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US
/ɡiˈɑnə/
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NOUN
- a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam
How To Use Guiana In A Sentence
- Name of country: conventional long form: Republic of Suriname conventional short form: Suriname local long form: Republiek Suriname local short form: Suriname former: Netherlands Guiana, Dutch Guiana The 1996 CIA Factbook
- Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 89.6% male: 92% female: 87.2% (2004 census) GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: Republic of Suriname conventional short form: Suriname local long form: Republiek Suriname local short form: Suriname former: Netherlands Guiana, Dutch Guiana Suriname
- The CSNR is known to contain more than 400 of Suriname's known bird species, including Scarlet, Red-and-Green and Blue-and-Gold Macaws, (Ara macao, Ara chloroptera, Ara ararauna); Great Tinamou (Tinamus major), Black Curassow (Crax alector) the Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola rupicola) and the Harpy Eagle. Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname
- Other rare mammals include the Guianan squirrel (Sciurus aestuans), and Paca (Agouti paca). Araucaria moist forests
- Surinameconventional long form: Republic of Suriname conventional short form: Suriname local long form: Republiek Suriname local short form: Suriname former: Netherlands Guiana, Dutch Guiana Country name
- The People's Progressive Party in Guiana, headed by Cheddi Jagan, won 20 of the 35 seats in the legislative council. E. British Caribbean Territories and Guyana (British Guiana)
- For over twenty years, the European Space Programme (ESA) has been launching satellites from a rocket base in the jungles of French Guiana on the South American coast.
- In general, Venezuela is usually divided into four major environmental regions: the coastal zone, the Andean mountain range, the llanos, and the Guiana Highlands.
- Names: conventional long form: Republic of Suriname conventional short form: Suriname local long form: Republiek Suriname local short form: Suriname former: Netherlands Guiana, Dutch Guiana The 1995 CIA World Factbook
- The adaptation in Guianadolphins is fairly new, Hanke says, and he suspects that "it is relativelyeasy to evolve, to change mechanoreceptor organs into electroreceptors".