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The capital of Guyana is Georgetown.
Guyana
Guyana is a country on the northeastern coast of South America. Bordered by Surinam, Brazil and Venezuela, Guyana covers an area of about 83,000 square miles. Its capital and largest city is Georgetown.
Most of Guyana's 700,000 people are the descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought from their countries to work on the sugar plantations. Only about one out of every 20 people is descended from the Indian peoples who originally inhabited the area.
Dense forests cover much of Guyana. More than nine-tenths of the people, however, live on the narrow coastal strip where sugarcane is grown. Sugarcane is Guyana's most valuable crop. The country is also a major producer of bauxite (aluminum ore).
The country was a British colony called British Guiana until 1966. It then became independent, and the government changed the country's name to Guyana.
