The addition of the adjective French in English comes from colonial times when five such colonies existed (The Guianas), namely from west to east Spanish Guiana (now Guayana Region in Venezuela), British Guiana (now Guyana), Dutch Guiana (now Suriname), French Guiana, and Portuguese Guiana (now Amapá, a state in far northern Brazil).

Astrium builds the rockets in Europe and Arianespace launches them from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

To this day, French Guiana is a department of France.

For more than a week now, French Guiana has been in turmoil.

Agriculture French Guiana has some of the poorest soils in the world.

French Guiana sends two deputies to the French National Assembly, one representing the commune (municipality) of Cayenne and the commune of Macouria, and the other representing the rest of French Guiana.

The tribunal awarded about 94 percent of the disputed territory to British Guiana.

Borders Suriname is situated between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west.

The French overseas départements of French Guiana , Guadeloupe , Martinique and Réunion were placed in small boxes .

The British Guiana Government, then under the leadership of the PPP, also strongly rejected this claim.

It was abolished in 1946, when French Guiana as a whole became an overseas department of France.

Charrière was sentenced to serve time in a maximum security prison on Devil's Island in French Guiana.

In the colonial period the region was called Portuguese Guiana and was part of Portugal's State of Brazil.

Cayenne ( ) is the capital of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America.

In 1809, in retaliation for being forced into exile, the Prince Regent ordered the Portuguese conquest of French Guiana.

In 1831, the administration Essequibo Demerara and Berbice was combined, and the united colony became known as British Guiana.

Edoardo Amaldi The third ATV vehicle arrived in French Guiana in late August 2011 and was launched on 23 March 2012.

Three South American entities, the independent nations of Guyana and Suriname and the French department of French Guiana, are also members.

This Treaty shall apply to Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands in accordance with Article III 424.

Some ethnic Carib communities remain on the South American mainland, in countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, France (French Guiana), Guyana, Suriname and Belize.

The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 established the boundaries between the colony of Brazil and French Guiana, but these were not respected by the French.

Saint Laurent du Maroni is one of the two sub prefectures of French Guiana and the seat of the Arrondissement of Saint Laurent du Maroni.

As of 1996, cougar hunting was prohibited in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, and Uruguay.

Arianespace launches Ariane rockets from the Centre Spatial Guyanais at Kourou in French Guiana, where the proximity to the equator gives a significant advantage for the launch.

Languages The official language of French Guiana is French, and it is the predominant language of the department, spoken by most residents as a first or second language.

British Guiana (also spelled Guyana) was the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, since 1966 known as the independent nation of Guyana.

The provisions of the Treaties shall apply to Guadeloupe , French Guiana , Martinique , Réunion , Saint Barthélemy , Saint Martin , the Azores , Madeira and the Canary Islands in accordance with Article 349 .

Later, it became a British colony, known as British Guiana, and remained so for over 200 years until it achieved independence on 26 May 1966 from the United Kingdom.

Territorial disputes Western boundary with Venezuela In 1840, the British Government assigned Robert Hermann Schomburgk to survey and mark out the western boundary of British Guiana with newly independent Venezuela.

Millions of Haitians live abroad in the United States, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Canada (primarily Montreal), Bahamas, France, French Antilles, the Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Brazil and French Guiana.

Historically, the region known as Guiana or Guyana comprised the large shield landmass north of the Amazon River and east of the Orinoco River known as the Land of many waters .

France also borders Suriname to its west and Brazil to its east and south, by way of the overseas region of French Guiana, which is considered an integral part of the Republic.

The Oyapock or Oiapoque River ( or ) is a 370 km (230 mi) long river in South America that forms most of the border between French Guiana and the Brazilian state of Amapá.

Pico da Neblina (, Mist Peak ) is the highest mountain in Brazil, above sea level, in the Serra da Neblina, Serra do Imeri, a section of the Guiana Highlands on the Brazil Venezuela border.

In the north, the Guiana Highlands form a major drainage divide, separating rivers that flow south into the Amazon Basin from rivers that empty into the Orinoco River system, in Venezuela, to the north.

Geography With of continental land and of jurisdictional water and small river islands, Uruguay is the second smallest sovereign nation in South America (after Suriname) and the third smallest territory (French Guiana is the smallest).

The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60 of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13 , Colombia with 10 , and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.

King Dom João VI embarked upon a series of wars of conquest which resulted in the expansion of Brazil's territory with the annexation of Cisplatina to the south and of French Guiana to the north.

Located in the far northern part of the country, Amapá is bordered clockwise by French Guiana to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Pará to the south and west, and Suriname to the northwest.

The countries included in this range are Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica (particularly on the Osa Peninsula), Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, the United States and Venezuela.

Small enclaves of French , Dutch and English speaking regions also exist in Latin America, notably in French Guiana, Suriname, and Belize and Guyana respectively, and Haitian Creole, of French origin, is dominant in the nation of Haiti.

From French Guiana, dailymotion user lesmezenesshows us the creole tradition of the touloulous, women who during the nights of carnival dress in elaborate dresses that completely cover them, including gloves, head wrap and a face covering, so they become unrecognizable.

Geography Brazil occupies a large area along the eastern coast of South America and includes much of the continent's interior, sharing land borders with Uruguay to the south Argentina and Paraguay to the southwest Bolivia and Peru to the west Colombia to the northwest and Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana to the north.

The southernmost borders with French Guiana and Guyana are disputed by these countries along the Marowijne and Corantijn rivers, respectively, while a part of the disputed maritime boundary with Guyana was arbitrated by a tribunal convened under the rules set out in Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on 20 September 2007.