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French Guiana [a] is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.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) [2] [3] [7] and a land area of 83,534 km 2 (32,253 sq mi). [3]
British overseas territory: English: Falkland Islands Spanish: Islas Malvinas: Stanley English: Stanley: 3,398 [17] 12,173 km 2 (4,700 sq mi) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands [n 5] SGS British overseas territory: English: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: King Edward Point English: King Edward Point: No permanent ...
French Polynesia: 318 123 14: Miquelon: Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: 214 83 15: Île Foch: Kerguelen Islands: 206 80 16: Oléron: Atlantic Ocean: 190 73 17: Raiatea: French Polynesia: 173 67 18: Marie-Galante: Guadeloupe: 158 61 19: Île de la Possession: Crozet Islands: 153 59 20: Île des Pins: New Caledonia: 141 54 21: Ouvéa: New Caledonia ...
The French Republic is divided into 18 regions: 12 in mainland France and 6 elsewhere (1 in Europe: Corsica; 2 in the Caribbean (the Lesser Antilles): Guadeloupe and Martinique; 1 in South America: French Guiana; and 2 in the Indian Ocean near East Africa: Mayotte and Réunion). They are traditionally divided between the metropolitan regions ...
Taking advantage of the chaotic political situation, Britain invaded Guadeloupe in 1794. The French responded by sending an expeditionary force led by Victor Hugues, who retook the islands and abolished slavery. [4] More than 1,000 French colonists were killed in the aftermath. [15] Bust of Louis Delgrès, leader of the 1802 slave rebellion
Under the 1947 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean; French Guiana in South America; and Réunion in the Indian Ocean were defined as overseas departments, joining Algeria [1] in North Africa, which had previously been divided into three departments and a territory in 1848. [a]
French Togoland (1918–1960) (formerly a German colony, mandate became a French colony) (now Togo) Nigeria. The Enclaves of Forcados and Badjibo (territory under a lease of 30 years) (1900–1927) The Emirate of Muri (Northeast of Nigeria) (1892–1893) Gambia. Albreda (1681–1857) Kunta Kinteh Island (1695–1697, 1702)
Excluding the district of Adélie Land, where French sovereignty is effective de jure by French law, but where the French exclusive claim on this part of Antarctica is frozen by the Antarctic Treaty (signed in 1959), overseas France covers a land area of 120,396 km 2 (46,485 sq mi) [3] and accounts for 18.0% of the French Republic's land ...