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Cayenne9
  • The first French establishment is recorded in 1503, but France did not establish a durable presence until colonists founded Cayenne in 1643. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2009, the Church created a third branch (the Matoury Branch) and organized the three branches into its own district called the Cayenne French Guiana District. (cumorah.com)
  • Missionaries report that many members in the Cayenne Branch speak languages other than French such as Spanish, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole. (cumorah.com)
  • You can catch a direct 8.5-hour flight on Air France from Paris to Cayenne, French Guiana's capital city, for less than most flights to North America. (hecktictravels.com)
  • Approaching Cayenne we drove through a business park filled with all the same big box stores, brand names, and giant roundabouts you find outside of any French city. (hecktictravels.com)
  • In Cayenne, you can find everything from casual pubs and food trucks to fine dining in the French tradition, while in the rural areas there are still restaurants specialising in 'bush meat' (wild game) and family-style meals. (hecktictravels.com)
  • Cayenne could emerge as a hub for aviation traffic from Europe to the Guianas, and already there is a likelihood of flights from Guyana to French Guiana, according to France's Ambassador to Guyana. (demerarawaves.com)
  • Unité des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales (UMIT), Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana. (bvsalud.org)
  • French Armed Forces Health Service in French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana. (bvsalud.org)
South America8
  • French Guianese Creole: Lagwiyann or Gwiyann, [la.ɡwi.jãn]) is an overseas department of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas. (wikipedia.org)
  • French Guiana is the only territory on the continental mainland of either North or South America that is still under the sovereignty of a European state. (wikipedia.org)
  • French Guiana is located in South America and has a surface area equivalent to Portugal. (afd.fr)
  • Tuesday's launch will mark the first of up to 13 missions planned from French Guiana this year by Arianespace, the French launch services company in charge of Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega rocket flights form the European-run spaceport on the northeastern coast of South America. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • All three countries in the upper right corner of South America were former colonies (France, the Netherlands, and Britain) but only French Guiana is still a territory while the other two are independent. (amateurtraveler.com)
  • When Pete and I first began our travels, we spent almost a year roaming South America, but French Guiana was one of the few countries we didn't visit. (hecktictravels.com)
  • My week in French Guiana was my first experience with South America, and I had no idea how these two distinct cultures would merge into one territory, but I was excited to find out. (hecktictravels.com)
  • Touching down at Cayenne's Félix Eboué Airport, the atmosphere is much more 'South America' than it is 'France. (hecktictravels.com)
20231
  • The French government was also expected to launch its CSO-3 reconnaissance satellite on a Soyuz in early 2023. (spacenews.com)
Guyane5
  • Since December 2015, both the region and department have been ruled by a single assembly within the framework of a new territorial collectivity, the French Guiana Territorial Collectivity (French: collectivité territoriale de Guyane). (wikipedia.org)
  • This assembly, the French Guiana Assembly (French: assemblée de Guyane), replaced the former regional council and departmental council, which were disbanded. (wikipedia.org)
  • French Guiana is a overseas department and territory of France.Enter 973 or Guyane for the Location or Region. (searchpeopledirectory.com)
  • To further compound my confusion, my assignment was from France where the territory is called Guyane.Once I had sorted out the name game, I had to wrap my head around what French Guiana is. (hecktictravels.com)
  • Mortalité en Antilles-Guyane / edité par F. Hatton, P. Bazély. (who.int)
Brazil7
  • Bordered by Suriname to the west and Brazil to the east and south, French Guiana covers a land area of 83,534 km2 (32,253 sq mi), and is inhabited by 301,099 people. (wikipedia.org)
  • The border between French Guiana and Brazil is the longest land border that France shares with another country, as well as one of only two borders which France shares with non-European states, the other being the border with Suriname in the west. (wikipedia.org)
