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Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo

Lethem

Lethem is a border town of 3,000 in . It's right across the border from the Brazilian town of .
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  • Type: City with 716 residents
  • Description: Regional Capital of Alto Tcutu-Upper Essequibo, which is controlled by Guyana and claimed by Venezuela
  • Also known as: “Bon Success”, “Lethem, Guyana”, and “Lethen”
  • Neighbors:

Lethem

Latitude of center
3.375° or 3° 22′ 30″ north
Longitude of center
-59.7959° or 59° 47′ 45″ west
Population
716
Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)
IATA airport code
LTM
United Nations Location Code
GY LTM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 343756782
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3377425
Wiki­data ID
Q1203781
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Volapük—“Lethem” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Lethem”
  • Bulgarian: “Летхем”
  • Catalan: “Lethem”
  • Cebuano: “Lethem”
  • Chinese: “莱瑟姆”
  • Chinese: “萊瑟姆”
  • Czech: “Lethem”
  • Dutch: “Lethem”
  • Finnish: “Lethem”
  • French: “Lethem”
  • German: “Lethem”
  • Hebrew: “לת’ם”
  • Italian: “Lethem”
  • Japanese: “レセム”
  • Kazakh: “Летем”
  • Korean: “레템”
  • Lithuanian: “Letemas”
  • Malagasy: “Lethem (Goiana)”
  • Malagasy: “Lethem”
  • Polish: “Lethem”
  • Portuguese: “Lethem”
  • Russian: “Летем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lethem, Gvajana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lethem”
  • Sinhala: “ලෙතම්, ගයනාව”
  • Slovak: “Lethem”
  • Spanish: “Lethem”
  • Swedish: “Lethem”
  • Ukrainian: “Летем”
  • Volapük: “Lethem”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lethem”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.