Grenada is an island nation in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southerly end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada contains the island of Grenada itself, 2 smaller sized islands, Carriacou as well as Petite Martinique, and also numerous small islands which lie to the north of the primary island and belong of the Grenadines.

It is located northwest of Trinidad as well as Tobago, northeast of Venezuela and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Its dimension is 348.5 square kilometres (134.6 sq mi), as well as it had actually an approximated population of 112,523 in July 2020. Its funding is St. George’s. Grenada is also called the “Island of Flavor” as a result of its manufacturing of nutmeg and mace plants.

Works with: 12 ° 07 ′ N 61 ° 40 ′ WBefore the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, Grenada was populated by the native peoples from South America. Christopher Columbus spotted Grenada in 1498 throughout his third trip to the Americas. Following several unsuccessful attempts by Europeans to colonise the island due to resistance from resident Island Caribs, French settlement as well as colonisation began in 1649 and also continued for the following century.

On 10 February 1763, Grenada was ceded to the British under the Treaty of Paris. British rule continued until 1974 (besides a brief French requisition between 1779 and also 1783). Nonetheless, on 3 March 1967, it was granted full autonomy over its inner affairs as an Associated State, and also from 1958 to 1962 Grenada became part of the Federation of the West Indies, a brief federation of British West Indian swarms.

Independence was approved on 7 February 1974 under the management of Eric Gairy, that came to be the initial head of state of Grenada of the sovereign state. The new country became a member of the Republic, with Queen Elizabeth as president. In March 1979, the Marxist– Leninist New Jewel Motion overthrew Gairy’s federal government in a bloodless coup d’état and also established individuals’s Revolutionary Government (PRG), headed by Maurice Diocesan as head of state.

Bishop was later detained as well as performed by participants of individuals’s Revolutionary Army, triggering a U.S.-led invasion in October 1983. Since then, the island has returned to a legislative rep freedom as well as has stayed politically secure.