Guadeloupe 🇬🇵

Guadeloupe sits in the Caribbean and is listed as a dependency rather than an independent state. The short and official forms of the name are the same. Basse-Terre is the capital.

Around 378,000 people live there, placing it 180th of 250 by population — between Iceland above it and Martinique below. Among the 28 entries in the Caribbean it ranks 8th by area and 8th by population.

By land area it covers 1,628 km², which ranks it 185th of the 250 countries and territories in this dataset — just behind the Comoros and just ahead of the Åland Islands. For scale, it is about two thirds the size of Luxembourg.

Guadeloupe does not hold a United Nations seat of its own. It is administered as a dependency or overseas territory rather than as a sovereign state, which is why it sits outside the 193 member states while still appearing among the 250 entries on this site.

Not holding a UN seat is not the same as having no self-government, and the administrative details make that clear. Guadeloupe has 5 of the five markers of separate administration tracked on this page — its own currency, its own dialling code, its own internet domain, its own iso codes and a designated capital. In day-to-day terms it is run substantially as its own jurisdiction.

• Its own currencyEUR
• Its own dialling code+590
• Its own internet domain.gp
• Its own ISO codesgp / GLP
• A designated capitalBasse-Terre

The coordinates the dataset gives are 16.3° N, 61.6° W, which puts it in the northern hemisphere, roughly 1,809 km from the equator, in what geographers would call tropical latitudes.

Sudan, Chad and Niger sit at almost exactly the same latitude on other parts of the globe.

It shares no land border with anyone. That puts it among the 85 entries of 250 here with no land neighbours, which shapes how it trades and who it deals with.

Guadeloupe has no land border with any country, which changes what "nearby" means. Measured centre to centre in a straight line, the closest other entry on this site is Montserrat, roughly 85 km away. These are approximate distances between representative points, not the shortest crossing between two shorelines, so treat them as a sense of scale rather than a sailing chart.

No land border also means no land crossing: everything and everyone arrives by sea or by air. That single fact drives a lot of what follows on this page, from how goods reach the shops to why Guadeloupe's dialling code and internet domain are worth knowing before you travel.

Spread across 1,628 km², that works out at about 232 people per square kilometre, which makes it densely populated. For comparison, the median entry on this list sits near 90 per square kilometre.

The one official language is French. French is one of the widely shared official languages here, listed by 45 other entries including Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso and Burundi.

The demonym is Guadeloupian, so residents are Guadeloupians.

Inside the Americas it places 30th of 56 by population, and it accounts for under 1% of everyone living in the Caribbean.

Guadeloupe does not have the Euro to itself. It is one of 38 entries on this site that use the currency, whose code is EUR, and the others include listed below. A shared currency usually points at something real — a monetary union, a currency board, a former colonial administration, or a small economy pegging itself to a large neighbour's money — and it means a price quoted in EUR travels further than you might expect.

Language reaches wider still. French is listed for 46 entries here, Guadeloupe among them, so a visitor who speaks it can be understood across a large part of the map. Shared language tends to outlive the empires, trade routes and migrations that spread it, which is why the linguistic map and the political one rarely line up.

Zoom in from the world to Caribbean and Guadeloupe sits 8th of 28 by population and 8th by area. Its immediate company in that ordering is Bahamas just above and Martinique just below, which is a more honest comparison set than a global league table.

Haiti is the largest of the group by population, and every entry in Caribbean has its own page here if you want to work through the whole neighbourhood rather than one country at a time.

• 🇧🇸 Bahamas
• 🇲🇶 Martinique
• 🇭🇹 Haiti

It uses the Euro (€, EUR). That is a shared currency: 37 other entries use it, including Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria and Croatia.

Basse-Terre is the seat of government and the answer most quizzes are looking for.

The top-level domain is .gp. To phone it from abroad you dial +590. In ISO terms it is gp in two letters and GLP in three.

Guadeloupe is not a UN member state. The dataset does not record which state administers it, so this page does not guess. Of the 250 entries here, 57 are territories or observers rather than member states.