  • The addition of the adjective "French" in most languages other than French is rooted in colonial times, when five such colonies (The Guianas) had been named along the coast, subject to differing powers: 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 in Brazil). (wikipedia.org)
  • On the Guiana Shield, AFD is established in Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil . (afd.fr)
  • Company in French Guiana, import/export all product between France, French Guiana, and Brazil. (tradeboss.com)
  • Challenges to circulation on the border between brazil and french Guiana (France). (bvsalud.org)
  • ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the the vulnerabilities to illnesses in women living on the border of the Guiana Shield mines: Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname. (bvsalud.org)
Suriname6
  • French Guiana and the two larger countries to the north and west, Guyana and Suriname, are still often collectively referred to as "the Guianas" and constitute one large landmass known as the Guiana Shield. (wikipedia.org)
  • On both sides of the Maroni River, waste management, hospital cooperation and the development of complementary healthcare systems are among the key cooperation activities between French Guiana and Suriname. (afd.fr)
  • Hear about travel to the Guianas (French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana) as the Amateur Traveler talks to Marcello Arrambide from wanderingtrader.com about his recent trip to these three South American countries. (amateurtraveler.com)
  • On the north-west, it borders Suriname (once called Dutch Guiana) which is in turn beside Guyana (once British Guiana). (hecktictravels.com)
  • Alluding to the emerging oil and gas sectors in Guyana and Suriname as well as changes in French Guiana he said there was enormous potential for direct connectivity among the three territories. (demerarawaves.com)
  • Guyanese often travel overland through Suriname to and from French Guiana. (demerarawaves.com)
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Guyana6
  • In addition to the divisions that ship or provide logistic services in Guyana (French) , DHL has other divisions that operate in various countries around the world. (dhl.com)
  • Not to be confused with Guyana , The Guianas , French Guinea , or Guyenne . (wikipedia.org)
  • Mr Lacoste said a French Embassy could be opened in Guyana in the coming years but that depends on a number of factors. (demerarawaves.com)
  • It will depend on if we have sufficient French people, French enterprises engaging with Guyana. (demerarawaves.com)
  • Telepeformance, a business processing outsourcing/ call centre, is a large French investment in Guyana. (demerarawaves.com)
  • Mr Lacoste is optimistic about the prospect of more French businesses investing in Guyana, following a trade mission here about three weeks ago. (demerarawaves.com)
Amazonian Park2
  • The Guiana Amazonian Park, which is the largest national park in the European Union, covers 41% of French Guiana's territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is assisted by leading actors, such as the French Guiana Amazonian Park. (afd.fr)
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Guiana's9
  • A large part of French Guiana's economy depends on jobs and businesses associated with the presence of the Guiana Space Centre, now the European Space Agency's primary launch site near the equator. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bill Marshall, Professor of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Stirling wrote of French Guiana's origins: The first French effort to colonize Guiana, in 1763, failed utterly, as settlers were subject to high mortality given the numerous tropical diseases and harsh climate: all but 2,000 of the initial 12,000 settlers died. (wikipedia.org)
  • AFD supports local actors in the health sector by contributing to financing French Guiana's main hospital centers. (afd.fr)
  • AFD provides support to French Guiana's private sector and associations that is complementary to commercial banks. (afd.fr)
  • In this respect, AFD's scope of financing now includes social and solidarity economy (SSE) structures, which are essential to French Guiana's economic fabric. (afd.fr)
  • To strengthen French Guiana's links with its neighbors, AFD supports and finances regional cooperation projects to pool know-how between territories on the Guiana Shield. (afd.fr)
  • It thereby provides its financial support and expertise beyond French Guiana's borders, in particular in the sectors of health and environmental protection . (afd.fr)
  • When the Europeans arrived, they came for the slave trade, adding both Caucasian and African blood to French Guiana's melting pot. (hecktictravels.com)
