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Georgetown

Georgetown is the largest city in and capital of . Georgetown is primarily the business and governmental seat of the country but its fascinating wooden colonial buildings also provide a different experience for tourists.
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  • Type: City with 310,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Guyana
  • Also known as: “Demerara”, “Garden City of the Caribbean”, “Georgetown, British Guiana”, and “Georgetown, Guyana”

Georgetown

Latitude of center
6.8137° or 6° 48′ 50″ north
Longitude of center
-58.1624° or 58° 9′ 45″ west
Population
310,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
GEO
United Nations Location Code
GY GEO
Open­Street­Map ID
node 293789508
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3378644
Wiki­data ID
Q10717
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Georgetown” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Georgetown”
  • Afrikaans: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Afrikaans: “Georgetown”
  • Albanian: “Georgetown”
  • Albanian: “Xhorxhtaun”
  • Amharic: “ጆርጅታውን”
  • Arabic: “جورج تاون”
  • Arabic: “جورج توغن”
  • Armenian: “Ջորջթաուն”
  • Asturian: “Georgetown”
  • Azerbaijani: “Corctaun”
  • Balinese: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Balinese: “Georgetown”
  • Basque: “Georgetown”
  • Belarusian: “Джорджтаўн (Гаяна)”
  • Belarusian: “Джорджтаўн”
  • Bengali: “জর্জটাউন, গায়ানা”
  • Bengali: “জর্জটাউন”
  • Bosnian: “Georgetown”
  • Breton: “Georgetown”
  • Bulgarian: “Джорджтаун”
  • Catalan: “Georgetown”
  • Cebuano: “Georgetown”
  • Chechen: “Джорджтаун”
  • Chinese: “Georgetown”
  • Chinese: “乔治敦”
  • Chinese: “佐治城”
  • Chinese: “佐治敦”
  • Chinese: “喬治城”
  • Chinese: “喬治敦”
  • Croatian: “Georgetown”
  • Czech: “Georgetown”
  • Dagbani: “Georgetown”
  • Danish: “Georgetown”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Georgetown”
  • Dutch: “Georgetown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جورج تاون”
  • Esperanto: “Georgtaŭno”
  • Esperanto: “Georgurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝorĝtaŭno”
  • Estonian: “Georgetown”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Georgetown”
  • Finnish: “Georgetown”
  • French: “Georgetown”
  • Galician: “Georgetown, Güiana”
  • Galician: “Georgetown”
  • Georgian: “ჯორჯთაუნი”
  • Georgian: “ჯორჯტაუნი”
  • German: “Georgetown”
  • Greek: “Τζορτζτάουν”
  • Greek: “Τζώρτζταουν”
  • Gujarati: “જ્યોર્જટાઉન”
  • Haitian: “Jòjtòn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Georgetown”
  • Hausa: “Georgetown”
  • Hebrew: “ג’ורג’טאון”
  • Hebrew: “גורגטאון”
  • Hindi: “जॉर्जटाउन, गयाना”
  • Hindi: “जॉर्जटाउन”
  • Hungarian: “Georgetown”
  • Icelandic: “Georgetown”
  • Ido: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Ido: “Georgetown”
  • Indonesian: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Indonesian: “Georgetown”
  • Interlingua: “Georgetown”
  • Interlingue: “Georgetown”
  • Irish: “Georgetown”
  • Italian: “Georgetown”
  • Japanese: “ジョージタウン”
  • Kannada: “ಜಾರ್ಜ್ಟೌಣ್”
  • Kannada: “ಜಾರ್ಜ್‌ಟೌನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಜಾರ್ಜ್‍ಟೌನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Джорджтаун”
  • Kirghiz: “Жоржтаун”
  • Kongo: “Georgetown”
  • Korean: “조지타운”
  • Kotava: “Georgetown”
  • Latin: “Georgiopolis”
  • Latvian: “Džordžtauna”
  • Ligurian: “Georgetown”
  • Lithuanian: “Džordžtaunas”
  • Livvi: “Džordžtaun”
  • Lombard: “Georgetown”
  • Luxembourgish: “Georgetown”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Georgetown”
  • Macedonian: “Џорџтаун”
  • Malagasy: “Georgetown”
