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Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Banner Coat o airms
(Banner) (Coat o airms)
Motto: "One people, one nation, one destiny"
Guyana
Offeecial leid Inglis
Caipital
(an lairgest ceety)
Georgetoun
Guvrenment 
 - Preses
 - Prime meenister
Semi-presidential republic
Bharrat Jagdeo
Sam Hinds
Aurie
 - Tot
 - % watter

214,970 km²
8.4%
Population
 - 2010
 - 2002 census
 - Density
 
752,940
751,223
3.502/km²
Foondin
 - Unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick
26 Mey 1966
Siller Guyanese dollar (Rs.)
Time zone UTC -4
Naitional anthem "Dear Land of Guyana, of Rivers and Plains"
Internet TLD .gy
Cawin code 592

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 part o the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana haes been a former colony o the Breetish, Dutch an for a brief period, the Frensh. It is the anly state of the Commonwealth o Nations on mainland Sooth Americae, and is also a member o the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which has its secretariat headquarters in Guyana's caipital, Georgetown. Guyana achieved independence frae the Unitit Kinrick on 26 May 1966 an became a Republic on 23 February 1970.