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French Guiana

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FRENCH GUIANA
FRENCH GUIANA

French Guiana is a département of France. It forms part of the French mail system.

For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here External, to postal code pages here External and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here External.

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Table of Contents

French Guiana - Country information

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Local short name form

Official name

Area

Population

285 133 (2020 estimate) [1]

Capital

Currency

International telephone access code

594

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

GF

Internet country code

GF

GRC Country Code

FGU

French Guiana - Number format

   Note: This section last updated 19th April 2021
   1 234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and a space the thousands separator)

French Guiana - Date and time formats

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   Note: This section last updated 19th April 2021
   dd/mm/yyyy
   dd.mm.yyyy
   dd-mm-yyyy

The 24-hour clock notation is used, with h, indicating heures, hours, often used as a separator:

   14h32
   14:32   

French Guiana - Languages

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French Guiana has ten languages. The official language is French External. 50 000 people speak French Guianese External, a French-based Creole. Other languages are Arawak External (150-200 speakers); Hakka Chinese External; Emerillon External (200 speakers); Caribbean Javanese External; Kalihna External (1 200 speakers); Palikúr External (600 speakers); Wayampi External (400 speakers) and Wayana External (200 speakers).

French Guiana - Address formats

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Please refer to the chapter on France for address information.

French Guiana - Postal codes

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All French Guianan postal codes (Code Postal) commence with the digits 973.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired External

French Guiana - Postal code format graphic

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French Guiana - Postal code format

French Guiana - Postal code specifics

French Guiana - Postal code regular expression

\A((973)[0-9][0-9])\Z

French Guiana - Postal code level of coverage

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French Guiana - Postal code map

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Place names in French Guiana

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   Note: This section last updated 8th May 2016

Refer to Exonyms in French Guiana for full lists of place names in French Guiana in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http:www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm External
   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm External

French Guiana - Administrative districts

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   Note: This section last updated 17th May 2011

French Guiana is a département of France and has the same administrative structure as départements in metropolitan France. Administrative area names are not used in addresses.

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Telephone numbers in French Guiana

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   Note: This section last updated 24th February 2023

French Guianan telephone numbers have no area codes. All subscriber numbers have 9 digits when called from abroad. Mobile numbers commence 694.

   Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm External 

References

  1. ^ citypopulation.de/en/france/cities/guyane/ External 20230111

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