Though most South American states are independent, which European country still controls a large chunk of the South American continent?

While nearly all of Europe's claims to South America have now been rebuffed, France still claims ownership of French Guiana, making it the last colonial holdover from a largely bygone era. French Guiana is an area of 33,000 square miles of South American land - an area so big that France's longest border is with Brazil.

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