South America

Guyana

Guyana is an English-speaking country where you can find untouched nature, amazing wildlife and birding experiences, rich culture and heritage, and a multiethnic Caribbean vibe.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Georgetown and Linden.

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is the largest city in and capital of Guyana. 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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is the second largest city in Guyana after , and capital of the region, located at, altitude 48 m. It was declared a town in 1970, and includes the communities of MacKenzie, Christianburg, and Wismar.

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is one of Guyana's largest towns on the eastern end of the Coastal Plain. It had a population of 17,329 in 2012.

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Explore places such as Lethem and Bartica.

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is a border town of 3,000 in Guyana. It's right across the border from the Brazilian town of .

is a river port town of some 8,000, known as Guyana's Gateway to the Interior, located just above the confluence of the Cuyuni and Mazaruni Rivers to the south. Its name comes from an indigenous word for "red earth."…

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is the regional administrative centre near the Venezuelan border in Guyana, a very small town of only about 800 inhabitants.

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is in the of Guyana. The park offers a genuine Amazonian experience for lovers of the jungle.

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is a town in Potaro-siparuni in the . This is an extremely remote area. Calling it a place to "get away" would be a great understatement — it is more like stepping back in time and witnessing subsistence living.

is a small township in Guyana, located in the Region No.2, which is part of the Essequibo County. The government of is managed by the Charity/Urasara Neighbourhood Democratic Council.

