The French Guiana Assembly is in charge of regional and departmental government. This assembly, the French Guiana Assembly (French: assemblée de Guyane), replaced the former regional council and departmental council, which were disbanded. Since December 2015, both the region and department have been ruled by a single assembly within the framework of a single territorial collectivity, the French Guiana Territorial Collectivity (French: collectivité territoriale de Guyane). The Guiana Amazonian Park, which is the largest national park in the European Union, covers 41% of French Guiana's territory. 98.9% of the land territory of French Guiana is covered by forests, a large part of which is primeval rainforest. Half of its 295,385 inhabitants in 2024 lived in the metropolitan area of Cayenne, its capital. It has a very low population density, with only 3.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (9.3/sq mi). Bordered by Suriname to the west and Brazil to the east and south, French Guiana covers a total area of 84,000 km 2 (32,000 sq mi) and a land area of 83,534 km 2 (32,253 sq mi), and is inhabited by 295,385 people.įrench 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. French Guiana ( / ɡ i ˈ ɑː n ə/ or / ɡ i ˈ æ n ə/ French: Guyane, ⓘ French Guianese Creole: Lagwiyann or Gwiyann, ) is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.
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