  • These combinations of cultures are known locally as 'Creole,' and the majority of the territory's citizens fall into this category.Of course, as each new wave of immigrants washed up on French Guiana's shores, they came bearing their own customs, traditions, and foods. (hecktictravels.com)
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Spaceport2
Lesser Antilles1
  • It is anticipated that the Barbados Bridgetown Mission will administer all French-speaking islands and multiple English-speaking islands in the Lesser Antilles in addition to French Guiana. (cumorah.com)
Outermost region1
  • French Guiana is the second-largest region of France (more than one-seventh the size of Metropolitan France) and the largest outermost region within the European Union. (wikipedia.org)
Soyuz6
  • WASHINGTON - Roscosmos announced Feb. 26 that it is halting cooperation with Europe on Soyuz launches from French Guiana and withdrawing its personnel from the launch site in response to European sanctions for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (spacenews.com)
  • The announcement will, at a minimum, delay a Soyuz launch of two Galileo navigation satellites that had been scheduled for April from French Guiana, with another pair of Galileo satellites scheduled to launch later in the year on another Soyuz. (spacenews.com)
  • Arianespace, which offers the Soyuz for commercial launches from French Guiana and other spaceports, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (spacenews.com)
  • The decision to suspend Soyuz launches from French Guiana is one of the few levers on space-related issues that Russia can pull to react to Western sanctions without jeopardizing its own space capabilities, such as operations of the International Space Station. (spacenews.com)
  • Future use of the French Guiana launch site by Soyuz rockets was in question even before the Roscosmos announcement. (spacenews.com)
  • Three Soyuz launches are scheduled this year from French Guiana - one with the first six satellites for OneWeb's broadband network, another with four more O3b high-speed Internet satellites, and a mission late this year with an Italian radar observation craft and a European Space Agency telescope to study planets around other stars. (spaceflightnow.com)
Launches2
  • In response to EU sanctions against our enterprises, Roscosmos is suspending cooperation with European partners in organizing space launches" from French Guiana, Roscosmos said in a pair of tweets, citing a statement by its head, Dmitry Rogozin. (spacenews.com)
  • There are up to five Vega launches on this year's schedule at the Guiana Space Center - four using the current variant, plus the debut launch of the Vega-C rocket at the end of the year with enlarged solid-fueled booster stages. (spaceflightnow.com)
Widely spoken1
  • As elsewhere in France, the official language is standard French, but each ethnic community has its own language, of which French Guianese Creole, a French-based creole language, is the most widely spoken. (wikipedia.org)
Caribbean4
  • The French attempted to create a colony there in the 16th century in conjunction with its settlement of some Caribbean islands, such as Guadeloupe and Saint-Domingue. (wikipedia.org)
  • Blacks (descendents of African slaves brought to French Guiana and the Caribbean) and mulattos (mixed black African and Amerindian) constitute the majority. (cumorah.com)
  • If you live in (French) Guiana and need a visa to collect your residence permit for the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom, you cannot do this at the Netherlands consulate in Mont Joly. (netherlandsworldwide.nl)
  • Fourteen representatives of the four languages of the Caribbean (Spanish, English, French, and Dutch) participated in the workshop, 11 of them in person. (bvsalud.org)
Lookup1
Flights planned1
  • That brings the total number of flights planned at the Guiana Space Center this year to 13. (spaceflightnow.com)
Spoken1
  • French is the official language and is spoken by the vast majority of the population. (cumorah.com)
Paris1
Penal colony2
  • After France ceded Louisiana to the United States in 1804, it developed Guiana as a penal colony, establishing a network of camps and penitentiaries along the coast where prisoners from metropolitan France were sentenced to forced labour. (wikipedia.org)
  • Before they were a notorious penal colony, the Îles du Salut (Islands of Salvation) provided French colonists with a welcome escape from the fever-ridden jungles of the Guiana mainland. (seabourn.com)
Coastline1
  • Distribution and characteristics of dissolved organic matter in mangrove sediment pore waters along the coastline of French Guiana. (afs-journal.org)
Guianan1
  • They mixed, mingled, and intermarried in such a way there is truly no one 'look' to the French Guianan people. (hecktictravels.com)
