If the French space agency (when looking for a new site for their
spaceport in the mid-1960s to get away from their existing site in
Algeria) had not chosen French Guiana in which to put the new
spaceport, would it have chosen present-day Suriname or Guyana (given
similar geographies to French Guiana)? For more reference, see the
following page from the French space agency:
http://www.cnes-csg.fr/web/CNES-CSG-...nch-guiana.php.