Guyana map quiz
Explore the cities of Guyana!
Quizzes in this pack
Guyana: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- Capital city on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the Demerara River, known for its wooden colonial architecture, St. George's Cathedral, one of the world's tallest wooden buildings, and the Stabroek Market
- Answer: Georgetown
- Second-largest town on the Demerara River about 100 km south of the capital, a former bauxite mining centre with distinctive red-stained earth and lakes
- Answer: Linden
- Third-largest town at the confluence of the Berbice and Canje rivers on the eastern coast, founded by the Dutch, with Fort Nassau ruins and a mix of colonial heritage buildings
- Answer: New Amsterdam
- River town at the junction of the Essequibo, Mazaruni, and Cuyuni rivers, a gateway to gold mining regions and the interior rainforest, often called the gateway to the interior
- Answer: Bartica
- Remote border town on the Takutu River opposite the Brazilian city of Bonfim, gateway to the Rupununi savannas and the Kanuku Mountains, accessible mainly by air or rough road
- Answer: Lethem
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Georgetown
Mouth of the Demerara, Guyana
Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, lies below sea level at high tide and is protected by a sea wall first built by the Dutch. Its St. George's Cathedral is one of the tallest wooden churches in the world. Guyana is the only country in South America where English is the official language.
- Did you know?
- Kaieteur Falls in Guyana drop 226 metres in a single plunge
New Amsterdam
Mouth of the Berbice River
New Amsterdam is a town at the mouth of the Berbice River, founded by the Dutch in the late 1700s. It has old wooden colonial buildings and a long floating bridge across the river.
- Known for
- The Dutch past, wooden buildings, the Berbice
Anna Regina
Essequibo coast
Anna Regina is a town on the Essequibo coast of Guyana, in a farming area of rice fields criss-crossed by drainage canals. It is said to be named after Anna and Regina, the two daughters of a Dutch plantation owner.
- Known for
- Rice, canals, the two daughters
Kaieteur Falls
Kaieteur National Park
Kaieteur Falls on the Potaro River, in the rainforest of Guyana, drops 226 metres in a single plunge, about four times the height of Niagara Falls. So much water goes over it that it is among the most powerful single-drop waterfalls in the world.
- Drop
- 226 m
- Did you know?
- Tiny golden frogs live in the giant bromeliads by the falls
Iwokrama Forest
Potaro-Siparuni
The Iwokrama Forest in the heart of Guyana was set aside by the country in 1989 to test how rainforest can be used without being destroyed. Jaguars, giant otters and harpy eagles live here, and a canopy walkway about 30 metres up lets visitors walk among the treetops.
- Area
- About 3,700 km²
- Height
- Walkway about 30 m up
Mount Roraima
Pakaraima Mountains
Mount Roraima is a tepui, a table mountain with sheer cliffs about 400 metres high, standing where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet. Its flat top is almost always in cloud and rain, and plants grow there that are found nowhere else, among them carnivorous pitcher plants.
- Height
- 2,810 m
- Did you know?
- Reports of the first climb in 1884 helped inspire Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
