Railways: total: NA km; privately-owned, narrow-gauge plantation lines
Highways: total: 2,082 km paved: 1,742 km unpaved: 340 km (1985 est.) note: in 1996 there were a total of 3,200 km of roads It has been suggested that Highway Transportation System be merged into this article or section. ...
Guadeloupe is an archipelago An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands.
Guadeloupe was populated from 300 BC by the Arawak Amerindians, who fished and developed agriculture on the island.
One indication of Guadeloupe's prosperity at this time is that in the Treaty of Paris (1763), France abandoned its territorial claims in Canada in return for British recognition of French control of Guadeloupe.
Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean, is an archipelago with a total area of 1,704 km² located in the Eastern Caribbean.
Administratively speaking, Guadeloupe is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France.
Guadeloupe comprises five islands: Guadeloupe proper (Basse-Terre), Grande-Terre (separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called salt river) with the adjacent islands of La Désirade, Îles des Saintes and Marie Galante.
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