Pointe-à-Pitre 3rd 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 7,109 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
The canton of Pointe-à-Pitre is an administrative division of Guadeloupe, an overseas department and region of France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Pointe-à-Pitre.
It c ...
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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