Cayenne
Cayenne is the largest city in and capital of French Guiana. Cayenne lies on the Atlantic coast, on marshland surrounded by hills. It is an important seaport in South America.- City with about 62,700 residents
- …has the IATA airport code CAY
- Description: commune and capital city of French Guiana
- Postal code: 97300
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Latitude of center
4.9372° or 4° 56′ 14″ north
Longitude of center
-52.3259° or 52° 19′ 33″ west
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GF CAY
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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: “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”
- 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”
- Jèrriais: “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”
- Neapolitan: “Cajenne”
- Neapolitan: “Cayenne”
- Northern Frisian: “Cayenne”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cayenne”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cayenne”
- Norwegian: “Cayenne”
- Novial: “Kayen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Caièna”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cæġen”
- 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”
- Silesian: “Cayenne”
- Sindhi: “ڪئيين”
- 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”
- Tumbuka: “Cayenne”
- 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”
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