Martinique

Situated in the heart of the Caribbean archipelago, Martinique belongs to the "Windward Islands" of the Lesser Antilles. Its coasts are lapped in the east by the Atlantic Ocean and in the west by the Caribbean Sea. Martinique is 4,350 miles from Paris, 1,950 miles
from New York, and 275 miles from the coast of South America, its nearest neighbors to the north are Dominica (16 miles away) and Guadeloupe (75 miles), and its nearest neighbor to the south is Saint Lucia (23 miles). Martinique is equidistant between Venezuela and Haiti/Domincan Republic, at 497 miles from both.

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