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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Grenada
- Time Zone: GMT/UTC -4
- Electricity: 230V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
- Currency: Eastern Caribbean Dollar (EC$)
- Country Dialing Code: 473
Grenada
Location
Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago
Capital
Saint George's
Population
89,502 (July 2005 est.)
Regions
6 parishes and 1 dependency*; Carriacou and Petit Martinique*, Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint George, Saint John, Saint Mark, Saint Patrick
Climate
tropical; tempered by northeast trade winds
Ethnic groups
black 82%, mixed black and European 13%, European and East Indian 5%, and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian
Religions
Roman Catholic 53%, Anglican 13.8%, other Protestant 33.2%
Languages
English (official), French patois
Government type
constitutional monarchy with Westminster-style parliament
Background
One of the smallest independent countries in the western hemisphere, Grenada was seized by a Marxist military council on 19 October 1983. Six days later the island was invaded by US forces and those of six other Caribbean nations, which quickly captured the ringleaders and their hundreds of Cuban advisers. Free elections were reinstituted the following year
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