Show isle of martinique martinique west indies possession of france is an island square miles in area with a quarter of a million inhabitants or an average of about persons to the square mile much of the interior is devoid of human life because it cannot be cultivated while more than one fifth of the total number of inhabitants live liva in and around the capital and port fort de france martinique is situated between puerto rico and trinidad in the curving island chain that separates the atlantic ocean from the caribbean just 1260 miles from the panama canal |