South America

French Guiana

French Guiana is an overseas French department and region in the region of , bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between and .
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is the largest city in and capital of French Guiana. lies on the Atlantic coast, on marshland surrounded by hills. It is an important seaport in South America.

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is a town in French Guiana. Together with the Îles de salut outside the coast it used to be part of a penal colony for the worst criminals in France, but in 1946 the prisons were closed.

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is a city in French Guiana. It is also the name of the commune. It is the second most populous city of French Guiana, with 50,250 people.

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is a commune of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of located in . It lies on the Oyapock River, opposite the Brazilian town of .

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is a national park in French Guiana and France's largest park. With an area of 33,900 km2, the takes up most of the land area of French Guiana, with that number being a good 41% of the French department.
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French Guiana

Latitude of center
3.91° or 3° 54′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
-53.17° or 53° 10′ 12″ west
Population
238,000
Area
91,000 km² (35,135 miles²)
Elevation
195 metres (640 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.gf
Internet domain
594
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3381670
Wiki­data ID
Q3769
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“French Guiana” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Guyana Peurancih”
  • Afrikaans: “Frans-Guyana”
  • Akan: “Frɛnkye Gayana”
  • Albanian: “Guajana Franceze”
  • Amharic: “gf”
  • Amharic: “የፈረንሳይ ጉዊአና”
  • Amharic: “ጊያን”
  • Arabic: “gf”
  • Arabic: “غويانا الفرنسية”
  • Arabic: “غيانا”
  • Aragonese: “Guayana Francesa”
  • Armenian: “Ֆրանսիական Գվիանա”
  • Arpitan: “Guiyana”
  • Arpitan: “Guyana francêsa”
  • Assamese: “ফ্ৰান্স গয়ানা”
  • Asturian: “Guyana Francesa”
  • Awadhi: “फ़्रान्सीसी गुयाना”
  • Aymara: “Guyane”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fransa Qvianası”
  • Bambara: “Faransi ka gwiyani”
  • Basque: “Guyana Frantsesa”
  • Belarusian: “Французская Гвіяна”
  • Belarusian: “Француская Гвіяна”
  • Bengali: “গুইয়ান”
  • Bengali: “ফরাসি গায়ানা”
  • Bengali: “ফরাসী গায়ানা”
  • Bhojpuri: “फ्रेंच गयाना”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফ্যাঞ্চ গায়ানা”
  • Bosnian: “Francuska Gvajana”
  • Breton: “Gwiana c’hall”
  • Breton: “Gwiana cʼhall”
  • Bulgarian: “Френска Гвиана”
  • Burmese: “ပြင်သစ် ဂီယာနာ”
  • Burmese: “ပြင်သစ်ပိုင် ဂီယာနာ”
  • Catalan: “Guaiana Francesa”
  • Catalan: “Guaiana”
  • Cebuano: “Guyane”
  • Central Bikol: “Guyanang Pranses”
  • Central Kurdish: “گویانای فەڕەنسی”
  • Chechen: “Французийн Гвиана”
  • Chinese: “Hoat-kok léng Guiana”
  • Chinese: “法属圭亚那 / 法屬圭亞那”
  • Chinese: “法属圭亚那”
  • Chinese: “法屬圭亞那”
  • Cornish: “Gwayana Frynkek”
  • Corsican: “Guiana francese”
  • Corsican: “Guyana francese”
  • Croatian: “Francuska Gijana”
  • Croatian: “Francuska Gvajana”
  • Czech: “Francouzská Guyana”
  • Danish: “Fransk Guyana”
