Guyana

Statistics

Population: 702,100 (July 2003) Literacy: 98.8% (those who attended school after age 15) Religions: Christian 50%, Hindu 35%, Muslim 10%, other 5% Languages: English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi, Urdu

The Co-operative Republic of Guyana is a nation along the northern coastline of South America and part of Caribbean South America. It constitutes the western part of the wider region of Guiana (an Amerindian word meaning Land of Many Waters), and is bordered to the east by Suriname, to the south by Brazil, to the west by Venezuela and to the north by the Atlantic Ocean.