
Information
Name: French Guyana (France overs. dep.)
Type: Polity
Nation: french guyana
Start: 1797
End: 2022
French Guyana (France overs. dep.): 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.