Guyana
Guyana (officially Co-operative Republic of Guyana) is a country in South America, with its capital at Georgetown, and is home to roughly 831.1K people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is Guyanese dollar ($); people from here are called Guyanese.
- »It is the only South American country with English as its official language.
- »Kaieteur Falls drops about 226 m in a single uninterrupted plunge, some five times the height of Niagara.
Guyana touches three neighbours: Brazil to the south, Suriname to the east and Venezuela to the west. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Georgetown lies below sea level at high tide and is protected by a sea wall and a Dutch-built drainage system of canals, a legacy of the colony's early Dutch planters.
211,315 km² (81,589 sq mi), 83rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Belarus.
Population 831,087, 162nd of 198 on file. That averages 3.9 per km² (10 per sq mi).
Known as the Golden Arrowhead. The gold arrow stands for mineral wealth, green for forest and agriculture, white for rivers, red for zeal and black for endurance.