Overseas4
  • The system of slavery in French Guiana continued until the French Revolution, when the National Convention voted to abolish the French slave trade and slavery in France's overseas colonies in February 1794, months after enslaved Haitians had started a slave rebellion in the colony of Saint-Domingue. (wikipedia.org)
  • Through its support to ADIE, AFD also facilitates the establishment of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the French Overseas Territories . (afd.fr)
  • French Guiana is an overseas department of France. (hecktictravels.com)
  • France subsidises flights to all of its overseas territories. (hecktictravels.com)
Colonies1
  • However, the 1794 decree was only implemented in Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe and French Guiana, while the colonies of Senegal, Mauritius, Réunion and Martinique and French India resisted the imposition of these laws. (wikipedia.org)
Centers1
  • For example, it has partly financed the construction of the West French Guiana Hospital Center in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, the renovation of three Decentralized Prevention and Care Centers (CDPS), and the community therapy center for women suffering from addictions of the association AKATIJ. (afd.fr)
Assembly2
  • The French Guiana Assembly is in charge of regional and departmental government. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Ariane 5 rocket reached its launch pad at the Guiana Space Center on Monday after rolling out from a nearby assembly building. (spaceflightnow.com)
Establishment2
  • The West Indies Mission has administered French Guiana since the establishment of an LDS presence with the exception of a three-year period from 1991 to 1994 when French Guiana was administered by the Trinidad and Tobago Mission. (cumorah.com)
  • The French envoy made the disclosure minutes before formally announcing the establishment of a French diplomatic bureau rather than an embassy. (demerarawaves.com)
Rainforest1
Cargo1
  • Known by KACST and Hellas-Sat as Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1 and Hellas-Sat 4, respectively, the satellite was built by Lockheed Martin in Denver, then shipped to the defense contractor's facility in Sunnyvale, California, for environmental testing before flying to French Guiana aboard a cargo plane in preparation for launch. (spaceflightnow.com)
Country1
Embassy1
  • The French Bureau would be headed by a career diplomat from September and would continue to be housed in the European Union Embassy in Georgetown. (demerarawaves.com)
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Roads1
Explore1
  • Explore the leading car hire agencies in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana known for their outstanding service and extensive range of vehicles to choose from. (cheapflights.co.uk)
People3
  • This world meeting planner allows you to choose the date for your meeting and the locations (including French Guiana) of the people attending. (worldtimeserver.com)
  • French Guiana is an oversea department of France inhabited by almost a quarter of a million people. (cumorah.com)
  • Water quality is a major public health issue in Amazonian French Guiana , especially for population at risk ( children , people with comorbidity , travelers). (bvsalud.org)
Currency2
  • Fully integrated in the French Republic since 1946, French Guiana is a part of the European Union, and its official currency is the euro. (wikipedia.org)
  • The currency is the Euro, and the official language is French, yet it is on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and one of the gateways to the Amazon. (hecktictravels.com)
Geographical1
  • A reduced geographical area for the mission may result in larger numbers of missionaries assigned to French Guiana and the exploration of national outreach expansion opportunities. (cumorah.com)
Data2
Infrastructure1
  • French Guiana is faced with a lack of infrastructure, equipment and qualified staff, particularly in the health sector. (afd.fr)
Assignment2
  • The consistent assignment of full-time missionaries for decades despite slow growth and remote location constitutes the Church's crowning success in French Guiana. (cumorah.com)
  • I've always been pretty good with geography, but I'll admit, when I was offered an assignment in French Guiana , I had to look at a map. (hecktictravels.com)
Species1
  • Pore-water chemistry in mangrove sediments: relationship with species composition and developmental stages (French Guiana). (afs-journal.org)
Location1
  • The information below concerning French Guiana is provided for general reference only, and may not be totally accurate in a particular location or circumstance. (countryreports.org)