Kourou is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France in South America. Kourou is famous for being the location of the Guiana Space Centre, the main spaceport of France and the European Space Agency (ESA). It is an administrative district in French Guiana and the main town there.
Image: Centre Spatial Guyanais (46886212831)
Image: Kourou 2
Image: Kourou roches et tour Dreyfus
Image: Kourou beach evening
The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy, or municipios in Spain. The UK equivalent are civil parishes. Communes are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The communes are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France.
Road sign marking the end of the village of Y in the Somme department of Hauts-de-France
Mittelhausbergen in Alsace
Vacqueyras in Provence, showing double French/ Provençal name