Population: 400,124
Motto: Liberty, Equality, and brotherhood.
Guadeloupe is a French overseas territory so the official language is French and the currency is the Euro.
Guadeloupe has two flags. The official flag is the tricolor French national flag with the tri-color red, white and blue. A locally used unofficial flag, based on the coat of arms of Guadeloupe’s capital Basse-Terre, has a red field with a 30-rayed yellow sun, a green sugarcane and a blue stripe with three yellow fleurs-de-lis.
Guadeloupe is home to lots of hot springs! The dormant volcano that’s located on the southern island of Basse-Terre is the cause of thermal effects from bubbling thermal water pools to healing mud.[above]
The official national anthem is La Marseillaise (Being an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe uses La Marseillaise as its national anthem):
Let’s go children of the fatherland,The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny’s
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your battalions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!This horde of slaves, traitors, plotting kings,
What do they want?
For whom these vile shackles,
These long-prepared irons? (repeat)
Frenchmen, for us, oh! what an insult!
What emotions that must excite!
It is us that they dare to consider
Returning to ancient slavery!What! These foreign troops
Would make laws in our home!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would bring down our proud warriors! (repeat)
Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brows would bend beneath the yoke!
Vile despots would become
The masters of our fate!Tremble, tyrants! and you, traitors,
The disgrace of all groups,
Tremble! Your parricidal plans
Will finally pay the price! (repeat)
Everyone is a soldier to fight you,
If they fall, our young heros,
France will make more,
Ready to battle you!Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Bear or hold back your blows!
Spare these sad victims,
Regretfully arming against us. (repeat)
But not these bloodthirsty despots,
But not these accomplices of Bouillé,
All of these animals who, without pity,
Tear their mother’s breast to pieces!Sacred love of France,
Lead, support our avenging arms!
Liberty, beloved Liberty,
Fight with your defenders! (repeat)
Under our flags, let victory
Hasten to your manly tones!
May your dying enemies
See your triumph and our glory!We will enter the pit
Listen to the national anthem.
When our elders are no longer there;
There, we will find their dust
And the traces of their virtues. (repeat)
Much less eager to outlive them
Than to share their casket,
We will have the sublime pride
Of avenging them or following them!