10 FACT ABOUT GUYANA

1 The name Guyana means ''land of many water'' in a nature American lauguage referring of the many rivers running through the country.
2 Guyana is the only country in South America to have English as its officail lauguage.
3 Guyanese cricketer may play for the west Indies. In their great teams of the 1960s and 1970s, Rohan Kanhal and Clive Lloyd were Guyanese.
4 Guyana is the only Commonwealth state on mainland South America


















5 The kaleteur Falls in Guyana is the world's widest single-drop waterfall
6 Christopher Columbus claimed to have seen a mermaid called watermamma in Guyana's waters.
7 The largest mass suicide in modern history was in Jonestown , Guyana, in 1978 when more than 900 follwers of cult leader Jim Jones died.

8 The capital of GUyana is Georgetown Ascension Island also has a capital called Georgetown while George Town is the capital of the Cayman Islands.
9 Guyana is the only country in South America where homosexual acts are legal.
10 The original suger cane grow in the region of the Demerara River in Guyana.






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