  • Dhivehi: “ފަރަންސޭސި ގީނާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Guyanay Fransa”
  • Dutch: “Frans-Guyana”
  • Dutch: “GF”
  • Dutch: “GUF”
  • Dzongkha: “གུའི་ཡ་ན་ ཕྲནས྄་མངའ་ཁོངས”
  • Eastern Mari: “Француз Гвиана”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيانا الفرنساويه”
  • Esperanto: “Franca Gujano”
  • Esperanto: “Franca Gviano”
  • Estonian: “Prantsuse Guajaana”
  • Ewe: “Frentsi Gayana nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Guayana Francesa”
  • Faroese: “Franska Gujana”
  • Fiji Hindi: “French Guiana”
  • Finnish: “Ranskan Guayana”
  • French: “FR-973”
  • French: “Guyane française”
  • French: “Guyane Française”
  • French: “Guyane”
  • Fulah: “Giyaan Farayse”
  • Gagauz: “Franțuz Gayanası”
  • Galician: “Güiana Francesa”
  • Ganda: “Guyana enfalansa”
  • Georgian: “საფრანგეთის გვიანა”
  • German: “Französisch-Guayana”
  • German: “GF”
  • German: “Guyane française”
  • Gothic: “𐌵𐌰𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌰 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌽𐍃𐌺”
  • Greek: “Γαλλική Γουιάνα”
  • Guarani: “Guajána Frãsiapegua”
  • Guarani: “Gujána Hyãsiapegua”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Gwiyann fransé”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Gwiyann”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lagwiyann”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રેંચ ગયાના”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રેન્ચ ગુયાના”
  • Haitian: “Giyàn franse”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fap-koet liâng Guiana”
  • Hausa: “Gini Ta Faransa”
  • Hawaiian: “Kiana Palani”
  • Hebrew: “גיאנה הצרפתית”
  • Hindi: “फ़्रान्सीसी गुयाना”
  • Hindi: “फ़्रांसीसी गिआना”
  • Hindi: “फ्रांसीसी गुयाना”
  • Hindi: “फ्रेंच गुयाना”
  • Hindi: “फ़्रेंच गुयाना”
  • Hungarian: “Francia Guyana”
  • Hungarian: “Francia-Guayana”
  • Hungarian: “Guyane française”
  • Hungarian: “Guyane”
  • Icelandic: “Franska Gvæjana”
  • Ido: “Franca Guyana”
  • Igbo: “Frenchi Guiana”
  • Inari Sami: “Ranska Guayana”
  • Indonesian: “Guyana Prancis”
  • Interlingua: “Guyana francese”
  • Interlingue: “Francesi Guyana”
  • Irish: “Guáin na Fraince”
  • Italian: “Guiana francese”
  • Italian: “Guyana francese”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “French Gayana”
  • Japanese: “フランス領ギアナ”
  • Japanese: “仏領ギアナ”
  • Javanese: “Guyana Prancis”
  • Kabardian: “Фрэндж Гуианэ”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರೆಂಚ್ ಗಯಾನ”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರೆಂಚ್ ಗಯಾನಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Frantsuz Gvianası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gviana”
  • Kashmiri: “فرانسِسی گِانا”
  • Kazakh: “Француз Гвианасы”
  • Khmer: “ហ្គីអាណា បារាំង”
  • Kikuyu: “French Guyana”
  • Kikuyu: “Gwiyana ya Ufaransa”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Guyane Nyamfaransa”
  • Kirghiz: “Гвиана”
  • Kirghiz: “Француздук Гвиана”
  • Kongo: “Guyane”
  • Korean: “프랑스령 기아나 주”
  • Korean: “프랑스령 기아나”
  • Kurdish: “Guyanaya Fransî”
  • Kurdish: “Guyaneya Fransî”
  • Lao: “ກຸຍຢານຝຣັ່ງ”
  • Lao: “ເຟຣນຊ໌ ກຸຍອານາ”
  • Latgalian: “Praņcīšu Gviāna”
  • Latin: “Guiana Francica”
  • Latvian: “Francijas Gviāna”
  • Latvian: “Gviāna”
  • Lezghian: “Франциядин Гвиана”
  • Ligurian: “Guayana Françèise”
  • Ligurian: “Guyana Françèize”
  • Limburgan: “Frans Guyana”
  • Lingala: “Giyanɛ ya Falánsɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Guian Franses”
