French Guiana

French Guiana (; , offeecially juist ; Guianese Creole: Lagwiyann or Gwiyann fransé) is an owerseas region o Fraunce, consistin o a single owerseas depairtment locatit on the northren Atlantic coast o Sooth Americae. It haes borders wi twa naitions: Brazil tae the east an sooth, an Suriname tae the wast. Its  hae a vera law population densitie o less nor , wi amaist hauf o its 229,000 fowk in 2009 livin in the urban aurie o Cayenne, its caipital ceety.

The addition o the adjective "French" in Inglis comes frae colonial times when five sic colonies existit (The Guianas), namely frae wast tae east: Spaingie Guiana (nou Guayana Region in Venezuela), Breetish Guiana (nou Guyana), Dutch Guiana (nou Suriname), French Guiana, an Portuguese Guiana (nou Amapá, a state in far northren Brazil). French Guiana an the twa muckler kintras tae the north an wast, Guyana an Suriname, are still aften collectively referred tae as the Guianas an comprise ane lairge shield landmass.

A muckle pairt o the depairtment's economy derives frae the presence o the Guiana Space Centre, nou the European Space Agency's primary launch steid near the equator.

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Category:Kintras in the Caribbean
Category:Kintras borderin the Atlantic Ocean
Guiana, French
Category:French-speakin kintras
Category:Ootermaist regions o the European Union
Category:Owerseas depairtments o Fraunce
Category:French colonization o the Americas
Category:Regions o Fraunce
Category:Kintras in Sooth Americae
Category:States an territories established in 1946