  • Malay: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Malay: “Georgetown”
  • Malayalam: “ജോർജ്ജ് ടൗൺ, ഗയാന”
  • Malayalam: “ജോർജ്ജ് ടൗൺ”
  • Marathi: “जॉर्जटाउन”
  • Mazanderani: “جورج تاؤن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Georgetown”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Georgetown”
  • Minangkabau: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Mingrelian: “ჯორჯტაუნი”
  • Moksha: “Джорджтаун”
  • Mongolian: “Жоржтаун”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جورج تاون”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جورجطاون”
  • Northern Sami: “Georgetown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Georgetown”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Georgetown i Guyana”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Georgetown”
  • Norwegian: “Georgetown”
  • Novial: “Georgetown”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Georgetown”
  • Oriya: “ଜର୍ଜଟାଉନ”
  • Ossetian: “Джорджтаун”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਾਰਜਟਾਊਨ, ਗੁਇਆਨਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਾਰਜਟਾਊਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Georgetown”
  • Persian: “جرج‌تاون”
  • Persian: “جورج تاون”
  • Persian: “جورج‌تاو”
  • Persian: “جورج‌تاون”
  • Piemontese: “Georgetown”
  • Polish: “Georgetown”
  • Portuguese: “Georgetown”
  • Pushto: “جورج ټاون”
  • Quechua: “Georgetown”
  • Romanian: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Romanian: “Georgetown”
  • Russian: “Джорджтаун”
  • Samogitian: “Džordžtauns”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱚᱨᱡᱽᱴᱟᱣᱩᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Georgetown”
  • Scots: “Georgetown”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Georgetown, Guiana”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Georgetown”
  • Serbian: “Џорџтаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Georgetown, Gvajana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Georgetown”
  • Shona: “Georgetown”
  • Silesian: “Georgetown”
  • Sindhi: “جارج ٽائون، گيانا”
  • Sindhi: “جارج ٽائون”
  • Sinhala: “ජෝජ්ටවුන්”
  • Sinhala: “ජෝර්ජ්ටවුන්, ගයනාව”
  • Slovak: “Georgetown”
  • Slovenian: “Georgetown, Gvajana”
  • Slovenian: “Georgetown”
  • Spanish: “Georgetown”
  • Swahili: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Swahili: “Georgetown”
  • Swedish: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Swedish: “Georgetown”
  • Tagalog: “Georgetown”
  • Tajik: “Ҷорҷтаун”
  • Tamil: “ஜார்ஜ்டவுன், கயானா”
  • Tamil: “ஜோர்ஜ்டவுண், கயானா”
  • Tamil: “ஜோர்ஜ்டவுண்”
  • Tatar: “Джорджтаун”
  • Telugu: “జార్జ్ టౌన్”
  • Telugu: “జార్జ్ పట్టణం”
  • Tetum: “Georgetown”
  • Thai: “จอร์จทาวน์”
  • Tibetan: “ཅོར་ཅི་ཐོན།”
  • Turkish: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Turkish: “Georgetown”
  • Turkmen: “Jorjtaun”
  • Udmurt: “Джорджтаун”
  • Ukrainian: “Джорджтаун”
  • Urdu: “جارج ٹاؤن، گیانا”
  • Urdu: “جارج ٹاؤن”
  • Uzbek: “Jorjtaun”
  • Uzbek: “Pinang”
  • Veps: “Džordžtaun”
  • Vietnamese: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Vietnamese: “Georgetown”
  • Volapük: “Georgetown”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Georgetown”
  • Welsh: “Georgetown, Gaiana”
  • Welsh: “Georgetown, Guyana”
  • Welsh: “Georgetown”
  • Western Frisian: “Georgetown”
  • Western Panjabi: “جارج ٹاؤن، گیانا”
  • Wu Chinese: “乔治敦（圭亚那）”
  • Wu Chinese: “乔治敦”
  • Yiddish: “דזשארדזשטאן, גייאנע”
  • Yoruba: “Georgetown, Gùyánà”
  • Yoruba: “Georgetown”
  • Yue Chinese: “佐治城”
  • Zulu: “i-Georgetown”
  • “Džordžtauns”
  • “Georgetown”
  • “Georgetown, Guyana”

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