French Guiana - Tourism and Travel

French Guiana is an overseas department of France located on South America's north coast, along the Atlantic Ocean.

It has an area of 34,749 square miles (90,000 square kilometers).

Most of the land in French Guiana is low lying. There are dense tropical rainforests.

The Guiana Shield, which lies beneath Guiana, Suriname, French Guiana and parts of Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia is one of the oldest land surfaces in the world. It was probably formed more than 4 billion years ago.

Chemical weathering of the Guiana Shield over millions of years has led to the development of table mountains with flat tops and inselbergs, solitary hills in the middle of plains.

The capital of French Guiana is Cayenne.

There is a spaceport in French Guiana. It has been used by the European Space Agency.

226,000 people live in French Guiana.

Fishing are forestry are the main industries.

There are unexploited mineral resources.

The country is dependent on economic aid from France.

French Guiana's official currency is the euro.