Fort-de-France

Fort-de-France is the largest city in and capital of . The center, which is always somewhat crowded, extends to the seaside promenade where multiple bars and restaurants are in a typically French atmosphere.
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Photo: Jean-Louis Lascoux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: City with 90,000 residents
  • Description: French commune; largest and capital city of Martinique
  • Also known as: “Fodfwans”, “Fort de France”, “Fort of France”, “Fort-Royal”, “Foyal”, and “Le Fort-de-France”
  • Historically known as: “Fort Royal”
  • Postal codes: 97200, 97200, 97234, and 97234

Places of Interest

Highlights include Schœlcher library and Hôtel de Ville, Fort-de-France.

Library
Photo: Aristoi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Town hall
Photo: Jean-Louis Lascoux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Fort-de-France, , in the , standing on Rue Victor Sévère. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1979.

Public building
Photo: Concord, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a public building.

Fort-de-France

Latitude
14.6028° or 14° 36′ 10″ north
Longitude
-61.0677° or 61° 4′ 4″ west
Population
90,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
FDF
United Nations Location Code
MQ FDF
Open location code
776WJW3J+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246835820
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3570675
Wiki­data ID
Q81621
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fort-de-France” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fort-de-France”
  • Albanian: “Fort de France”
  • Arabic: “فور دو فرانس”
  • Aragonese: “Fort-de-France”
  • Armenian: “Ֆոր դե Ֆրանս”
  • Armenian: “Ֆոր դը Ֆրանս”
  • Arpitan: “Fôrt-de-France”
  • Asturian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Asturian: “Fuerte Francia”
  • Azerbaijani: “For-de-Frans”
  • Bambara: “Fort-de-France”
  • Basque: “Fort-de-France”
  • Bavarian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Belarusian: “Фор-дэ-Франс”
  • Belarusian: “Форт-дэ-Франс”
  • Bengali: “ফর-দ্য-ফ্রঁস”
  • Bosnian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Breton: “Fort-de-France”
  • Bulgarian: “Фор де Франс”
  • Bulgarian: “Фор дьо Франс”
  • Bulgarian: “Форт дьо Франс”
  • Bulgarian: “Форт-дьо-Франс”
  • Cajun French: “Fort-de-France”
  • Catalan: “Fort-de-France”
  • Cebuano: “Fort-de-France (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Fort-de-France”
  • Chechen: “ФогӀ-де-ФгӀанс”
  • Chinese: “Fort-de-France”
  • Chinese: “法兰西堡”
  • Chinese: “法蘭西堡”
  • Chuvash: “Фор-де-Франс”
  • Cornish: “Fort-de-France”
  • Corsican: “Fort-de-France”
  • Croatian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Czech: “Fort-de-France”
  • Danish: “Fort-de-France”
  • Dutch: “Fort-de-France”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فور دو فرانس”
  • Esperanto: “Fordefranso”
  • Esperanto: “Fort-de-France”
  • Esperanto: “Fuorto-de-Francio”
  • Estonian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Faroese: “Fort-de-France”
  • Finnish: “Fort-de-France”
  • French: “Fort-de-France”
  • French: “Fort-Royal”
  • French: “Foyalais”
  • French: “Morne Calebasse”
  • French: “Fort Royale” (historical)
  • Friulian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Galician: “Fort-de-France”
  • Georgian: “ფორ-დე-ფრანსი”
  • German: “Fort de France”
  • German: “Fort-de-France”
  • Greek: “Fort-de-France”
  • Greek: “Φορ ντε Φρανς”
  • Greek: “Φορ-ντε-Φρανς”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Fòdifrans”
  • Gujarati: “ફોર્ટ-ડે-ફ્રાંસ”
  • Haitian: “Fòd Fwans”
  • Haitian: “Fòdfwans”
  • Hebrew: “פור דה פראנס”
  • Hebrew: “פור-דה-פראנס”
  • Hebrew: “פורט דה פראנס”
  • Hebrew: “פורט דה-פראנס”
  • Hindi: “फोर्ट-डी-फ़्रांस”
  • Hungarian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Icelandic: “Fort-de-France”
  • Ido: “Fort-de-France”
  • Indonesian: “Fort of France”
  • Indonesian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Interlingua: “Fort-de-France”
  • Interlingue: “Fort-de-France”
  • Irish: “Fort-de-France”
  • Italian: “Fodfwans”
  • Italian: “Fort de France”
