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 Guyana,
country on the northern coast of South America, west of Suriname and east
of Venezuela. Its area is 215,000 sq km (83,000 sq mi). Georgetown is the
capital and principal port.
Guyana
has a population of 711,759 (1997 estimate). About 50 percent of the people
are of East Indian descent, and about 30 percent are of black African descent.
Guyana,
a country of exceptional natural beauty, is a splendid combination of the
Caribbean and
South America, with fascinating
touches of a sometimes turbulent past. Perched on the north-east corner
of the South American continent, Guyana stretches 450 miles from its long
Atlantic coastline into dense equatorial forest and the broad savannah
of the Rupununi. |
