French West Indies

French West Indies

The term French West Indies ("Antilles françaises") refers to the four territories presently under French sovereignty in the Caribbean: the two overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique, plus the two overseas collectivities of Saint Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. The Guadeloupe department includes both the island of Guadeloupe proper and the adjacent islands of Les Saintes, Marie-Galante and La Désirade.

In addition, some of the islands of the present and former British West Indies were once ruled by France. On some of them, a French-based creole language is spoken.

Former French West Indian islands:

*Hispaniola (the former French colony, Saint-Domingue, was on the western third of the island -- now the country of Haiti)
*Dominica
*Grenada
*The Grenadines
*Saint Croix
*Saint Kitts
*Saint Lucia
*Saint Vincent
*Tobago

ee also

*French Caribbean


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