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Guadeloupe has been a French possession since 1635 and a department of France since 1946. In July 2000, the population was estimated at 426,493 people. The economy depends heavily on tourism but requires substantial aid from France. In 1998, the unemployment rate was 27.8 percent, and GDP per capita was estimated at $9,000 in 1996. Although French is the official language, the majority of the population speaks Creole, an important element in the cultural unity of Guadeloupe's society.
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Guadeloupe is an Overseas Department of France and as such is an integral part of the French Republic. Head of State: President Jacques Chirac since 1995, represented locally by Prefect Jean Fedini since 1996. Head of Government: Marcellin Lubeth, President of the General Council since 1998.
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Guadeloupe is an archipelago in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a total area of 1,704 km². It is an overseas [D]épartement (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France. Like the other DOMs, Guadeloupe is ... a région of France, and an integral part of the Republic.
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Guadeloupe is an archipelago in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a total area of 1,702 km². It is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France. Like the other DOMs, Guadeloupe is ... one of the 26 régions (région d'outre-mer) of France, and an integral part of the Republic.
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PARIS, France (AFP): Willie Brigitte, a 38-year-old Muslim convert from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, accused of plotting to attack a Sydney nuclear reactor and strategic targets across Australia, insisted he had no links to terrorism at his trial Wednesday. read more..
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After successful settlement on the island of St Christophe (St Kitts), the French American Islands Company delegated Charles Lienard and Jean Duplessis, Lord of Ossonville to colonize one or any of the region’s islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique or Dominica. Due to Martinique’s inhospitable nature, the duo resolved to settle in Guadeloupe. The French took possession of the island in 1635 and wiped out many of the Carib amerindians. It was annexed to the kingdom of France in 1674. Over the next century, the island was seized several times by the British. One indication of Guadeloupe's prosperity at this time is that in the Treaty of Paris (1763), France, defeated in war, accepted to abandon its territorial claims in Canada in return for British recognition of French control of Guadeloupe.
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