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    The Guianas, also spelled Guyanas or Guayanas, is a region in north-eastern South America. Strictly, the term refers to the three Guyanas: Guyana, Suriname...
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    French Guiana (/ɡiˈɑːnə/ or /ɡiˈænə/; French: Guyane, [ɡɥijan] ; French Guianese Creole: Lagwiyann or Gwiyann, [la.ɡwi.jãn]) is an overseas department...
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    British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies, which resides on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has...
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  • Look up Dutch Guiana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dutch Guiana may refer to: Dutch colonisation of the Guianas, the coastal region between the...
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    coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre spatial guyanais; CSG), also called Europe's...
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    The Discovery of Guiana is a book by Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to Guiana, the Venezuelan region of Guayana...
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    The Guiana Shield (French: Plateau des Guyanes, Bouclier guyanais; Dutch: Hoogland van Guyana, Guianaschild; Portuguese: Planalto das Guianas, Escudo...
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    The Dutch began their colonisation of the Guianas, the coastal region between the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in South America, in the late 16th century...
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    French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America, has no official flag of its own. A flag with green and yellow fields...
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  • CONCACAF alongside Suriname and French Guiana. Until the independence of Guyana (1966), it competed as British Guiana. They qualified for the Caribbean Nations...
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    French Guiana is not a separate territory but is both an overseas région and overseas department of France, with the same government institutions as areas...
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    Demerara (Dutch: Demerary, [ˌdeːməˈraːri]) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana...
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    pronunciation: [kajɛn] ; Guianese Creole French: Kayenn) is the prefecture of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America. The...
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  • The French Guiana national football team (French: Sélection de Guyane de football) is the regional football team of the French overseas department and...
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  • Guiana Island Guiana Island (or Guana Island) is an island off the northeast coast of Antigua, between the Parham Peninsula and Crump Island. It forms...
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    departmental heads of French Guiana, since the establishment of the French suzerainty over the territory of French Guiana in 1643, to the present day....
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    The border is located between the Brazilian state of Amapá and French Guiana. It is 730 kilometres (450 mi) in length. It is the longest border France...
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  • The Demographics of French Guiana are characterized by a young population with 44% below the age of 20 as of 2017. The total population stood at 268,700...
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    Guyana (category The Guianas)
    from Guiana, an earlier name for a larger region that included the areas now called Guyana (British Guiana), Suriname (Dutch Guiana), French Guiana, the...
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  • The economy of French Guiana is tied closely to that of mainland France through subsidies and imports. Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing...
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    Transport in French Guiana consists of transport by road, boat, bus, and airplane. There is a railway line within the Guiana Space Centre to transport...
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    collectivities below the region level. The exceptions are Corsica, French Guiana, Mayotte and Martinique, where region and department functions are managed...
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  • The Guiana Rally (French: Guyane rassemblement, GR) is a political party in the French overseas région of French Guiana, in South America. Guiana Rally...
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    British Guiana 1c magenta is regarded by many philatelists as the world's most famous rare stamp. It was issued in limited numbers in British Guiana (now...
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  • French Guiana is an overseas region of France, located on the northern coast of South America between Suriname and Brazil. The country is part of Caribbean...
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    The Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis), also known as the estuarine dolphin or costero, is a dolphin found in the coastal waters to the north and east...
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    swamps. It is known by its common names Malabar chestnut, French peanut, Guiana chestnut, Provision tree, Saba nut, Monguba (Brazil), Pumpo (Guatemala)...
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    The history of French Guiana dates back to the period prior to European colonization. Prior to the arrival of the first Europeans, there was no written...
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    group from Latin America in France. Nearly half of them live in French Guiana, including many who have crossed the border illegally. The ancestral origins...
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    Surinam (Dutch colony) (category Dutch colonisation of the Guianas)
    (Dutch: Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas, bordered by the equally Dutch colony of Berbice...
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