  • Lithuanian: “gf”
  • Lithuanian: “Prancūzijos Gviana”
  • Lombard: “Gujana Francesa”
  • Low German: “Franzöösch-Guayana”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Francojska Guyana”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Giyane wa Nfalanse”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guayane”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guyane”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Guayana gallicã”
  • Macedonian: “Француска Гвајана”
  • Malagasy: “Goiana Frantsay”
  • Malagasy: “Guyana frantsay”
  • Malagasy: “Guyane”
  • Malay: “Guiana Perancis”
  • Malayalam: “ഫ്രഞ്ച് ഗയാന”
  • Maltese: “Gujana Franċiża”
  • Maltese: “Guyana Franċiża”
  • Maltese: “il-Guyana Franċiża”
  • Maori: “Kaiana Wīwī”
  • Maori: “Kiana o Wīwī”
  • Marathi: “फ्रेंच गयाना”
  • Mazanderani: “فرانسه گویان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Huák-guók liāng Guiana”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guyane”
  • Minangkabau: “Guyana Parancih”
  • Mingrelian: “საფრანგეთიშ გვიანა”
  • Mongolian: “Францын Гвиана”
  • Neapolitan: “Guyana Frangesa”
  • Nepali: “फ्रान्सेली गायना”
  • Nepali: “फ्रान्सेली गुयना”
  • Nepali: “फ्रेन्च गुयना”
  • North Ndebele: “Gwiyana ye Furansi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fransöösk Guayaana”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fransöösk-Guayana”
  • Northern Sami: “Frankriikka Guayana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cayenne”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fransk Guyana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guyane française”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fransk Guyana”
  • Norwegian: “Fransk Guyana”
  • Novial: “Fransi Giyana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guaiana francesa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guaiana Francesa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guaiana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guiana francesa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Frencisc Guiana”
  • Oriya: “ଫ୍ରେଞ୍ଚ ଗୁଇନା”
  • Oromo: “Fireenchi Giyaanaa”
  • Ossetian: “Францы Гвианæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਰਾਂਸੀਸੀ ਗੁਈਆਨਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਫਰੈਂਚ ਗੁਇਆਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Guiana Franses”
  • Papiamento: “Guyana Franses”
  • Persian: “گویان فرانسه”
  • Picard: “Guiyane”
  • Picard: “Guyane”
  • Piemontese: “Gujan-a Fransèisa”
  • Polish: “Gujana Francuska”
  • Portuguese: “gf”
  • Portuguese: “GF”
  • Portuguese: “Guiana Francesa”
  • Portuguese: “Guiana, França”
  • Portuguese: “Guiana”
  • Portuguese: “Guyane française”
  • Portuguese: “Guyane”
  • Pushto: “فرانسوي ګانا”
  • Pushto: “فرانسوي ګيانا”
  • Quechua: “Guayana Francesa”
  • Quechua: “Ransis Wayana”
  • Romanian: “Guyana Franceză”
  • Romansh: “Guyana Franzosa”
  • Rundi: “Gwayana y’Abafaransa”
  • Russian: “Гвиана (департамент Франции)”
  • Russian: “Гвиана”
  • Russian: “Французская Гвиана”
  • Samoan: “Farani Guiana”
  • Samogitian: “Prancūzėjės Gviana”
  • Sango: “Güyâni tî farânzi”
  • Sardinian: “Gujana Frantzesa”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Frantsöösk-Guayana”
  • Scots: “French Guiana”
  • Scots: “Guiana, Fraunce”
