Geography of Guyana

The Geography of Guyana comprises the physical characteristics of the country in Northern South America and part of Caribbean South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Suriname and Venezuela, with a land area of approximately . The country is situated between 1 and 9 north latitude and between 56 and 62 west longitude. With a -long Atlantic coastline on the northeast, Guyana is bounded by Venezuela on the west, Brazil on the west and south, and Suriname on the east.

Guyana has no well-defined shoreline or sandy beaches.

==Climate==

thumb|210px|Guyana map of Köppen climate classification.

thumb|210 px|A few scattered fires (red dots) in northern South America: Venezuela (left), Guyana (right) and Brazil (bottom centre)

Guyana has a tropical climate, with two wet seasons (December to early February and from late April to mid-August). Temperatures are consistent throughout the year.

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thumb|200 px|Economic activity map of Guyana

Forests

Tree cover extent and loss

Global Forest Watch publishes annual estimates of tree cover loss and 2000 tree cover extent derived from time-series analysis of Landsat satellite imagery in the Global Forest Change dataset. In this framework, tree cover refers to vegetation taller than 5 m (including natural forests and tree plantations), and tree cover loss is defined as the complete removal of tree cover canopy for a given year, regardless of cause.

For Guyana, country statistics report cumulative tree cover loss of from 2001 to 2024 (about 2.0% of its 2000 tree cover area).

The first assessed submission, technically assessed in 2015, was a national forest reference emission level (FREL) covering "reducing emissions from deforestation" and "reducing emissions from forest degradation". Using a combined reference level approach based on 2001-2012 data, the assessed FREL was 46,301,251 t CO2 eq per year. The technical assessment states that it included above-ground biomass and below-ground biomass for both activities, plus dead wood for forest degradation, and reported CO2 only. The technical assessment reports that the updated benchmark included above-ground biomass, below-ground biomass, deadwood, litter and soil organic carbon, and included CO2, CH<sub>4</sub> and N<sub>2</sub>O.