Guyana
Guyana Guyana, Guyana, Guyana or formally the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and formerly British Guiana / is a sovereign country on the northern coast of South America but culturally part of the English-speaking Caribbean. Guyana was a Dutch and British colony The area known as "Guyana" consists of a large area of land to the north of the Amazon River and east of the Orinoco River and is known as "the land of many waters." Historic Guyana is comprised of three Dutch colonies: Issykebo, Demerara and Perpis. Modern Guyana is bordered to the east by Suriname, to the south and southwest by Brazil, to the west by Venezuela, and to the north by the Atlantic Ocean With an area of 215,000 km2, it is thus the third smallest independent third country on the mainland of South America (after Uruguay and Suriname). Its population is around 770,000 (2002 data), of which the majority are East Indians (43.5%) and of African descent (30.2% ...