Guyana

Latitude of center
5° north
Longitude of center
-59° or 59° west
Population
753,000
Area
214,970 km² (83,000 miles²)
Elevation
157 metres (515 feet)
Capital
Georgetown
Currency
Dollar (GYD)
Phone code
.gy
Internet domain
592
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311328
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3378535
Wiki­data ID
Q734
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Guyana” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Гаиана”
  • Abkhazian: “Гаианатәи Акооперативтә Республика”
  • Achinese: “Guyana”
  • Adyghe: “Гайанэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Guyana”
  • Akan: “Gayana”
  • Albanian: “Guajana”
  • Albanian: “Guajanë”
  • Albanian: “Guiana”
  • Amharic: “ጉያና”
  • Amharic: “ጋያና”
  • Amis: “Guyana”
  • Angika: “गुयाना”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية التعاونية غويانا”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية التعاونية غيانا”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية غيانا التعاونية”
  • Arabic: “غوايانا”
  • Arabic: “غويانا”
  • Arabic: “غيانا”
  • Aragonese: “Guyana”
  • Armenian: “Գայանա”
  • Arpitan: “Guyana”
  • Assamese: “গায়ানা”
  • Asturian: “Guyana”
  • Atayal: “Guyana”
  • Awadhi: “गयाना”
  • Aymara: “Wayana”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qayana”
  • Balinese: “Guyana”
  • Bambara: “Gwiyana”
  • Bashkir: “Гайана”
  • Basque: “Guiana”
  • Basque: “Guyana”
  • Batak Toba: “Guyana”
  • Bavarian: “Guyana”
  • Belarusian: “Гаяна”
  • Bengali: “গায়ানা”
  • Bengali: “গিয়ানা”
  • Bengali: “গুইয়ানা”
  • Betawi: “Guyana”
  • Bhojpuri: “गयाना”
  • Bishnupriya: “গায়েনা”
  • Bislama: “Guyana”
  • Bosnian: “Gvajana”
  • Breton: “Guyana”
  • Breton: “Gwiana”
  • Breton: “Republik Kevelourel Guyana”
  • Breton: “Republik Kevelourel Gwiana”
  • Bulgarian: “Гаяна”
  • Bulgarian: “Гвиана”
  • Burmese: “ဂိုင်ယာနာ”
  • Burmese: “ဂိုင်ယာနာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Guyana”
  • Catalan: “República cooperativa de Guyana”
  • Cebuano: “Guyana”
  • Central Bikol: “Guyana”
  • Central Kurdish: “گویانا”
  • Chavacano: “Guyana”
  • Chechen: “Гайана”
  • Cheyenne: “Guyana”
  • Chinese: “Guyana”
  • Chinese: “圭亚那 / 蓋亞那 / 圭亞那”
  • Chinese: “圭亚那”
  • Chinese: “圭亚那合作共和国”
  • Chinese: “圭亞那”
  • Chinese: “圭雅那”
  • Chinese: “蓋亞那”
  • Chuvash: “Гайана”
  • Cornish: “Gwayana”
  • Cornish: “Gyana”
  • Corsican: “Guiana”
  • Corsican: “Guyana”
  • Corsican: “Republica Cooperativa di Guiana”
  • Corsican: “Republica Cooperativa di Guyana”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gayana”
  • Croatian: “Gvajana”
  • Czech: “Guyana”
  • Dagbani: “Guyana”
  • Danish: “Guyana”
  • Dhivehi: “ގުޔާނާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Guyana”
  • Dotyali: “गुयना”
  • Dotyali: “गुयाना”
  • Dutch: “Coöperatieve Republiek Guyana”
  • Dutch: “GUY”
  • Dutch: “Guyana”
  • Dutch: “GY”
  • Dzongkha: “གྷ་ཡ་ན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гайана”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جايانا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جويانا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيانا”
  • Esperanto: “Gujano”
  • Esperanto: “Koopera Respubliko Gujano”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Gujano”
  • Estonian: “Guyana Kooperatiivne Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Guyana Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Guyana”
  • Ewe: “Guyana”
  • Ewe: “Guyanadu”
  • Extremaduran: “Guyana”
  • Faroese: “Gujana”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Guyana”
  • Finnish: “Guyana”
  • Finnish: “Guyanan kooperatiivinen tasavalta”
  • Finnish: “Guyanan tasavalta”
  • French: “Guyana”
  • French: “Guyane britannique”
  • French: “GY”
  • French: “République coopérative du Guyana”
  • Fulah: “Giyaan”
  • Fulah: “Guyaana”
  • Gagauz: “Gayana”
  • Galician: “Güiana”
  • Galician: “República Cooperativa de Güiana”
  • Ganda: “Gayana”
  • Georgian: “გაიანა”
  • German: “Guyana”
  • German: “Kooperative Republik Guyana”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Guyana”
  • Gilaki: “گۊیان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Guyana”
  • Goan Konkani: “गयाना”
  • Gothic: “𐌵𐌰𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌰”
  • Greek: “Γουιάνα”
  • Greek: “Συνεργατική Δημοκρατία της Γουιάνας”
  • Guarani: “Gujána”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Gwiyannan”
