Pointe-à-Pitre 1st Canton is a former
canton
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in the
Arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre
The arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre is an arrondissement of France in the Guadeloupe department in the Guadeloupe region. It has 14 communes. Its population is 199,303 (2021), and its area is .
Composition
The communes of the arrondissement o ...
on the island of
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galant ...
. It had 4,414 inhabitants (2012).
[Populations légales 2012: 971 Guadeloupe]
INSEE It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It comprised part of the ''commune'' of
Pointe-à-Pitre
Pointe-à-Pitre (; , , or simply , ) is the second most populous commune of Guadeloupe (after Les Abymes). Guadeloupe is an overseas region and Overseas department, department of France located in the Lesser Antilles, of which it is a ''Subprefectu ...
,
[ which joined the new canton of Pointe-à-Pitre in 2015.Décret n° 2014-235 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Guadeloupe]
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See also
*Cantons of Guadeloupe
The following is a list of the 21 cantons of the Guadeloupe department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March of 2015:
* Les Abymes-1
* Les Abymes-2
* Les Abymes-3
* Baie-Mahault-1
* Baie-Ma ...
*Communes of Guadeloupe
The following is a list of the 32 communes of the Guadeloupe overseas department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):
*Arrondissements of Guadeloupe
The 2 arrondissements of the Guadeloupe department are:
# Arrondissement of Basse-Terre, (prefecture of the Guadeloupe department: Basse-Terre) with 18 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 185,012 in 2021.
# Arrondissement of Po ...
References
Former cantons of Guadeloupe
2015 disestablishments in France
States and territories disestablished in 2015
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