French Guiana: A tropical overseas territory
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Situated north of the Amazon rainforest, French Guiana is France’s only overseas territory on the American continent. Some 95% of its land is blanketed by tropical woodland. The Maroni river, which separates French Guiana from Suriname, is at the heart of people's lives. FRANCE 24 takes you to meet some of the locals, who make a living along the river's banks.
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The government in Paris needs to invest in French Guiana more. There's so much potential there, and it IS an integral part of the Republic, as much as Lyon or Paris itself.
France needs to develop and pamper french giuana.. they should realize its importance and not neglect it!!!... make it beautiful and rich.
Too expensive
@@SuperSimpleasthat but its literally THEIR citizens and territory. french guiana is nothing more than a french colony
@@SuperSimpleasthat thats a dumb excuse
Im from french guiana
It's already the case, the problem is the population there.
About 80% of the territory GDP come from investment of the French state.
It is the reason why French Guiana is the richest territory in South America.
France's longest land border is not with Spain or Belgium, but with Brazil!
It obvious that France doesn't give it enough love.
Very interesting. Thank you very much.
And they use The Euro!
yes
Yup. Not just them though, New Caledonia and Reunion also uses the Euro
What i find really peculiar about places like these is the EU flag on the license plates, for some reasn i find it interesting
Actually, if you look at the map of Europe printed on the euro banknotes, you will find French Guyana, and other French Caribbean territories. You will find also the Spanish Canary Islands, the Portuguese Azores islands, but you will find neither French New Caledonia nor Dutch Curaçao. New Caledonia still uses the French francs, and Curaçao still use the guilders!
"Those who were lost will be found."
They should create a special economic zone, like what the UK did to Hong Kong! It may may help the situation there
trop beau
To the people from French Guiana, how is the situation about secession from France? Is there any support in the population to this idea? I mean, it's a sparsely populated territory, but there are countries who seceded with even a smaller population (Nauru, Barbados, Tonga...). It would be great if anyone from French Guiana could answer :)
Secede?!
Why?
We have neighbors east and west who did that and we’re better off.
Granted, not everything is perfect, we have unemployment (more so than Metropolitan France) and criminality indeed, alongside a lagging investment plan, yet there is a reason Brazilians and Surinamese do their best to come live here.
Note: Guyane has been a part of France for over four centuries, to talk about independance now is kind of « passé » ;)
@@jetaddicted
Only because of French subsidies.
@@shauncameron8390 So? Thousands of people have been trying desperately to cross into the border of French Guinea each year as they are all trying to find better opportunities and safety that they couldn't have back home
Why seceded from France only to find yourself in a much worse condition than before?
France will never let them have independence.
Its crazy how a country with 40%of people in poverty related.to france with lot of european funds as.so bad infraestrutures like roads and expensive prices in first.living goods. Im sad how france lead this country. 8€ for a salade its mad. Poverty is the road to crime, shame on french gov. Politic hipocrisy.
The road in french guiana are not large
Basically other Guyana got independence, they didn't
No. Try laziness. Plus, France accounts for 80% of French Guiana's GDP as French Guiana has no viable economy of its own.
Very interesting....I wonder how many of the inhabitants have been to look at France ?!
A lot of them actually. I have a lot of family there and all of my cousins moved to france for college, where they didn't have to pay tuition.
They look at France everyday, since, you know... they are in France?!? That's like asking how many hawaiians have really seen the US.
@@constantinhaas5887 The commentor clearly meant “ mainland france” lool
French Guiana IS France.
It’s safe?
May I ask how can a foreigner work and sustain his living at here please?
Foreigner can start any business over there or work.
They only showed the poor area but there are restaurants, college, night clubs, buildings...
It is already a huge red tape to open and run a business in France, imagine all the over their colony.
GUYANE IS NOT A COLONY
It’s not the only one in the America’s, have you heard of St Pierre and Miquelon?
The only one on the American continent he said
Martinica y Guadalupe
@@MrDeznMark The Carribean are also part of the American continent
@@handywijaya3689 The what???
It’s a colony given a different name. Time this shameful theft was stopped and the land was given back to the people it belongs to.
They need to demand independence
Colonial link
Haiti without the corruption and mayhem.
hello dagvivor
Blemmye,
has anyone seen
If you thought Colonialism and Imperialism had ended. Here you are.
Dagvivor
It's not French. It's American.
Lol the Americans never even stepped foot on this place
True. It's in the Americas, not Europe
I came here after watching ISKANDER 😃
Guyane française indépendante! Mouvement international pour l'indépendance de la Guyane!
Non ta geule
Keep dreaming boy 😂😂
someone knows why brazil doesnt conquer or buy French Guiana?
They had an invasion plan of French Guiana during the cold war, but it led to nothing and if they try to invade it, they will have NATO coalition against them and will taste a bit of French Nukes
French Foreign Legion are there. That is why.
It would end up like the Falklands war 2.0
France would bully Brazil if they does
“Yeah let’s go to war with a nuclear armed France”. Maybe they’ll even go full Galtieri and count on America to tell France to back off
This video don't show the reality!
It’s France 24. Biggest lying media on the planet.
Give Guiana it's independence. It's shameful to have a colony in the 21st century.
Colonialism
Why are they still part of France? Don't they want to be an independent country?
Apparently they did a referendum and they want it to remain part of France, I don't blame them look at their neighbors
They would be very poor without the money the receive from the French government.
No.
France has put them in a situation where they are dependent on them...
@@MrAlen6e
Suriname and Guyana were governed by far-left Marxists as soon as they got their independence and effectively ran them into the ground.
Isn't all extremely poor and the people there don't even have electricity?
@Doffy Rob No, they are not the richest place in Latin America, they are far from it. You don't know Latin America. French Guiana can be part of France, but it is a forgotten part.
We have electricity
@@karinedesouza2917 we are that Guyanese I say yes to your comment
@Doffy Rob Because of Kourou... All its GDP came from the EU budget, people there never have access to this money, you can't use GDP as a parameter of development, that's stupid...
@Doffy Rob
Not really as Equatorial Guinea has one of the highest GDP's per capita in Africa yet 75% of the population live in poverty.
France colony 😅
French exploitation colony!
Colonie d'exploitation française!
Colonia de exploración francesa!
Colônia de exploração francesa!
bah non
Shut up i m from guinna end i m happy being one of France citizens
@@omineol9897 moi aussi
@@fritoss3437 si comme Algérie française était un département
No