Martinique (French pronunciation: [maʁtiˈnik]), also referred to as Matnik or Matinik in Martinican Creole) is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of 1,128 square kilometres (436 sq mi) and a population of 376,480 inhabitants as of January 2016.Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region (région d’outre …