Guiana Amazonian Park (French: Parc amazonien de Guyane) is the largest national park of France, aiming at protecting part of the Amazonian forest located in French Guiana which covers 41% of the region. It is the largest park in France as well as the largest park in the European Union[1] and one of the largest national parks in the world.
It cannot be accessed from the seashore or by any means other than airplane or pirogue via the Maroni and Oyapock rivers.
The protected area covers some 20,300 square kilometres (7,840 sq mi) for the central area (where full protection is enforced) and 13,600 square kilometres (5,250 sq mi) for the secondary area. Thus, the overall protected area represents some 33,900 square kilometres (13,090 sq mi) of rain forest.[2]
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This has the same energy as France’s longest land border being with Brazil.
It is the longest border France shares with another country, despite not being located in mainland France.
Well, quite literally. The park lies on that exact border.
For the Americans, this is about 3,785,200 US football fields in size for the central area, and 6,335,560 US football fields for the entire park.
Thank you, much appreciated. That’s a little more than 1 football field for every 100 Americans in the central area.
Sidenote: Anything but metric.
Some good trivia Qs here.
