s department of France)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 91,000 km2; land area: 89,150 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Indiana

_#_Land boundaries: 1,183 km total; Brazil 673 km, Suriname 510 km

_#_Coastline: 378 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: Suriname claims area between Riviere Litani and
Riviere Marouini (both headwaters of the Lawa)

_#_Climate: tropical; hot, humid; little seasonal temperature
variation

_#_Terrain: low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small
mountains

_#_Natural resources: bauxite, timber, gold (widely scattered),
cinnabar, kaolin, fish

_#_Land use: arable land NEGL%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and
pastures NEGL%; forest and woodland 82%; other 18%

_#_Environment: mostly an unsettled wilderness

_*_People
_#_Population: 101,603 (July 1991), growth rate 3.3% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 28 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 5 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 10 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 18 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 69 years male, 76 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 3.7 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--French Guianese (sing., pl.); adjective--French
Guiana

_#_Ethnic divisions: black or mulatto 66%; Caucasian 12%; East Indian,
Chinese, Amerindian 12%; other 10%

_#_Religion: predominantly Roman Catholic

_#_Language: French

_#_Literacy: 82% (male 81%, female 83%) age 15 and over can
read and write (1982)

_#_Labor force: 23,265; services, government, and commerce 60.6%,
industry 21.2%, agriculture 18.2% (1980)

_#_Organized labor: 7% of labor force

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: Department of Guiana

_#_Type: overseas department of France

_#_Capital: Cayenne

_#_Administrative divisions: none (overseas department of France)

_#_Independence: none (overseas department of France)

_#_Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

_#_Legal system: French legal system

_#_National holiday: Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789)

_#_Executive branch: French president, commissioner of the republic

_#_Legislative branch: unicameral General Council and a unicameral
Regional Council

_#_Judicial branch: highest local court is the Court of Appeals
based in Mart