Map of Guyana

Guyana is located in South America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 5.0° N, 59.0° W. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Brazil, Suriname and Venezuela — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Guyana is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Guyana shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Guyana covers about 214,969 km² (83,000 sq mi). That makes it the 83rd-largest country in the world by area and the 10th-largest in South America, larger by area than 2 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 772,975, the 163rd-largest in the world and the 11th-largest in South America, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Guyana has an average population density of about 4 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 11th by population and 10th by area.

The seat of government is Georgetown, and the official currency is the Guyanese dollar (GYD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC-04:00.

Guyana carries the ISO country codes GY and GUY, dials on the international calling code +592 and uses the .gy internet domain.

Guyana shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Brazil (capital Brasília, about 213,421,037 people), Venezuela (capital Caracas, about 28,517,000 people) and Suriname (capital Paramaribo, about 616,500 people).

By area, Guyana is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 5.0° N, 59.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Guyana within South America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Georgetown. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Guyana lies about 555 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Guyana keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Guyanese dollar (GYD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +592 and websites commonly use the .gy internet domain.

In short, Guyana is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Georgetown. Guyana has a population of about 772,975 and covers around 214,969 km² (83,000 sq mi), ranking it 163rd in the world by population and 83rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Guyana.

The flag of Guyana has a green field with two isosceles triangles which share a common base on the hoist end. The smaller black-edged red triangle spanning half the width of the field is superimposed on the larger white-edged yellow triangle which spans the full width of the field.

The flag of Guyana is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.