This article is about the capital of French Guiana. For other uses, see Cayenne (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Cheyenne.
Prefecture and commune in French Guiana, France
Cayenne
Prefecture and commune
From top to bottom, left to right: View of the Mount and Fort Cépérou, Place des Palmistes, French Guiana Prefecture Building, Place Léoplod-Héder, City Hall
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Location of the commune (in red) within French Guiana
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Cayenne (/keɪˈɛn/;[5]French pronunciation:[kajɛn]ⓘ; Guianese Creole French: Kayenn) is the prefecture of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America. The city stands on a former island at the mouth of the Cayenne River on the Atlantic coast. The city's motto is "fert aurum industria", which means "work brings wealth".[6] Cayenne is the largest Francophone city of the South American continent.
In the 2020 census, there were 151,887 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Cayenne (as defined by INSEE),[4] 65,956 of whom lived in the city (commune) of Cayenne proper.[7]
^"Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^"Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^INSEE. "Statistiques locales - France par unité urbaine - Population municipale 2020". Retrieved 14 January 2023.
^ abINSEE. "Statistiques locales - France par aire d'attraction des villes - Population municipale 2020". Retrieved 14 January 2023.
^Cayenne Archived 6 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Oxford Dictionaries
^"page concernant le blason de la ville sur le site page de Redris". Pagesperso-orange.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
^INSEE (27 June 2023). "Population en historique depuis 1968" (in French).
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