Monday, August 22, 2022

Guyana


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Let's learn a little about the country of Guyana!

This country is in South America, and borders Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname and the Atlantic Ocean.
It is about 215,000 square kilometers, and about 800,000 people live there.
The people in this country speak either English or Guaynese Creole.


(from: wikipedia - guyana)

The flag of Guyana is green with red and yellow triangles on it.
There is a black line on the red triangle and a white line on the yellow triangle.
Green is for the forests, red is for the good energy, yellow is for minerals like gold, black is for endurance and white is for the water.


(from: wikipedia - flag of guyana)

To eat in this country you might have dal bhat, which is rice with some types of stews to mix in with it like lentils.


(from: wikipedia - dal bhat)

Visiting this country you might go see Kaieteur Falls, which is the largest single drop waterfall in the world.


(from: wikipedia - kaieteur falls)

There are two mountain groups next to each other called Mount Roraima and Kukenan Tepui.
Long ago when the famous author Arthur Conan Doyle visited there, he wrote a story about a lost world of dinosaurs living in between them.

(from: wikipedia - mount roraima)

(from: wikipedia - Kukenán-tepui)

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