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    The Guianas, also spelled Guyanas or Guayanas, is a region in north-eastern South America. Strictly, the term refers to the three Guianas: Guyana, Suriname...
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  • Dutch Guiana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dutch Guiana may refer to: Dutch colonisation of the Guianas, the coastal region between the Orinoco...
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    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...
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    The Guiana Shield (French: Plateau des Guyanes, Bouclier guyanais; Dutch: Hoogland van Guyana, Guianaschild; Portuguese: Planalto das Guianas, Escudo...
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    The Dutch began their colonisation of the Guianas, the coastal region between the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in South America, in the late 16th century...
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  • fisheries The three Guianas (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) have between 80 and 98% pristine forest cover and are part of the complex ecosystem of The Guiana...
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    British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has...
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    The Discovery of Guiana is a book by Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to Guiana, the Venezuelan region of Guayana...
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    The Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis), also known as the estuarine dolphin or costero, is a dolphin found in the coastal waters to the north and east...
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  • Look up Guiana or Guyana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Guyana is a country in the Guianas, South America. Guyana, Guiana, or Guayana may refer to:...
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    French Guiana is not a separate territory but is both an overseas région and overseas department of France, with the same government institutions as areas...
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    (secondary coordinates) The Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre spatial guyanais; CSG), also called Europe's Spaceport, is a spaceport to the northwest of Kourou...
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    Surinam (Dutch colony) (category Dutch colonisation of the Guianas)
    known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas, bordered by the equally Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony...
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  • Guiana Island (or Guana Island) is an island off the northeast coast of Antigua, between the Parham Peninsula and Crump Island. It forms the southern coast...
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    Dieffenbachia elegans A.M.E.Jonker & Jonker – Bolivia, northwestern Brazil, the Guianas Dieffenbachia enderi Engl. – Colombia Dieffenbachia fortunensis Croat...
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    Hypostomus plecostomus (category Fish of the Caribbean)
    in the aquarium trade. This species' native range is tropical northeastern South America; it naturally occurs in northeastern Brazil, the Guianas, and...
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    Guyana (category The Guianas)
    biodiversity. The country also hosts a part of the Amazon rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest in the world. The region known as "the Guianas" consists...
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    French Guiana. This was not recognized by the superior regional council. Both councils were disbanded in late 2015 and replaced by the French Guiana Assembly...
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    West Indies (redirect from The West Indies)
    the coast of The Guianas (which fell to the French, English and Dutch) and the Orinoco valley, which fell to the Spanish. The Dutch, allied with the Caribs...
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    the Caribbean Football Union of CONCACAF alongside Suriname and French Guiana. Until the independence of Guyana (1966), it competed as British Guiana...
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  • the French West Indies. It was previously part of a larger institution in combination with campuses in French Guiana known as the University of the French...
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  • The Demographics of French Guiana are characterized by a young population with 44% below the age of 20 as of 2017. The total population stood at 268,700...
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  • The economy of French Guiana is tied closely to that of mainland France through subsidies and imports. Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing...
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    Colombia, Maracaibo, Cumaná, and the Federal Dependencies in Venezuela, are also considered culturally Caribbean. French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, and Suriname...
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    The history of French Guiana dates back to the period prior to European colonization. Prior to the arrival of the first Europeans, there was no written...
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  • French Guiana is an overseas region of France, located on the northern coast of South America between Suriname and Brazil. The country is part of Caribbean...
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    border is located between the Brazilian state of Amapá and French Guiana. It is 730 kilometres (450 mi) in length. It is the longest border France shares...
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    Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana New 7 Wonders Cities, a third list organized by New7Wonders and determined...
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    Kayenn) is the prefecture of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America and its capital city. The city stands...
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    and France uses the name "Guiana Amazonian Park" for French Guiana's protected rainforest area. The Amazon represents over half of the total area of remaining...
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