Guyana

• Guyana is a country on the northern mainland of South America.

• Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state on mainland South America
after Uruguay and Suriname.
• Government : Unitary
presidential constitutional
• Population : 777,859
• Capital : Georgetown
• Independence day : 26 May
• Currency : Guyanes dollar
• President : David A. Granger
• Area : 214,969 km2
 Language
• English is the official language of Guyana, which is the only South American
country with English as the official language.

• A number of Amerindian languages are also spoken by a minority of the

population. These include Cariban languages such as Macushi, Akawaio and
Wai-Wai; and Arawakan languages such as Arawak (or Lokono) and
Wapishana.
 Religions
• Christianity and Hinduism are the
dominant religions in Guyana.
• According to the 2012 census,
approximately 63 percent of the population
is Christian.

• Approximately 25 percent are Hindu,

7 percent are Muslim (mostly Sunni with
Shia and Ahmadiyya minorities), and
1 percent practice other beliefs, including
the Rastafari movement, Buddhism, and
the Baha'i Faith. More than 3 percent of
the population do not profess any religion.
 Culture and tradition
• Guyanese culture reflects the influence of Indian,
African, Amerindian, British, Portuguese, Chinese, Creole, Latin
American, and Dutch cultures.

• Football and cricket are the main outdoor sports enjoyed by

the locals, while dominoes is popular as an indoor game. Minor
sports like table tennis, lawn tennis, netball, squash, boxing
and rounders are widely played.

• The majority of the people in Guyana have adopted

the western civilization code of dress including jeans,
sneakers and T-shirts. The dress code in Guyana is
mainly influenced by climate, type of job, daily needs, religious
beliefs and even tastes.
 Trade
• Guyana's biggest exports are sugar (25%) and gold (24%). The mining industry
also produces a large amount of bauxite/alumina exports (16%). Foodstuffs
account for substantial amounts of commodity export percentages, including
rice (11%), shrimp (2.3%), and rum (2.0%).
In 1992 Guyana's imports were distributed among the following categories:
• Consumer goods 8.0%
• Food 6.2%
• Fuels 10.7%
• Industrial supplies 22.9%
• Machinery 37.0%
• Transportation 14.9%
• Other 0.2%
 Agriculture
• Agriculture provides the raw materials for Guyana's agro-based industries.
The major crops include rice, sugar, coffee, cocoa, coconuts, edible oils,
copra, fruit, vegetables, and tobacco. Livestock include cattle, sheep, pigs,
goats, and chickens.

• Most agricultural output is derived

from a thin belt of land close to the
sea, most of which is below sea level.
 Venezuela
• Venezuela is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a
continental landmass and many small islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
• Government : Federal
presidential republic
• Population : 28,887,118
• Capital : Caracas
• Currency : Petro,
Venezuelan bolivar.
• Independence day : 5July
• President : Nicolas Maduro
• Area : 916,445 km2
 Language
• About 40 languages are spoken in Venezuela. However, Spanish, the country's
official language, is the most common.
• The most widely spoken indigenous languages are Wayuu, Warao, Piaroa,
Yanomami, Kahlihna, Manduhuaca, Panaré, Pemón, Guahibo and Nhengtu.
• Venezuelans often speak less formally than people in most other Spanish-
speaking countries.
 Religions
• Christianity is the largest religion in Venezuela,
with Roman Catholicism having
the most adherents.

• According to a 2011 poll, 88 percent

of the population is Christian, primarily
Roman Catholic (71%), and the
remaining 17 percent Protestant,
primarily Evangelicals. The Venezuelans
without religion are 8%
(atheist 2% and agnostic or
indifferent 6%), almost 3% of the
population follow other
religion (1% of them are of santeria).
 Culture and tradition
• The cultures of Venezuela are diverse and
complex, influenced by the many different
people who have made Venezuela their home.

• Venezuela has distinctive and original

art, literature and music.

• Baseball is Venezuela's most popular sport,

although football is gaining influence.

• Venezuela is well known for its successes

in beauty pageants.
 Trade
• Venezuela is currently our 33rd largest goods trading partner with $19.3 billion
in total goods trade during 2018. Goods exports totaled $6.1 billion; goods
imports totaled $13.2 billion. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Venezuela was
$7.1 billion in 2018.
• The top exports of Venezuela are
Crude Petroleum, Refined Petroleum,
Acyclic Alcohols, Iron Reductions
and Iron Ore, using the 1992 revision
of the HS classification.
• Its top imports are Refined
Petroleum, Corn,
Wheat, Ethers and Rice.
 Agriculture
• Agriculture plays a much smaller role in Venezuela’s economy than in the
economies of other South American countries.
• The principal crops include sugarcane; fruits such as bananas, plantains, and
oranges; maize; rice; and cassava.
• Livestock raising is carried on
chiefly on the Llanos and east of Lake
Maracaibo.