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Cities of Guadeloupe |
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- Surface area : 1 703 km2 (of which Basse-Terre accounts
for 848 km2 and Grande-Terre 590 km2)
- Status : Overseas Department (DOM) since the 19th March
1946
- Prefectorial Offices : Basse-Terre (14 000 inhab.)
- Population : 422 496 inhabitants after the census of 1999
(387.000 en 1990) ; estimated 450 000 today (non official data).
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 | Spectacles
Gérard La Viny (1933)
Musician and singer with two great moments of success: Sans chemise, sans
pantalon et Ba moin an ti bo. Father of Eddy La Viny.
Pascal Légitimus (Paris 1959)
Theatre and[...] |
| Geography
The two distinct islands of Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre form
the shape of a butterfly spreading its wings into the Caribbean Sea and the
Atlantic Ocean. The eastern wing, Grande-Terre is the economic centre[...] |