FRANCE

FRENCH GUIANA: Overseas department of France, situated on the northeastern coast of South America. It is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east and south by Brazil, and on the west by Suriname. First settled by the French in 1604, French Guiana was the site of notorious penal settlements until 1951. The European Space Agency launches its communication satellites from Kourou.

GUADELOUPE: Overseas department of France, in the French West Indies, in the Eastern Caribbean Sea, off the north-western coast of South America. One of the Windward Islands.

MARTINIQUE: Overseas department of France, in the French West Indies, in the Eastern Caribbean Sea, off the north-western coast of South America. One of the Windward Islands.