French Guiana
Guyane
Arrondissement of Cayenne

Cayenne

Cayenne is the largest city in and capital of . Cayenne lies on the Atlantic coast, on marshland surrounded by hills. It is an important seaport in South America.
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  • Type: City with 66,000 residents
  • Description: commune and capital city of French Guiana
  • Postal code: 97300

Cayenne

Latitude of center
4.9372° or 4° 56′ 14″ north
Longitude of center
-52.3259° or 52° 19′ 33″ west
Population
66,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
CAY
United Nations Location Code
GF CAY
Open­Street­Map ID
node 381988528
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3382160
Wiki­data ID
Q44401
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cayenne” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cayenne”
  • Albanian: “Kajene”
  • Arabic: “كايين”
  • Aragonese: “Cayenne”
  • Armenian: “Կայեննա”
  • Arpitan: “Cayene”
  • Asturian: “Cayena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kayenna”
  • Bambara: “Cayenne”
  • Basque: “Cayenne”
  • Bavarian: “Cayenne”
  • Belarusian: “Каена”
  • Bengali: “কাইয়েন”
  • Bosnian: “Cayenne”
  • Breton: “Cayenne”
  • Bulgarian: “Кайен”
  • Cajun French: “Cayenne”
  • Catalan: “Caiena”
  • Catalan: “Cayenne”
  • Cebuano: “Cayenne”
  • Chechen: “Кайенна”
  • Chinese: “Cayenne”
  • Chinese: “卡宴”
  • Chinese: “皆因”
  • Chinese: “開雲”
  • Chuvash: “Кайенна”
  • Corsican: “Caienna”
  • Croatian: “Cayenne”
  • Czech: “Cayenne”
  • Dagbani: “Cayenne”
  • Danish: “Cayenne”
  • Dutch: “Cayenne (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Cayenne”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كايين”
  • Esperanto: “Cayenne, Franca Gviano”
  • Esperanto: “Cayenne”
  • Esperanto: “Kajeno”
  • Estonian: “Cayenne”
  • Faroese: “Cayenne”
  • Finnish: “Cayenne”
  • French: “Cayenne”
  • Friulian: “Cayenne”
  • Galician: “Cayenne”
  • Georgian: “კაიენა”
  • Georgian: “კეიენი”
  • German: “Cayenne”
  • Greek: “Cayenne”
  • Greek: “Καγιέν”
  • Guarani: “Kỹiña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kayenn”
  • Gujarati: “કૈયેને”
  • Haitian: “Kayèn”
  • Hebrew: “קאיין”
  • Hebrew: “קיין”
  • Hindi: “कायेन”
  • Hindi: “केयेन”
  • Hungarian: “Cayenne”
  • Icelandic: “Cayenne”
  • Ido: “Cayenne”
  • Indonesian: “Cayenne”
  • Interlingua: “Cayenne”
  • Interlingue: “Cayenne”
  • Irish: “Cayenne”
  • Italian: “Caienna”
  • Italian: “Cajenna”
  • Italian: “Cayenne”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Cayenne”
  • Japanese: “カイエンヌ”
  • Japanese: “ケインヌ”
  • Javanese: “Cayenne”
  • Kabardian: “Кайеннэ”
  • Kabyle: “Cayenne”
  • Kalaallisut: “Cayenne”
  • Kannada: “ಕಯೆನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кайенна”
  • Kazakh: “Кан”
  • Kirghiz: “Кайенна”
  • Kongo: “Cayenne”
  • Korean: “카옌”
  • Korean: “카이엔”
  • Ladin: “Cayenne”
  • Latin: “Caienna”
  • Latin: “Cayenne”
  • Latvian: “Cayenne”
  • Latvian: “Kajena”
  • Latvian: “Kajenna”
  • Ligurian: “Cayenne”
  • Limburgan: “Cayenne”
  • Lithuanian: “Kajena”
  • Lithuanian: “Kajenas”
  • Lombard: “Cajena”
  • Low German: “Cayenne”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cayenne”
  • Macedonian: “Кајена”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Cayenne”
  • Malagasy: “Cayenne”
  • Malay: “Cayenne”
  • Malayalam: “കയെനി”
  • Marathi: “कायेन”
  • Mazanderani: “کاین”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cayenne”
  • Minangkabau: “Cayenne”
  • Mingrelian: “კაიენა”
  • Mongolian: “Каейнна”
  • Narom: “Cayenne”
  • Neapolitan: “Cajenne”
  • Neapolitan: “Cayenne”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cayenne”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cayenne”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cayenne”
  • Norwegian: “Cayenne”
  • Novial: “Kayen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Caiena”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Caièna”
  • Ossetian: “Кайеннæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਯਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Cayenne”
  • Persian: “کاین”
  • Picard: “Cayenne”
  • Piemontese: “Cajen-a”
  • Piemontese: “Cajen-na”
  • Polish: “Cayenne”
  • Polish: “Kajenna”
  • Portuguese: “Caiena”
  • Portuguese: “Cayenne”
  • Prussian: “Cayenne”
  • Pushto: “کاین”
  • Romagnol: “Cayenne”
  • Romanian: “Cayenne”
  • Romansh: “Cayenne”
  • Russian: “Кайена”
  • Russian: “Кайенна”
  • Sardinian: “Cajenna”
  • Sardinian: “Cayenne”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Cayenne”
  • Scots: “Cayenne”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cayenne”
  • Serbian: “Cayenne”
  • Serbian: “Кајен”
  • Serbian: “Кајена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cayenne”
  • Shona: “Cayenne”
  • Sicilian: “Cayenne”
  • Sinhala: “කේයන්, ප්‍රංශ ගයනාව”
  • Sinhala: “කේයන්”
  • Slovak: “Cayenne”
  • Slovenian: “Cayenne”
  • Somali: “Kayene”
  • Spanish: “Cayena”
  • Spanish: “Cayenne”
  • Swahili: “Cayenne”
  • Swahili: “Kayeni”
  • Swedish: “Cayenne”
  • Swiss German: “Cayenne”
  • Tagalog: “Cayenne”
  • Tajik: “Кайенна”
  • Tamil: “கயேன்”
  • Tatar: “Кайенна”
  • Telugu: “కేయిన్”
  • Thai: “กาแยน”
  • Turkish: “Cayenne”
  • Turkmen: “Kaýen”
  • Udmurt: “Кайенна”
  • Ukrainian: “Каєнна”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайєна”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайєнна”
  • Urdu: “کائین”
  • Uzbek: “Kayenna”
  • Venetian: “Caienna”
  • Venetian: “Cajena”
  • Vietnamese: “Cayenne”
  • Vlaams: “Cayenne”
  • Volapük: “Cayenne”
  • Walloon: “Cayenne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cayenne”
  • Welsh: “Cayenne”
  • Wolof: “Cayenne”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡宴”
  • Yoruba: “Cayenne”
  • Yue Chinese: “開雲”
  • Zulu: “Cayenne”
  • “Cayenne”

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