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List Of Governors Of French Guiana
The government of the French colony of French Guiana was headed by a governor until 1946, when the territory became an overseas department of France. Governors of Guiana during the Portuguese occupation (1809-1817) *January - October 1809 Colonel of Artillery Manuel Marques *October 1809 - February 1812 Pedro Alexandrino Pinto de Sousa *February 1812 - November 1817 João Severiano Maciel da Costa Governors of French Guiana (1817-1946) *1817 - 1819 Claude Carra de Saint-Cyr *1819 - 1823 Pierre Clément de Laussat *1823 - 1825 Pierre Bernard Milius *1825 - 1826 Charles de Muyssart *1826 - 1827 Joseph de Burgues de Missiessy *1827 - 1829 Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet *1829 - 1836 Jean Jubelin *1836 - 1837 François-Dominique Laurens de Choisy *1837 - 1839 Paul de Nourquer du Camper *1839 - 1841 Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Augustin Gourbeyre *1841 - 1843 Pons-Guillaume-Bazile Charmasson de Puylaval *1843 - 1845 Marie Jean-François Layrle *1845 - 184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Guiana
French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. It borders Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. With a land area of , French Guiana is the second-largest Regions of France, region of France (more than one-seventh the size of Metropolitan France) and the largest Special member state territories and the European Union, outermost region within the European Union. It has a very low population density, with only . (Its population is less than that of Metropolitan France.) Half of its 294,436 inhabitants in 2022 lived in the metropolitan area of Cayenne, its Prefectures in France, capital. 98.9% of the land territory of French Guiana is covered by forests, a large part of which is Old-growth forest, primeval Tropical r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |