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.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »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.
> BORDERS_
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.
> THE CAPITAL_
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.
> SCALE_
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).
> THE FLAG_
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.