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The Guiana Space Centre is a French and European spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, a region of France in South America. Operational since 1968, it is particularly suitable as a location for a spaceport. It fulfills the two major geographical requirements of such a site:
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The French Guiana national football team is the regional team of the French overseas department and region of French Guiana and is controlled by the Ligue de Football de Guyane, the local branch of Fédération Française de Football.
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Chantal Berthelot is a French politician, former member of the French National Assembly representing department of French Guiana.
French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. It borders Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. French Guiana is the only territory of the mainland Americas to have full integration in a European country.
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Rodolphe Alexandre is a French political figure from French Guiana. The former Mayor of Cayenne, he is president of the Guiana Assembly, the deliberative assembly of French Guiana, since its establishment on 1 January 2016.
Lénaïck Adam is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been a member of the French National Assembly since 2018, representing department of French Guiana.
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