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Cayenne – Félix Éboué Airport (French: Aéroport de Cayenne – Félix Éboué, IATA: CAY, ICAO: SOCA) is French Guiana's main international airport. It is located near the commune of Matoury, 13 kilometres (8 mi) southwest of French Guiana's capital city of Cayenne.
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]
The French Guiana Zoo (French: Zoo de Guyane) is a zoo in French Guiana, France.It is located between Macouria and Montsinéry. [2] The zoo opened in 1983 as a hummingbird centre and was called Fauna Flora Amazonica.
Guyana (/ ɡ aɪ ˈ æ n ə / or /ɡiːˈɑːnə/), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America.
Kourou (/ k uː ˈ r uː /; French pronunciation:) is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France in South America.Kourou is famous for being the location of the Guiana Space Centre, the main spaceport of France and the European Space Agency (ESA).
It was previously part of a larger institution in combination with campuses in French Guiana known as the University of the French West Indies and Guiana. As a result of funding disputes, that university was separated into two distinct institutions based on its constituent parts in French Guiana and the Lesser Antilles respectively.