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French island in the West Indies (Lesser
Antilles) area 1,079 sq km/417 sq mi capital
Fort-de-France features several active
volcanoes; Napoleon's empress Josephine was
born in Martinique, and her childhood home is
a museum products sugar, cocoa, rum, bananas,
pineapples population (1984) 327,000 history
Martinique was reached by Spanish navigators
in 1493, and became a French colony in 1635;
since 1972 it has been a French overseas
region.