Read more country profiles, external - Profiles by BBC Monitoring, external Capital: Basse-Terre Area: 1,628 sq km Population: 384,200 Guadeloupe is administered as a part of the French mainland.

Guadeloupe is a great destination for those looking for adventure while surrounded by scenic backdrops. The chain of Caribbean islands in the Lesser Antilles is a paradise well-suited to hikers ...

According to the prefecture, there are six times more homicides, nine times more attempted murders and 20 times more armed robberies in Guadeloupe than the national average in France. Much of the ...

Today, a new monument called "MmorialACTe" as well as a museum in the capital Pointe-a-Pitre recall the fate of the 300,000 slaves brought from Africa to Guadeloupe by the time slavery was finally ...

Known to its one-time Carib Indian population as "karukera", or "island of beautiful waters", the butterfly-shaped French territory of Guadeloupe is a centre of Caribbean Creole culture.