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Guyana

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Co-operative Republic of Guyana (in Inglis)
Banner Coat o airms
(Banner) (Coat o airms)
Motto: "Ae fowk, ae naition, ae destiny"
Guyana
Offeecial leid Inglis
Caipital
(an lairgest ceety)
Georgetoun
Govrenment 
 - Preses
 - Prime meenister
Semi-presidential republic
Bharrat Jagdeo
Sam Hinds
Aurie
 - Tot
 - % watter

214,970 km²
8.4%
Population
 - 2010
 - 2002 census
 - Densitie
 
752,940
751,223
3.502/km²
Foondin
 - Unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick
26 Mey 1966
Siller Guyanese dollar (Rs.)[wrang wird or uiss o Scots]
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 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.