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The World Factbook. 2008.

Martinique

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Martinique
 
overseas department and administrative region of France (1995 est. pop. 395,000), 425 sq mi (1,101 sq km), in the Windward Islands, West Indies. Fort-de-France is the capital. The department and the island of Martinique are coextensive.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. (Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press.
 
Pronunciation:  mär´´t-nk´, -tn-k´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 1993–2020 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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