Cayenne is the
capital of the
French overseas
région of
French Guiana. The city stands on a former island at the mouth of the
Cayenne River on the
Atlantic coast.At the
1999 census, there were 66,149 inhabitants in the urban area of Cayenne (as defined by
INSEE), 50,594 of whom lived in the city (
commune) of Cayenne proper, and the remainder in the neighbouring commune of
Remire-Montjoly. The commune of
Matoury (18,032 inhabitants in 1999), where the
Cayenne-Rochambeau Airport is located, is also a suburb of Cayenne, but it wasn't included in the official definition of the urban area by INSEE in 1999. Including Matoury, the whole conurbation had 84,181 inhabitants in 1999. By 2007 the area's population may have exceeded 100,000.
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