The only South American country with English as its official language, and roughly 80 per cent rainforest.
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Guyana
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
South America
ยท South America
0Population
214.97Kkmยฒ of land
$6.61KGDP / person
GeorgetownCapital
- ISO codes
- GY ยท GUY
- Density
- 4 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Guyanese dollar (GYD)
- Dial code
- +592
- Internet domain
- .gy
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 5.1240ยฐ N, 58.9430ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Guyanese
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $5.17B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Guyana stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
165th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world population
Land area
86th
of 242 ยท 0.14% of world land
GDP per person
128th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
222nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Guyana
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 782,766 people, the 165th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 9,807 of everyone alive.
Covers 214,969 kmยฒ, making it the 86th largest country here - about 7 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 4 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Georgetown, at 6.80ยฐ N, 58.17ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 264,350.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Brazil, Suriname and Venezuela.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Guyana.
The currency is the Guyanese dollar (GYD, symbol $).
The official language is English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Guyana
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Georgetown
East Berbice-Corentyne
6.8020ยฐ N, 58.1670ยฐ W
264.35K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Guyana.