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Travel Home > Directory > Destinations > North America > Caribbean > Martinique
Martinique. Pop - 401,000. Area - 1,128 km². Capital - Fort-de-France. Largest City – Fort-de-France. Currency – Euro. Language – French and Antillean Creole. Main Religions – Roman Catholic. Time Zone – GMT - 4 hours. Main Airport – Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport FDF. Climate – tropical with 2 seasons, dry summer and rainy winter. Voltage guide 220V. Dialing code 596. Martinique is located in the eastern Caribbean and is an overseas department of France. As it is part of France, Martinique also uses the Euro as its official currency. The north of the island is hilly with luxuriant forests. A notable mountain in this area is Mount Pelée, which is still registered as an active volcano. The volcanic ash from this region has made striking grey and black sand beaches (in particular between Anse Ceron and Anse des Gallets), contrasting markedly from the white sands of Les Salines in the south of the island. The south is an easier area to navigate, and tends to attract more tourists who usually gravitate to the beaches from Pointe de Bout, through Diamant (which features right off the coast the beautiful Roche de Diamant), St. Luce, the town of St. Anne, and all the way down to Les Salines. Another unique feature of Martinique is the cuisine which is a blend of French and Creole cooking. A speciality is Colombo, a unique curry of chicken(curry chicken), meat or fish with vegetables, spiced with a distinctive masala of Bengali or Tamil origins, and often containing wine, coconut milk, and rum.
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Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km². It is an overseas department of France. As with the other overseas departments, Martinique is also one of the twenty-six regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic. As part of France, Martinique is part of the European Union, and its currency is the euro. Its official language is French, although almost all of its inhabitants also speak Antillean Creole.
Martinique is a Caribbean island that is an overseas department of France in the Caribbean Sea, to the north of Trinidad and Tobago. The island is dominated by Mount Pelee, which on 8 May 1902 erupted and completely destroyed the city of Saint Pierre, killing 30,000 inhabitants. In the South of the island, there are many beautiful beaches with a lot of tourists. In the North, the rain forests and the black sand beaches are worth seeing. The interior of the island is mountainous.
Discover the island through a collection of photos joined together with the passing years and classified by topics.
Mount Pelée (French: Montagne Pelée, "Bald Mountain") is an active volcano on the northern tip of the French overseas department of Martinique in the Caribbean. It is among the deadliest stratovolcano on Earth, its volcanic cone composed of layers of volcanic ash and hardened lava.
Fort-de-France is the capital of France's Caribbean département d'outre-mer of Martinique. With a population of 134,727 inhabitants (1999 census) in the urban area, 94,049 of whom live in the city (commune) of Fort-de-France proper, it is also one of the major cities in the Caribbean. Exports include sugar, rum, tinned fruit, and cacao.