  • Scots: “Guiana”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guiana Fhrangach”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guidheàna na Frainge”
  • Serbian: “Француска Гвајана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Francuska Gijana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Francuska Gvajana”
  • Shan: “ၵုၺ်ႇယႃႇၼႃႇ ၶွင် ၾရၢင်ႇသဵတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “French Guiana”
  • Sicilian: “Guyana francisi”
  • Sindhi: “فرانسيسي گيانا”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රංශ ගයනාව”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍ශ ගයනා”
  • Slovak: “Francúzska Guyana”
  • Slovenian: “Francoska Gvajana”
  • Somali: “Faransiis Gini”
  • Somali: “Faransiis Guyana”
  • South Azerbaijani: “gf”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قویان فرانسه”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Guayana”
  • Spanish: “Guayana Francesa”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Frans-Kayanakondre”
  • Sundanese: “Guyana Perancis”
  • Swahili: “Guiana ya Ufaransa”
  • Swahili: “Guyana ya Kifaransa”
  • Swahili: “Guyani ya Kifaransa”
  • Swedish: “Franska Guiana”
  • Swedish: “Franska Guyana”
  • Swedish: “Guyane française”
  • Swedish: “Guyane”
  • Swiss German: “Französisch-Guayana”
  • Tagalog: “French Guiana”
  • Tajik: “Гвианаи Фаронса”
  • Tamil: “பிரெஞ்சு கயானா”
  • Tatar: “Франса Гвиянәсе”
  • Tatar: “Франсуз Гвианасы”
  • Tatar: “Француз Гвианасы”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రెంచ్ గయానా”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రెంచ్ గియానా”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రెంచ్ ఘుఈన”
  • Thai: “เฟรนช์เกียนา”
  • Tigrinya: “ናይ ፈረንሳይ ጉይና”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kuiana fakafalanisē”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Französisch-Guayana”
  • Turkish: “Fransız Guyanası”
  • Turkish: “French Guiana”
  • Turkmen: “Fransuz Gwianasy”
  • Udmurt: “Гвиана (Франция)”
  • Udmurt: “Гвиана”
  • Uighur: “فرانسىيىگە قاراشلىق گۋىئانا”
  • Uighur: “فىرانسىيەگە قاراشلىق گىۋىيانا”
  • Ukrainian: “GF”
  • Ukrainian: “Гвіана”
  • Ukrainian: “Французька Гвіана”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Francoska Guayana”
  • Urdu: “فرانسیسی گیانا”
  • Urdu: “فرینچ گیانا”
  • Uzbek: “Fransiya Gvianasi”
  • Uzbek: “Fransuz Gvianasi”
  • Venetian: “Guyana franséxe”
  • Venetian: “Guyana Franseza”
  • Vietnamese: “Guiana thuộc Pháp”
  • Vietnamese: “Guyane thuộc Pháp”
  • Vlaams: “Frans-Guyana”
  • Volapük: “Gvayän Fransänik”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guyane”
  • Welsh: “Gaiana”
  • Welsh: “Guyane Ffrengig”
  • Welsh: “Guyane”
  • Western Armenian: “Ֆրանսական Կիանա”
  • Western Frisian: “Frans-Guyana”
  • Western Frisian: “Frânsk Guyana”
  • Western Frisian: “Frânsk-Guyana”
  • Western Frisian: “Guyana”
  • Western Mari: “Франци Гвиана”
  • Western Panjabi: “فرانسیسی گیانا”
  • Wolof: “Guyaan Farañse”
  • Wolof: “Guyaana gu Faraas”
  • Wu Chinese: “法属圭亚那”
  • Wu Chinese: “法属渠亚娜”
  • Yakut: “Француз Гуианата”
  • Yiddish: “פראנצויזישע גויאנע”
  • Yiddish: “פֿראַנצויזישע גויאַנע”
  • Yiddish: “פראנצויזישע גיאנע”
  • Yoruba: “Firenṣi Guana”
  • Yoruba: “Gùyánà Fránsì”
  • Yue Chinese: “法屬圭亞那”
  • Zeeuws: “Frans Huyana”
  • Zulu: “i-French Guiana”
  • “GF”
  • “GUF”
  • “Guyana Perancis”
  • “ma Kijan”
  • “Prancūzėjės Gviana”
  • “फ्रेंच गयाना”

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