  • Gujarati: “ગયાના”
  • Gujarati: “ગિયાના”
  • Gujarati: “ગુયાના”
  • Haitian: “Giyàn”
  • Haitian: “Giyana”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Guyana”
  • Hausa: “Guyana”
  • Hawaiian: “Kaiana”
  • Hawaiian: “Kiana”
  • Hebrew: “גיאנה”
  • Hindi: “गयाना”
  • Hindi: “गुयाना”
  • Hungarian: “Brit Guyana”
  • Hungarian: “Guyana”
  • Hungarian: “Guyanai Szövetkezeti Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Gvæjana”
  • Ido: “Guyana”
  • Igbo: “Guyana”
  • Iloko: “Guyana”
  • Inari Sami: “Guyana kooperatiivlâš täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Guyana täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Guyana”
  • Indonesian: “Guyana”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Guyana”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Kooperatif Guyana”
  • Interlingua: “Guyana”
  • Interlingue: “Guyana”
  • Irish: “an Ghuáin”
  • Irish: “An Ghuáin”
  • Italian: “Guyana”
  • Italian: “Repubblica Cooperativa di Guyana”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Gayana”
  • Japanese: “ガイアナ”
  • Japanese: “ガイアナ共和国”
  • Japanese: “ガイアナ協同共和国”
  • Javanese: “Guyana”
  • Kabyle: “Guyana”
  • Kalaallisut: “Guyana”
  • Kalmyk: “Ниитә Гайанмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಗಯಾನ”
  • Kannada: “ಗಯಾನಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gayana”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гайана”
  • Kashmiri: “گُیانا”
  • Kazakh: “Гайана”
  • Khmer: “ហ្គីយ៉ាន”
  • Kikuyu: “Guyana”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Giyana”
  • Kirghiz: “Гайана”
  • Kongo: “Guyana”
  • Korean: “가이아나”
  • Kurdish: “Guyana”
  • Ladin: “Guyana”
  • Ladino: “Guyana”
  • Lao: “ກາຍຢານາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດກາຍອານາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດກຸຍຢານ”
  • Latgalian: “Gajana”
  • Latin: “Guiana”
  • Latvian: “Gajāna”
  • Ligurian: “Guyana”
  • Limburgan: “Guyana”
  • Lingala: “Giyane”
  • Lingala: “Gwiana”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Guiana”
  • Literary Chinese: “圭亞那”
  • Lithuanian: “Gajana”
  • Lithuanian: “Gajanos Kooperacinė Respublika”
  • Lithuanian: “Gajanos Respublika”
  • Livvi: “Gaijana”
  • Lojban: “gudjanas”
  • Lombard: “Gujana”
  • Low German: “Guyana”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Guyana”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Ngiyane”
  • Lule Sami: “Gujádna”
  • Lule Sami: “Guyánna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guyana”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Gaiana”
  • Macedonian: “Гвајана”
  • Madurese: “Guyana”
  • Malagasy: “Goiana”
  • Malagasy: “Guyana”
  • Malay: “Guyana”
  • Malayalam: “ഗയാന”
  • Maltese: “Gujana”
  • Maltese: “Guyana”
  • Maltese: “il-Guyana”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Kooperattiva tal-Guyana”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒꯨꯌꯥꯅꯥ”
  • Manx: “Geeaaney”
  • Manx: “Gheeaaney”
  • Maori: “Kaiana”
  • Marathi: “गयाना”
  • Mazanderani: “گایان”
  • Mazanderani: “گویان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Guyana”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guyana”
  • Minangkabau: “Guyana”
  • Mingrelian: “გაიანა”
  • Moksha: “Гайана”
  • Moksha: “Гаяна”
  • Mongolian: “Гайана”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڭويانا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ݣويانا”
  • Nauru: “Guyana”
  • Navajo: “Eʼeʼaahjí Tółáníinii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “गयाना”
  • Nepali: “गुयना”
  • Nepali: “गुयाना”
  • North Ndebele: “Guyana”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guyaana”
  • Northern Sami: “Guyana dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Guyana kooperatiiva dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Guyana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den kooperative republikk Guyana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guyana”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guyana”
  • Norwegian: “Guyana”
  • Novial: “Guyana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guyana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica cooporativa de Guyana”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guyana”
  • Oriya: “ଗାଇଓନା”
  • Oriya: “ଗାୟନା”
  • Oriya: “ଗୁଇନା”
  • Oromo: “Gayaanaa”
  • Ossetian: “Гайанæ”
  • Pali: “गयाना”
