
Information
Name: French Guyana (France)
Type: Polity
Nation: french guyana
Start: 1643
End: 1946
French Guyana (France): All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
French Guyana is a French possession on the northern coast of South America. French settlement started in 1630, creating the colony of French Guyana. Today French Guyana is an overseas department of France since 1946. It was also an overseas department from 1797 to 1801.