This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for French Guiana and United States. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on climate, refugees, airports, sun position and much more.
In addition, we offer several international comparisons on individual topics, which are also linked on this page.
In addition, we offer several international comparisons on individual topics, which are also linked on this page.
General information
| French Guiana | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Region: | South America | North America |
| Area: | 83,534 km² | 9,831,510 km² |
| Official language: | French | English |
| Government form: | Overseas territory of France | Federal presidential republic |
| Capital: | Cayenne | Washington, D.C. |
Population
| French Guiana | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Population: | 181,000 | 331,894,000 |
| Inhabitants/km²: | 2.2 | 33.8 |
Economy
| French Guiana | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Currency: | euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent) | US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents) |
| GUF: total | per 1000 inh. | USA: total | per 1000 inh. |
|---|
Infrastructure
| GUF: total | per 1000 inh. | USA: total | per 1000 inh. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passenger airports: | 5 | 0.0276 | 436 | 0.0013 |
Telecommunication
| French Guiana | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| International dialing: | +594 | +1 |
| Internet domain: | .gf | .us |
| GUF total | GUF per 1000 inh. | USA total | USA per 1000 inh. |
|---|
Climate
We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.The data for each country can be found here: French Guiana and United States
| French Guiana | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Daytime temperatures: | 31.6 °C | 18.7 °C |
| Nighttime temperatures: | 22.9 °C | 7.2 °C |
| Rel. humidity: | 86 % | 67 % |
| Rain days: | 17.3 | 7.1 |
| Sunshine hours per day: | 5.1 | 7.2 |
Native languages
| French Guiana | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| English: | n/a | 82.1 % |
| Creole-French: | 64.3 % | n/a |
| French: | 30.7 % | 0.7 % |
| Spanish: | n/a | 10.7 % |
| Hakka: | 2.4 % | n/a |
| Hindi: | 1.9 % | n/a |
| Chinese: | n/a | 0.9 % |
| German: | n/a | 0.6 % |
| Italian: | n/a | 0.6 % |
| Tagalog: | n/a | 0.4 % |
| Korean: | n/a | 0.3 % |
| Polish: | n/a | 0.3 % |
| Vietnamese: | n/a | 0.2 % |
| Japanese: | n/a | 0.2 % |
| Portuguese: | n/a | 0.2 % |
| Russian: | n/a | 0.2 % |
| Eskimo: | n/a | 0.0 % |
| other: | 0.7 % | 2.6 % |