Realm · 1791

French Colony of Guiana

French Colony of Guiana appears on the map from 1791 to 1791. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1791, it covered about 19,565 km².

One of the realms of French Colonial Empire. France's first colonial empire began with Jacques Cartier's voyages to the St Lawrence in 1534 and grew into New France, a vast fur-trading realm reaching down the Mississippi to Louisiana, plus rich sugar islands such as Saint-Domingue worked by enslaved Africans. Defeat by Britain in 1763 cost Canada and most of India, the Haitian Revolution freed Saint-Domingue, and Napoleon sold Louisiana in 1803.

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On the map

1791

Greatest extent

1791, about 19,565 km²

Part of

Kingdom of France

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Wikipedia: French Guiana · Wikidata Q3769