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  French Guiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
French Guiana (French: Guyane française, officially Guyane) is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located on the northern coast of South America.
French Guiana is the smallest political entity on the South American mainland (Suriname is the smallest independent South American country).
French Guiana consists of two main geographical regions: a coastal strip where the majority of the people live, and dense, near-inaccessible rainforest which gradually rises to the modest peaks of the Tumac-Humac mountains along the Brazilian frontier.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : French Guiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
French Guiana (French: Guyane française, officially Guyane) is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located on the Caribbean coast of South America and part of Caribbean South America.
It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west (part of the southern border with Suriname is disputed).
French Guiana consists of three main geographical regions: a coastal strip where the majority of the people live, then dense, near-inaccessible rainforest, which gradually rises to the modest peaks of the Tumac-Humac mountains along the Brazilian frontier.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /French_Guiana   (1542 words)

  
 SCL Frequently Asked Questions
The former include Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, St. Lucia and Trinidad, all former French territories (except for Trinidad which, though not politically colonised by France, was socioculturally influenced by the French and French Creoles).
Once the language of both kings and peasants, it faced serious status issues in the eleventh century, after the Norman Conquest (it was viewed negatively by the conquerors) and again during the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, during the Renaissance (it was viewed negatively by English speakers themselves).
St. Lucian French Creole orthography has been informally adopted for Trinidadian, which was the first Atlantic French Creole-speaking territory to produce a grammar of the language (John Jacob Thomas, 1869).
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 Learn more about French Guiana in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Learn more about French Guiana in the online encyclopedia.
The département of Guiana or French Guiana (French Guyane), is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located on the Caribbean coast of South America.
As part of France, French Guiana is part of the European Union, the largest part (in area) outside Europe and the only part outside Europe that is not an island.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /f/fr/french_guiana.html   (189 words)

  
 french guiana - All About France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
French Guiana travel planner contains everything you need to know to plan a trip to French Guiana including top attractions, hotels, transportation, tours, maps, geography, articles, features, history,and resources to learn about French Guiana...(Continue Reading)
Descriptions of the country, wildlife, geography, history and plants of French Guiana from Bonnie Hamre, your guide to South America...(Continue Reading)
French Guiana (French: Guyane française, officially Guyane) is an overseas … As an integral part of France, French Guiana is part of the European Union, …
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 Guyane Car Hire Savings - Cheap Car Hire in Guyane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Guyane Car Hire Savings - Cheap Car Hire in Guyane
Guyane (French Guiana) is located on the North Atlantic coast of South America.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Country name
former: French Territory of the Afars and Issas, French Somaliland
conventional long form: Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
local short form: Schweiz (German), Suisse (French), Svizzera (Italian)
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