Flag of French Guiana
Locally Guyane
What the flag looks like
Divided diagonally from the upper hoist to the lower fly, green above and yellow below, with a red five-pointed star in the center. It has no official status; the French tricolor is the official flag.
What it means
Green stands for the forest that covers almost all of the territory, yellow for its gold and mineral wealth, and the red star for the blood of its people or for socialism.
How to remember it
French Guiana
is a diagonal of rainforest green over gold, pinned in the middle by a single red star.
Fun facts
- The flag was created by Guianese students in Paris in the 1960s and taken up by the Union of Guianese Workers in 1967; the General Council of French Guiana adopted it in 2010.
- French Guiana is home to the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, Europe's main spaceport.
French Guiana at a glance
- Status
- Overseas department and region of France
- Sovereign state
- France
- Capital
- Cayenne
- Region
- French overseas region
- Population
- 298,554
- Area
- 83,534 km²
- Languages
- French, French Guianese Creole
- Currency
- Euro (€)
- Flag adopted
- 2010