Guyana Research Paper

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I have decided to conduct my paper on the state of Guyana. Guyana is a small Country in
South America. Bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by Suriname, on the northwest by Venezuela, and on the south and southwest by Brazil. The Capitol City of Guyana is Georgetown. This paper will tell the culture, habitation, people, the world they live in, at the end of this paper you will have a clear understanding to the state of Guyana. I will be using the
ASCOPE to conduct my research on Guyana. Guyana is an Amerindian word meaning “The land of many waters”. The population of
Guyana has declined over the past two decades. The population is made up of 49 percent Indians,
35 percent Africans, 7 percent mixed-races,
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Rice is grown primarily on small farms, and coconuts also an important crop. The major industrial products are bauxite, gold, and lumber. Fishing is established, as is livestock rearing. Tourism, mainly to the wild interior, is in its infancy.
Guyana trades primarily with the European Union (mainly the United Kingdom), Canada, the
United States, and the Caribbean community. Most of the country's main export, sugar, is sold to the European Union. The bulk of rice production goes to the Caribbean, and bauxite is exported to Canada and the United States.

Eighty percent of workers in the sugar industry and ninety percent of rice farmers are
Indian, as are many growers of fruits and vegetables and forestry and fishing workers. Africans tend to go into the professions, work in public service, and seek employment as skilled workers in urban centers and the interior.

In closing Guyana is still a young country and specialize in the production of sugar and rice. They are a small country that are still building up their structure. They have two main cities that are built up, New Amsterdam and Georgetown. They people in Guyana are made up of many different cultures mainly African, Indians, and

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