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Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America, and almost all of its people live in a strip of low coast between the Essequibo and the Corentyne rivers. Its ten administrative regions are the units its government, its census and its elections are organised around, and they cover the country without a gap.
The regions of today, named as Guyana names them: a number from 1 to 10 in law, and a hyphenated pair of rivers or places in everyday use, which is what the game asks for. Six of them touch the Atlantic. Barima-Waini is the north-western corner against Venezuela, Pomeroon-Supenaam and Essequibo Islands-West Demerara follow along the coast to the Demerara river, Demerara-Mahaica and Mahaica-Berbice are two thin strips around Georgetown, and East Berbice-Corentyne runs on to the Suriname border. The other four lie inland: Cuyuni-Mazaruni in the north-west, Potaro-Siparuni and Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo in the south-west and centre, and Upper Demerara-Berbice, the middle of the country.
The groups are not an official classification. They are the six coastal regions and the four inland ones, a way to learn the map a piece at a time. The map draws the western border where Guyana administers it, along the Cuyuni and Essequibo rivers, which Venezuela disputes.
Demerara-Mahaica holds Georgetown and most of Guyana's people, in a strip of coast far smaller than the empty regions behind it.
Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo is the biggest region: the Rupununi savannah and the Brazilian border, with a handful of people over a huge area.
East Berbice-Corentyne takes in the coast from the Berbice river to the Corentyne, the Suriname border, and the long southern tail of the country beside it.
Ten, and together they cover the whole of the country, so the game has no territory outside them. The ten date from 1980.
Not officially. The two groups here are the six regions on the Atlantic coast and the four inland, and they are only a way to learn the map.
The map shows Guyana as it is administered, to the Essequibo river and beyond. Venezuela claims the land west of that river, a dispute that is before the International Court of Justice.
