Longitude of center
-61.0098° or 61° 0′ 35″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Martinique” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Martinique”
- Akan: “Matinik”
- Albanian: “Martinika”
- Albanian: “Martinikë”
- Amharic: “ማርቲኒክ”
- Arabic: “جزر المارتينيك”
- Arabic: “مارتينيك”
- Aragonese: “Martinica”
- Armenian: “Մարտինիկա”
- Arpitan: “Martinica”
- Arpitan: “Martinique”
- Assamese: “মাৰ্টিনিক”
- Asturian: “Martinica”
- Azerbaijani: “Martinik”
- Azerbaijani: “Martinika”
- Balinese: “Martinique”
- 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: “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: “Martinique”
- Dzongkha: “མཱར་ཊི་ནིཀ”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مارتينيك”
- Erzya: “Мартиника”
- Esperanto: “Martiniko”
- Estonian: “Martinique”
- Ewe: “Martiniki nutome”
- Extremaduran: “Martinica”
- Faroese: “Martinique”
- Fiji Hindi: “Martinique”
- Finnish: “Martinique”
- French: “Iguanacaera”
- French: “île aux fleurs”
- French: “Jouanacaera”
- French: “Mart.”
- French: “Martinique”
- Fulah: “Martinik”
- Ga: “Martinique”
- Gagauz: “Martinik”
- Galician: “Martinica”
- Galician: “Martinique”
- Ganda: “Maritiniiki”
- Georgian: “მარტინიკა”
- Georgian: “მარტინიკი”
- German: “Martinique”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Martinica”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Martinique”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Matinik”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Matnik”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Territorial Collectivity of Martinique”
- Gilaki: “مارتينيک”
- 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: “मार्टीनिक”
- Hungarian: “Martinique”
- Icelandic: “Martiník”
- Icelandic: “Martinique”
- 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: “Martînîk”
- Kurdish: “Martinique”
- Lao: “ມາຕິນີກ”
- Latin: “Martinica”
- Latvian: “Martinika”
- Ligurian: “Martinica”
- Limburgan: “Martinique”
- Lingala: “Martinike”
- Lingala: “Martiniki”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Martinic”
- Lithuanian: “Martinika”
- Livvi: “Martinique”
- 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 Bokmål: “Martinique”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Martinique”
- Norwegian: “Martinique”
- Novial: “Martinik”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Martinica”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Martinic”
- Oriya: “ମାର୍ଟିନିକ୍ୟୁ”
- Ossetian: “Мартиникæ”
- Pampanga: “Martinique”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਰਟੀਨਿਕ”
- 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: “departamentul Martinica”
- Romanian: “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”
- Sindhi: “مارٽينيڪ”
- Sinhala: “මාර්ටිනික්”
- 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”
- Talysh: “Martinika”
- Tamil: “மர்தினிக்கு”
- Tamil: “மார்டினிக்”
- Tamil: “மார்டினியூ”
- Tatar: “Мартиника”
- Telugu: “మార్టినీక్”
- Thai: “มาร์ตินีก”
- Tigrinya: “ማርቲኒክ”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Mātiniki”
- Turkish: “Martinik”
- Turkish: “Martinique”
- Turkmen: “Martinika”
- Twi: “Martinique”
- Uighur: “مارتىنىكا”
- Ukrainian: “Мартиніка”
- Upper Sorbian: “Martinique”
- Urdu: “مارٹینک”
- Urdu: “مارٹینیک”
- Uzbek: “Martinika”
- Venetian: “Martìnega”
- Venetian: “Martinica”
- Vietnamese: “Martinique”
- Volapük: “Martinikeän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Martinique”
- Welsh: “Martinîc”
- 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: “Mártíníkì”
- Yoruba: “Matinikuwi”
- Yue Chinese: “馬提尼克”
- Zulu: “i-Martinique”
- “MQ”
- “MTQ”
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