  • Italian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Fort-de-France”
  • Japanese: “フォール・ド・フランス”
  • Japanese: “フォール＝ド＝フランス”
  • Javanese: “Fort-de-France”
  • Kabyle: “Fort-de-France”
  • Kalaallisut: “Fort-de-France”
  • Kannada: “ಫೋರ್ಟ್ ಡಿ ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Фор-де-Франс”
  • Kazakh: “Форт-Рояль”
  • Kongo: “Fort-de-France”
  • Korean: “포르 드 프랑스”
  • Korean: “포르드프랑스”
  • Ladin: “Fort-de-France”
  • Latin: “Arx Gallica”
  • Latvian: “Fordefransa”
  • Latvian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Latvian: “Fort-Royal”
  • Ligurian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Ligurian: “Forte de Fransa”
  • Limburgan: “Fort-de-France”
  • Lithuanian: “For de Fransas”
  • Lombard: “Fort-de-France”
  • Low German: “Fort-de-France”
  • Luxembourgish: “Fort-de-France”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Macedonian: “Фор де Франс”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Fort-de-France”
  • Malagasy: “Fort-de-France”
  • Malay: “Fort-de-France”
  • Marathi: “फोर्ट-दे-फ्रान्स”
  • Mazanderani: “فور دو فرانس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fort-de-France”
  • Minangkabau: “Fort-de-France”
  • Mingrelian: “ფორ-დე-ფრანსი”
  • Mongolian: “Форт-де-Франс”
  • Narom: “Fort-de-France”
  • Neapolitan: “Fort-de-France”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort-de-France”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fort-de-France”
  • Norwegian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Novial: “Fort-de-France”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fort-de-France”
  • Ossetian: “Фор-де-Франс”
  • Ossetian: “Фор-Руаяль”
  • Papiamento: “Fort-de-France”
  • Persian: “فور دو فرانس”
  • Persian: “فور-دو-فرانس”
  • Picard: “Fort-de-France”
  • Piemontese: “Fort-de-France”
  • Polish: “Fort de France”
  • Polish: “Fort Royal”
  • Polish: “Fort-de-France”
  • Polish: “Fort-Royal”
  • Portuguese: “Fort-de-France”
  • Portuguese: “Forte da França”
  • Portuguese: “Forte de França”
  • Portuguese: “Forte-de-França”
  • Prussian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Romagnol: “Fort-de-France”
  • Romanian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Romansh: “Fort-de-France”
  • Russian: “Фор-де-Франс”
  • Russian: “Форт-де-Франс”
  • Russian: “Форт-Рояль”
  • Sardinian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Scots: “Fort-de-France”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Fort-de-France”
  • Serbian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Serbian: “Фор де Франс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Sicilian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Silesian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Sinhala: “ෆෝර්ට් ඩි ෆ්‍රාන්ස්, මාර්ටිනික්”
  • Sinhala: “ෆෝර්ට් ඩි ෆ්‍රාන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Fort-de-France”
  • Slovenian: “Fort-de-France”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فور-دو-فرانس”
  • Spanish: “Fort de France”
  • Spanish: “Fort-de-France”
  • Spanish: “Fuerte de Francia”
  • Swahili: “Fort-de-France”
  • Swedish: “Fort-de-France”
  • Swiss German: “Fort-de-France”
  • Tagalog: “Fort-de-France”
  • Tajik: “Фор-де-Франс”
  • Tamil: “ஃபோர்ட்-டி-ஃப்ரான்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “பிரான்சுக் கோட்டை”
  • Tatar: “Фор-де-Франс”
  • Telugu: “ఫోర్ట్ డి ఫ్రాన్స్”
  • Thai: “Fort-de-France”
  • Thai: “ฟอร์-เดอ-ฟรองซ์”
  • Thai: “ฟอร์-เดอ-ฟร็องส์”
  • Turkish: “Fort-de-France”
  • Turkmen: “Fort de Frans”
  • Ukrainian: “Фор-де-Франс”
  • Urdu: “فورٹ ڈی فرانس”
  • Uzbek: “Fort de Frans”
  • Uzbek: “Fort-de-France”
  • Venetian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Vietnamese: “Fort-de-France”
  • Vlaams: “Fort-de-France”
  • Volapük: “Fort-de-France”
  • Walloon: “Fort-de-France”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fort-de-France”
  • Welsh: “Fort-de-France”
  • Western Frisian: “Fort-de-France”
  • Western Panjabi: “فورٹ ڈی فرانس”
  • Wolof: “Fort-de-France”
  • Wu Chinese: “法兰西堡”
  • Yoruba: “Fort-de-France”
  • Yue Chinese: “法蘭西堡”
  • Zulu: “Fort-de-France”
  • “Fort-de-France”

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