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Guyana (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 05 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 5.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 059 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -59.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area was inhabited by Amerindians of whom little is known; sighted by Columbus 1498; settled by Dutch early 17th century; occupied by British during Napoleonic Wars; many Africans came as slaves; East Indians and Chinese came as indentured servants 19th century; official language is English, though Hindi, Urdu, and local dialects are also spoken. |
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| Guyana (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Guyana (Somali)
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| Guyana (Tagalog)
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| Guyana (Nauruan)
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| Guyana (Malagasy)
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| Guyana (Vietnamese)
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| Guyana (Indonesian)
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| Guyana (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Guyana (Danish)
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| Guyana (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Guyana (Finnish)
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| Guyana (Swedish)
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| Guyana (Romanian)
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| Guyana (Slovak)
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| Guyana (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Guyana (Catalan)
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| Guyana (Basque)
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| Guyana (Aragonese)
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| Guyana (Welsh)
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| Guyana (Hausa)
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| Guyana (German)
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| Guyana (Low German)
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| Guyana (Breton)
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| Guyana (Czech)
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| Guyana (Dutch)
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| Guyana (Afrikaans)
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| Guyana (French-P,U,N)
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| Guyana (Italian)
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| Guyana (Estonian)
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| Guyana (Greenlandic)
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| Guyana (Turkish)
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| Guyana (Occitan)
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| Guyana (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Guyana (Romansh)
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| Guyana (Kikuyu)
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| Guyana (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Guyana (North Ndebele)
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| Guyana (Norwegian)
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| Guyana (Pampanga)
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| Guyana (Northern Sami)
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| Guyana (Shona)
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| Guyana (Swahili (generic))
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| Guyana (Ido)
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| Co-operative Republic of Guyana (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Cooperative Republic of Guyana (C,V,English,U,N)
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| République du Guyana (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Repóblica de Guyana (C,O,Spanish,U)
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| Guiana (C,O,Latin)
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............ | Portuguese transliteration of indigenous peoples' name for the place, meaning "land of the waters" |
| Guiana (Portuguese)
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| Guiana (Romanian)
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| Guiana (Basque)
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| Guiana (Albanian)
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| Guyane (C,O,Rundi)
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| Гайана (C,O,Russian-P,U)
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| Гайана (Ukrainian)
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| Республика Гайана (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 圭亚那 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 圭亚那共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| غ اَنا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً غ اَنا (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| GUY (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GY (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO328 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Guyanese (C,O,English,U,A)
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| An Ghuáin (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Gajāna (C,U,Latvian)
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| Gajana (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Gayâna (C,U,Sangho)
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| Gayana (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gayana (Akan)
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| Giana (C,U,Tetum)
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| Giyaan (C,U,Fulah)
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| Giyàn (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Giyane (C,U,Lingala)
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| Guajana (C,U,Albanian)
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| Guayana (C,U,Slovak)
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| Güiana (C,U,Galician)
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| Güiana - Guyana (C,U,Galician)
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| Gujana (C,U,Maltese)
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| Gujana (Polish)
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| Gujana (Faroese)
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| Gujano (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Guy-a-na (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Guyanadu (C,U,Ewe)
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| Guyane britannique (C,U,French)
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| Gvæjana (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Gvajana (C,U,Croatian)
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| Gvajana (Bosnian)
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| Gvajana (Slovene)
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| Gvayän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Gwayana (C,U,Cornish)
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| Gwiyana (C,U,Bambara)
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| i-Guyana (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kuiana (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Ngiyane (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Guyana (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Quyana (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Wayana (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Ґайана (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Гвајана (C,U,Serbian)
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| Гвајана (Macedonian)
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| กายานา (C,U,Thai)
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| ກູຢານາ (C,U,Lao)
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| ประเทศกายอานา (C,U,Thai)
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| گۋىئانا (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ហ្គីយ៉ាណា (C,U,Khmer)
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| Γουιάνα (C,U,Greek)
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| Գայանա (C,U,Armenian)
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| Гвиана (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| গিয়ানা (C,U,Bengali)
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| غوايانا (C,U,Arabic)
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| गुयाना (C,U,Hindi)
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| गुयाना (Nepali)
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| ガイアナ (C,U,Japanese)
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| 가이아나 (C,U,Korean)
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| ጉያና (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ጉያና (Amharic)
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| גיאנה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| גויאנע (C,U,Yiddish)
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| غيانا (C,U,Arabic)
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| கயானா (C,U,Tamil)
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| ګيانا (C,U,Pashto)
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| გაიანა (C,U,Georgian)
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| گویان (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| گیانا (C,U,Urdu)
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| गयाना (C,U,Marathi)
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| ଗୁଇନା (C,U,Odia)
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| ಗಯಾನಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| গিয়ানা (C,U,Bengali)
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| གྷུ་ཡཱ་ན། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| Гаяна (C,U,Belarusian)
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| گویانا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| గయానా (C,U,Telugu)
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| กายอานา (C,U,Thai)
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| ഗയാന (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ગયાના (C,U,Gujarati)
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| British Guiana (H,V)
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............ | 1831-1966 |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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parliamentary home rule established 1953; gained independence 1966 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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initially within the Commonwealth, in 1970 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| colony (H) |
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British, 1831-1966 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Georgetown .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, South America, Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica) [7005275] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1966 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1966 |
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