  • Pampanga: “Guyana”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਇਆਨਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਯਾਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Guyana”
  • Persian: “گویان”
  • Piemontese: “Gujan-a”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Gwiiana”
  • Polish: “Gujana”
  • Portuguese: “Guiana”
  • Portuguese: “GUY”
  • Portuguese: “gy”
  • Portuguese: “República Cooperativa da Guiana”
  • Portuguese: “República da Guiana”
  • Pushto: “ګويانا”
  • Pushto: “ګيانا”
  • Pushto: “ګیانا”
  • Quechua: “Guyana”
  • Quechua: “Wayana”
  • Rakhine: “ဂိုင်ယာနာသမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Guiana”
  • Romanian: “Guyana”
  • Romansh: “Guyana”
  • Rundi: “Guyane”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гайана”
  • Russian: “Гайана”
  • Russian: “Кооперативная Республика Гайана”
  • Sakizaya: “Guyana”
  • Samoan: “Guyana”
  • Samogitian: “Gajana”
  • Sango: “Gayâna”
  • Sanskrit: “गयाना”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱟᱭᱟᱱᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Guyana”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Guyana”
  • Scots: “Co-operative Republic o Guyana”
  • Scots: “Guyana”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guiana”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guidheàna”
  • Serbian: “Gvajana”
  • Serbian: “Гвајана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gvajana”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵၢႆႇယႃးၼႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Guyana”
  • Sicilian: “Cuiana”
  • Sicilian: “Cujana”
  • Sicilian: “Guiana”
  • Sicilian: “Gujana”
  • Silesian: “Gujana”
  • Sindhi: “گيانا”
  • Sinhala: “ගයනාව”
  • Sinhala: “ගයානා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Guyana kooperatiivlaž tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Guyana tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Guyana”
  • Slovak: “Guayana”
  • Slovak: “Guyana”
  • Slovak: “Guyanská kooperatívna republika”
  • Slovenian: “Gvajana”
  • Somali: “Guyana”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قویان”
  • Spanish: “Guyana”
  • Spanish: “Republica Cooperativa de Guyana”
  • Spanish: “República Cooperativa de Guyana”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Kayanakondre”
  • Sundanese: “Guyana”
  • Swahili: “Guyana”
  • Swedish: “Guyana”
  • Swedish: “Kooperativa republiken Guyana”
  • Swiss German: “Guyana”
  • Tagalog: “Guyana”
  • Tajik: “Гайана”
  • Tamil: “கயானா”
  • Taroko: “Guyana”
  • Tatar: “Гайана”
  • Telugu: “గయానా”
  • Tetum: “Giana”
  • Thai: “กายอานา”
  • Thai: “กายานา”
  • Thai: “ประเทศกายอานา”
  • Tibetan: “གྷུ་ཡཱ་ན།”
  • Tibetan: “གུ་ཡ་ན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ጉያና”
  • Tok Pisin: “Giana”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kuiana”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Guyana”
  • Tumbuka: “Guyana”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ڨيانا”
  • Turkish: “Guyana”
  • Turkmen: “Gaýana”
  • Udmurt: “Гайана”
  • Uighur: “گايانا”
  • Uighur: “گۋىئانا”
  • Uighur: “گىۋىيانا”
  • Ukrainian: “Co-operative Republic of Guyana”
  • Ukrainian: “Гайана”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґайана”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаяна”
  • Ukrainian: “Кооперативна Республіка Гайана”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Guyana”
  • Urdu: “گیانا”
  • Uzbek: “Gayana”
  • Venetian: “Guiana”
  • Venetian: “Guyana”
  • Veps: “Gajan”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Hợp tác Guyana”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Hợp tác Guyana”
  • Vietnamese: “Guy-a-na”
  • Vietnamese: “Guyana”
  • Vlaams: “Guyana”
  • Vlax Romani: “Guyana”
  • Volapük: “Gvayän”
  • Võro: “Guyana”
  • Walloon: “Gwiyane”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guyana”
  • Welsh: “Gaiana”
  • Welsh: “Guyana”
  • Western Armenian: “Կայանա”
  • Western Frisian: “Gujana”
  • Western Frisian: “Guyana”
  • Western Mari: “Гайана”
  • Western Panjabi: “گویانا”
  • Western Panjabi: “گیانا”
  • Western Panjabi: “گیاںا”
  • Wolof: “Giyaan”
  • Wolof: “Guyaana”
  • Wu Chinese: “圭亚那”
  • Yakut: “Гайана”
  • Yiddish: “גויאנע”
  • Yiddish: “גויאַנע”
  • Yiddish: “גייאנע”
  • Yoruba: “Guyana”
  • Yoruba: “Gùyánà”
  • Yue Chinese: “圭亞那”
  • Zeeuws: “Huyana”
  • Zhuang: “Gveihyanaz”
  • Zulu: “i-Guyana”
  • “Gaiana”
  • “Gajana”
  • “GUY”
  • “Guyana”
  • “GY”
  • “ma Kijana”
  • “गयाना”

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