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  2. Guyana - Wikipedia

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    The large majority (about 90%) of Guyana's 744,000 people live along a narrow coastal strip that ranges from a width of 16 to 64 km (10 to 40 mi) inland and makes up approximately 10% of the nation's total land area. [54] Guyana's population is racially and ethnically heterogeneous, with ethnic groups originating from India, Africa, Europe, and ...

  3. Dear Land of Guyana, of Rivers and Plains - Wikipedia

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    Great land of Guyana, diverse though our strains, We're born of their sacrifice, heirs of their pains, And ours is the glory their eyes did not see, One land of six peoples, united and free. Dear land of Guyana, to you will we give, Our homage, our service, each day that we live; God guard you, great Mother, and make us to be

  4. Geography of Guyana - Wikipedia

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    Guyana lies south of the path of Caribbean hurricanes and none is known to have hit the country. [ 1 ] Temperatures in Georgetown are quite constant, with an average high of 32 °C (89.6 °F) and an average low of 24 °C (75.2 °F) in the hottest month (July), and an average range of 29 to 23 °C (84.2 to 73.4 °F) in February, the coolest ...

  5. The Guianas - Wikipedia

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    Before the arrival of European colonials, the Guianas were populated by scattered bands of native Arawak people. The native tribes of the Northern amazon forests are most closely related to the natives of the Caribbean; most evidence suggests that the Arawaks immigrated from the Orinoco and Essequibo River Basins in Venezuela and Guiana into the northern islands, and were then supplanted by ...

  6. History of Guyana - Wikipedia

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    The word, which means "land of waters", is appropriate considering the area's multitude of rivers and streams. [1] [2] Historians speculate that the Arawaks and Caribs originated in the South American hinterland and migrated northward, first to the present-day Guianas and then to the Caribbean islands. The Arawak, mainly cultivators, hunters ...

  7. British Guiana - Wikipedia

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    British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies.It was located on the northern coast of South America.Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana.

  8. Dutch colonisation of the Guianas - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch began their colonisation of the Guianas, the coastal region between the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in South America, in the late 16th century.The Dutch originally claimed all of Guiana (also called De wilde kust, the "Wild Coast") but—following attempts to sell it first to Bavaria and then to Hanau and the loss of sections to Portugal, Britain, and France—the section actually ...

  9. Portal:Guyana - Wikipedia

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    With a land area of 214,969 km 2 (83,000 sq mi), Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state by area in mainland South America after Uruguay and Suriname, and is the second-least populous sovereign state in South America after Suriname; it is also one of the least densely populated countries on Earth.