Co-operative Republic o Guyana | |
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Motto: "One People, One Nation, One Destiny" | |
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Caipital and largest city | Georgetown 6°46′N 58°10′W / 6.767°N 58.167°W |
Offeecial leids | Inglis |
Recognised regional leids | 9 leids
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Vernacular leid | Guyanese Creole |
Ither leids | 6 leids
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Ethnic groups (2002) |
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Releegion | [2] |
Demonym(s) | Guyanese |
Govrenment | Unitar presidential republic |
• Preses | Irfaan Ali |
• Prime Meenister | Mark Phillips |
Legislatur | Naitional Assembly |
Formation | |
• Dutch Guiana | 1667–1814 |
• Breetish Guiana | 1814–1966 |
• Unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick becomin Commonweel Realm o Guyana | 26 Mey 1966 |
• Republic | 23 Februar 1970 |
• Current constitution | 6 October 1980 |
Aurie | |
• Total | 214,970 km2 (83,000 sq mi) (85t) |
• Water (%) | 8.4 |
Population | |
• 2016 estimate | 735,909[3] (165t) |
• 2012 census | 747,884[4] |
• Density | 3.502/km2 (9.1/sq mi) (232nt or 8t least-densely populatit in the warld) |
GDP (PPP) | 2016 estimate |
• Total | $6.093 billion[5] |
• Per capita | $7,919[5] |
GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate |
• Tot | $3.456 billion[5] |
• Per capita | $4,492[5] |
Gini (1998) | 44.5[6] medium |
HDI (2015) | ![]() medium · 127t |
Currency | Guyanese dollar (GYD) |
Time zone | UTC-4 (GYT (Guyana Time)) |
Drivin side | caur |
Cawin code | +592 |
ISO 3166 code | GY |
Internet TLD | .gy |
Guyana, offeecially kent as the Co-operative Republic o Guyana, an previously kent as Breetish Guiana, is a state on the northren coast o Sooth Americae that is culturally pairt o the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana is a umwhile colony o the Breetish, Dutch an, for a brief period, the French. It is the anely state o the Commonwalth o Naitions on mainland Sooth Americae, an is forby a member o the Caribbean Commonty (CARICOM), that haes its secretariat heidquarters in Guyana's caipital, Georgetoun. Guyana achieved unthirldom fae the Unitit Kinrick on 26 Mey 1966 an becam a republic on 23 Februar 1970.[8]