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Why didn't Brazil annex Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana?

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Because Brazil always had more than enough tropical jungle and risking a war against a major European power to add a few thousand more square kilometres of tropical jungle didn't seem like a good idea. read more

Brazil did annex French Guyana during the Napoleonic wars. Portuguese conquest of French Guiana. But the Vienna Congress gave it back to France. Any invasion of a English colony (Guyana) or a Dutch colony (Suriname) would be frowned upon and give Brazil big problems (probably an war against industrialized nations). read more

Guiana is a Department of France and no longer a colony. Its political status is similar to the state of Hawaii. The French sent 12,000 settlers to Guiana in 1763, but within a year only 2000 were still alive. read more

At the 2014 census, 57.3% of the inhabitants of French Guiana were born in the region, 9.3% were born in Metropolitan France, 3.0% were born in the French Caribbean departments and collectivities (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy), and 30.2% were born in foreign countries (primarily Suriname, Brazil and Haiti). read more

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The Loneliness of the Guyanas
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WI Brazil invade French Guyana in 1961
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