Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (French pronunciation: ​[ɡwadlup]; Guadeloupean Creole: Gwadloup) is a Caribbean island locatit in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, wi a land aurie o 1,628 square kilometres (629 sq. mi) an a population of 400,000.^[1] It is an owerseas region o Fraunce, consistin o a single owerseas depairtment. Its depairtmental code is "971". As the ither owerseas depairtments, Guadeloupe is an integral pairt o the Republic an aw. Besides Guadeloupe island, the smawer islands o Marie-Galante, La Désirade, an the Îles des Saintes are includit in Guadeloupe.

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Owerseas region an depairtment o Fraunce
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Kintra	Fraunce
Prefectur	Basse-Terre
Departments	1
Govrenment
• Preses o the General Cooncil	Jacques Gillot
Area
• Total	1628 km2 (629 sq mi)
Population  (1 Januar 2008)[1]
• Total	405,500
• Density	250/km2 (650/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-04 (ECT)
ISO 3166 code	GP
GDP (2006)[citation needit]	Rankit {{{GDP_rank}}}
Tot	€7.75 billion (US${{{GDP_US$}}} bn)
NUTS Region	FR9
Website	www.guadeloupe.pref.gouv.fr, www.cr-guadeloupe.fr, www.cg971.fr

As pairt o Fraunce, Guadeloupe is pairt o the European Union an the Eurozone; hence, as for aw Eurozone kintras, its currency is the Euro.^[2] Housomeivver, Guadeloupe is no pairt o the Schengen Aurie. The prefectur an the caipital o Guadeloupe is Basse-Terre. Christopher Columbus namit the island Santa María de Guadalupe in 1493 efter the Virgin Mary, veneratit in the Spaingie toun o Guadalupe, in Extremadura.