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The beautiful sunny country of French Guiana, South America.
By Mark on March 4, 2009
This is a post about another South American country called French Guiana or (Guyana). It lyes between Brazil to the south and Surinam to the west, with a very wet and tropical enviroment, with an estimated population of 221,500+ taken in 2008. Now this so called country is more like a department of France.
French Guiana, became the poperty of France in 1817, the French had though been around since 1604, then in 1852 this place became a penal colony and it then finally became an overseas French Department in 1946.
The main trading partners are France and United States of America, farming, forestry and fishing are main trades with mineral resources that are unexploited and the industry is very limited to what it can do over there.
This is a satellite image of French Guiana, north-east of South America taken from Google Earth.
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of Cayenne, the prefecture and capital of French Guiana.
French Guiana’s national anthem is the same as the French national anthem, taken from Youtube.
This is a photo taken from panoramio of the the centre of Cayenne.
- Learn about French Guiana on Wikipedia:
- Learn about the Prefecture and capital Cayenne on Wikipedia:
- Find French Guiana on Google Maps:
- Find Cayenne on Google Maps:
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One Response to “The beautiful sunny country of French Guiana, South America.”
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
6:13 am on January 22nd, 2011
I am really happy to be exploring the world, even without leaving home how wonderful this world especially after I visited the capital of French Guiana in Latin America, if I had wings I want to fly high and stop in every country. But unfortunately I do not have it all?