french guiana (fra) Capital: cayenne Pos.: Surface: 83.534 Kmq Population 2020: 299.000 Pop. density: 3,58 in./Kmq Pop. growth 12ys:  +34,68 % GDP per capita: 16.288 $ Nominal GDP 2020: 4,870 billions $ PPP per capita: n.d. GDP PPP 2020: n.d. Internet TLD:
French Guianese Creole: Lagwiyann is an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. It borders Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. It has a very low population density, half of its inhabitants in 2022 lived in the metropolitan area of Cayenne, its capital. 98.9% of the land territory of It is covered by forests, a large part of which is primeval rainforest. The Guiana Amazonian Park Economy: As a part of France, French Guiana is part of the EU and the Eurozone; its currency is the euro. The country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for French Guiana is .gf, but .fr is generally used instead. From the 1960s to the 2000s, French Guiana  experienced strong economic growth, fueled by the development of France's Guiana Space Centre (established in French Guiana in 1964 as the independence of Algeria in 1962 led to the closure of France's space center in the Algerian Sahara)
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