Key facts
- Location
- Caribbean
- Area
- 20.64 km (7.97 sq mi)
- Overseas department
- Guadeloupe
- Commune
- La Désirade (commune)
- Population
- 1,595 (2006)
- Pop density
- 77/km (199/sq mi)
- Time zone
- AST ( UTC-4:00 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Lesser Antilles
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Guadeloupe
- Area
- 21.42
- Elevation
- 276
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Body of water
- Caribbean Sea
- Image
- Pano Désirade.jpg
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- Commons category
- Île de La Désirade
- topic's main category
- Category:La Désirade
- postal code
- 97127
- different from
- La Désirade
- inception
- 1933-00-00
- located in/on physical feature
- Lesser Antilles
- native label
- La Désirade
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
La Désirade ( French pronunciation: [la deziʁad]; Guadeloupean Creole: Dézirad or Déziwad) is an island in the French West Indies, in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean. It forms part of Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Désirade” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations