south america • GUY
Guyana
Location marker · geographic overview
5° N / 59° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Georgetown
- Population
- 831,087 2024
- Area
- 214,969 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- English
- Currency
- Guyanese dollar (GYD)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Guyana
Guyana is an English-speaking country where you can find untouched South American nature, amazing wildlife and birding experiences, rich culture and heritage, and a multiethnic Caribbean vibe.
Food & everyday culture
If there's a dominant cuisine, it is dishes influenced by the Indian subcontinent that have been localized. The most prominent of these are the curries, especially chicken, pork, beef, pumpkin and aubergine. Larger roti shops and those by the sea will have shrimp, crab and other seafood. Curries are traditionally served with roti, an Indian bread or rice.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-12. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- South America
- Calling code
- +592
- Internet domain
- .gy
- Land border codes
- BRA, SUR, VEN
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the left side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .gy. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.