Kourou
Kourou 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 24,800 residents
- Description: commune in Guyane, France
- Also known as: “Bourg de Kourou”, “Kouro”, and “Kourou, French Guiana”
- Postal code: 97310
Kourou
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Cayenne, Guyane, French Guiana, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
5.158° or 5° 9′ 29″ northLongitude of center
-52.6424° or 52° 38′ 33″ westPopulation
24,800Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)IATA airport code
QKRUnited Nations Location Code
GF QKROpenStreetMap ID
node 284974098OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kourou” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kourou”
- Arabic: “كوروا”
- Aragonese: “Kourou”
- Arpitan: “Kourou”
- Asturian: “Kourou”
- Azerbaijani: “Kuru”
- Bambara: “Kourou”
- Basque: “Kourou”
- Bavarian: “Kourou”
- Belarusian: “Куру (Французская Гвіяна)”
- Belarusian: “Куру”
- Bengali: “কুরু (শহর)”
- Bengali: “কুরু”
- Breton: “Kourou”
- Bulgarian: “Куру”
- Cajun French: “Kourou”
- Catalan: “Kourou”
- Cebuano: “Kourou”
- Chechen: “КугӀу”
- Chinese: “库鲁”
- Chinese: “庫魯”
- Corsican: “Kourou”
- Croatian: “Kourou”
- Czech: “Kourou”
- Dagbani: “Kourou”
- Danish: “Kourou”
- Dutch: “Kourou”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوروا”
- Esperanto: “Kourou”
- Estonian: “Kourou”
- Faroese: “Kourou”
- Finnish: “Kourou”
- French: “Kourou”
- French: “Roche la Folle”
- Friulian: “Kourou”
- Galician: “Kourou”
- Georgian: “კურუ”
- German: “Kourou”
- Greek: “Κουρού”
- Greek: “Ρος λα Φολ”
- Guianese Creole French: “Kourou”
- Hebrew: “קורו”
- Hungarian: “Kourou”
- Icelandic: “Kourou”
- Ido: “Kourou”
- Indonesian: “Kourou”
- Interlingua: “Kourou”
- Interlingue: “Kourou”
- Irish: “Kourou”
- Italian: “Kourou”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Kourou”
- Japanese: “クールー”
- Kabyle: “Kourou”
- Kalaallisut: “Kourou”
- Kongo: “Kourou”
- Korean: “쿠루”
- Ladin: “Kourou”
- Latin: “Kourou”
- Latvian: “Kourou”
- Ligurian: “Kourou”
- Limburgan: “Kourou”
- Lithuanian: “Kourou”
- Low German: “Kourou”
- Luxembourgish: “Kourou”
- Mainfränkisch: “Kourou”
- Malagasy: “Kourou”
- Malay: “Kourou”
- Mazanderani: “کورو (فرانسه)”
- Mazanderani: “کورو”
- Minangkabau: “Kourou”
- Narom: “Kourou”
- Neapolitan: “Kourou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kourou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kourou”
- Norwegian: “Kourou”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kourou”
- Papiamento: “Kourou”
- Persian: “کورو (کمون)”
- Persian: “کورو”
- Picard: “Kourou”
- Piemontese: “Kourou”
- Polish: “Kourou”
- Portuguese: “Kourou”
- Prussian: “Kourou”
- Romagnol: “Kourou”
- Romanian: “romna”
- Romansh: “Kourou”
- Russian: “Кантон Куру”
- Russian: “Коммуна в Гайане в округе Кайенна.”
- Russian: “Кур”
- Russian: “Куру”
- Sardinian: “Kourou”
- Scots: “Kourou”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kourou”
- Serbian: “Kourou”
- Serbian: “Куру”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kourou”
- Sicilian: “Kourou”
- Sinhala: “කුරෝ, ප්රංශ ගයනාව”
- Slovak: “Kourou”
- Slovenian: “Kourou”
- Spanish: “Kourou”
- Spanish: “Kuru”
- Spanish: “Kurú”
- Swahili: “Kourou”
- Swedish: “Kourou”
- Swiss German: “Kourou”
- Turkish: “Kourou”
- Ukrainian: “Куру”
- Uzbek: “Kourou”
- Venetian: “Kourou”
- Vietnamese: “Kourou”
- Vlaams: “Kourou”
- Volapük: “Kourou”
- Walloon: “Kourou”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kourou”
- Welsh: “Kourou”
- Wolof: “Kourou”
- Wu Chinese: “库鲁”
- Zulu: “Kourou”
- “Kourou”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kourou”. Photo: DLR German Aerospace Center, CC BY 2.0.