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Commune of Les Abymes |
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| Location of the commune (in red) within Guadeloupe | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Guadeloupe |
| Department | Guadeloupe |
| Arrondissement | Pointe-à-Pitre |
| Canton | 5 cantons (Les Abymes #1 thru #5) |
| Intercommunality | none as of 2007 |
| Mayor | Daniel Marsin |
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| Elevation | 0 m–m |
| Land area¹ | 81. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Guadeloupe is an island group or Archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at, with a land area of 1628 square kilometres (629 sq In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Guadeloupe is an island group or Archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at, with a land area of 1628 square kilometres (629 sq The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre is an arrondissement of France located in the Guadeloupe département, in the Guadeloupe The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 25 km² |
| Population² (1999 census) |
63,054 |
| - Density | 776/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 97101/ 97139 and 97142 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E | |
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Les Abymes is the most populated commune in the French overseas région and département of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Overseas region (Région d'outre-mer is a recent designation given to the overseas departments which have similar powers to those of the regions of Metropolitan Overseas department (départements d’outre-mer or DOM) is a designation under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic that was given to the Guadeloupe is an island group or Archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at, with a land area of 1628 square kilometres (629 sq The Lesser Antilles, also known as the Caribbees, are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas and Greater Antilles form the It is located on the west side of the island of Grande-Terre, and is part of the metropolitan area of Pointe-à-Pitre, the largest conurbation in Guadeloupe. Grande Terre is also the name of the main island of New Caledonia, and the name of the largest of the Kerguelen Islands. Pointe-à-Pitre ( French: Pointe-à-Pitre, pwɛ̃tapitʁ Creole: Lapwent, pronounced) is the largest city of Guadeloupe, an A conurbation is an Urban area or Agglomeration comprising a number of Cities, large Towns and larger urban areas that through Population In the 1999 census, Les Abymes had a population of 63,054. INSEE ( French: I nstitut N ational de la S tatistique et des É tudes É conomiques; inse (not) in French is the The commune has a land area of 81. 25 km² (31. 371 sq mi).
Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport is located in Les Abymes. Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport or Pointe-à-Pitre - Le Raizet Airport, also known as Aéroport Guadeloupe Pôle Caraïbes in French
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