France in South America? 30 INSANE Facts About French Guiana

France in South America?! 🇫🇷 Welcome to French Guiana — the strangest piece of France on Earth. People here pay in euros, vote in French elections, and watch European rockets blast off over the Amazon rainforest. France's longest land border isn't with Spain… it's with Brazil. 🇧🇷 In this documentary we count down 30 INSANE facts about French Guiana — from Devil's Island and the penal colony that once held France's most famous prisoner, to the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou where Europe (and the James Webb Space Telescope) left Earth. A jungle that launches rockets, a prison island within sight of the launch pads, and a land of gold, giant sea turtles, and the oldest rocks in France. Which fact rewired YOUR map of the world? Tell us in the comments 👇 🔔 Subscribe to Adventure Chuckles for more geography that makes Earth feel like an alien planet — the next documentary is already on the launch pad. --- 🔎 TOPICS COVERED IN THIS VIDEO: • Why French Guiana is France, not a colony — euros, French elections, EU member • France's largest department, bigger than West Virginia • France's longest land border is with Brazil (730 km), not Spain • Europe's spaceport in the Amazon — Ariane 6 at Kourou, the equator's free push • The James Webb Space Telescope launched from this jungle • Russia's Soyuz launches from here until 2022 • The Kourou disaster: 13,000 settlers lost • Devil's Island & the penal colony — 70,000 convicts, Dreyfus, Papillon • The Oyapock River bridge that took 50 years to open • Cayenne — founded 1643, and yes, the spice is named after it 🌶️ • 99% rainforest, the EU's largest national park, and the world's top leatherback beach 📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING: (see pinned comment / video credits for the grouped source list from the research pack) #FrenchGuiana #Geography #Documentary