Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Georgetown
- Region
- Americas, South America
- Population
- 835,986 (2025)
- Area
- 214,970 km²
- Currency
- Guyanese dollar (GYD)
- Languages
- English
- Calling code
- +592
- Internet domain
- .gy
- ISO codes
- GY, GUY, 328
- Time zone
- UTC-4:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ####### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Guyana covers about 214,970 square kilometres. By area it ranks 86th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Uganda and a little larger than Belarus. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: Brazil, Suriname, Venezuela. Its centre lies at about 5° north, 59° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 835,986 people live in Guyana (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 165th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 3.9 people to each square kilometre. About 26 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 70 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English. A person from Guyana is called Guyanese.
Money and economy
The currency is the Guyanese dollar (code GYD, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 27.1 billion (2025), which is about US$ 32,414 for each person (2025).
Time
Guyana uses one time zone, UTC-4:00 (America/Guyana). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Georgetown | 235,017 |
| Linden | 44,690 |
| New Amsterdam | 35,039 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South America
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Paraguay. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.