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  1. British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies. It was located on the northern coast of South America . Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana .

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      Political map of The Guianas. The Guianas, also spelled...

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      Map of British Guiana from 1896 Since its independence in...

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    Political map of The Guianas. The Guianas, also spelled Guyanas or Guayanas, is a region in north-eastern South America. Strictly, the term refers to the three Guyanas: Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, formerly British, Dutch and French Guyana.

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    Map of British Guiana from 1896 Since its independence in 1824, Venezuela has claimed the area of land to the west of the Essequibo River . Simón Bolívar wrote to the British government warning against the Berbice and Demerara settlers settling on land which the Venezuelans, as assumed heirs of Spanish claims on the area dating to the 16th ...

  4. 2 days ago · Guyana is a country located in the northeastern corner of South America. Indigenous peoples inhabited it prior to European settlement. Their name for the land was guiana (‘land of water’). Today Guyana reflects its British and Dutch colonial past.

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  5. The Guianas, region of South America, located on the continent’s north-central coast and covering an area of about 181,000 square miles (468,800 square km). It includes the independent nations of Guyana and Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas département of France.

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  6. 2 days ago · Guyana - Colonialism, Independence, Culture: The first human inhabitants of Guyana probably entered the highlands during the 1st millennium bce. Among the earliest settlers were groups of Arawak, Carib, and possibly Warao (Warrau).

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  8. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Media in category "Maps of British Guiana" The following 23 files are in this category, out of 23 total. Map of British Guiana (1876).jpg 3,101 × 4,298; 6.31 MB. Admiralty Chart No 99 Entrances to Rivers in Guiana, Published 1932.jpg 16,176 × 11,067; 69.52 MB.

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