Translation for 'British Guiana' from English to Russian

British Guiana [now Guyana]

Британская Гвиана {ж} [нынешняя Гайана]геогр.ист.

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French Guiana

Французская Гвиана {ж}геогр.

anti-British

антибританский {adj}пол.социол.

British colonialism

британский колониализм {м}пол.

British imperialism

британский империализм {м}пол.

British Isles

Британские острова {мн}геогр.

British Columbia <BC>

Британская Колумбия {ж} [канадская провинция]геогр.

(British) Virgin Islands <BVI>

Британские Виргинские острова {мн} <БВО>геогр.

• He arrived in British Guiana in August 1934, and returned to the United States in October 1955.
• He escaped with twelve others, making their way to British Guiana.
• In 1804 he travelled to British Guiana to take charge of his uncle's slave plantations near Georgetown.
• The Guiana Shield underlies Guyana (previously British Guiana), Suriname (previously Dutch Guiana) and French Guiana (or Guyane), much of southern Venezuela, as well as parts of Colombia and Brazil.
• In 1965, the British West Indies dollar of the now defunct West Indies Federation was replaced at par by the Eastern Caribbean dollar and the BCCB was replaced by the Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority or ECCA (established by the Eastern Caribbean Currency Agreement 1965). British Guiana withdrew from the currency union the following year.

• Other nations receiving large numbers of Barbadians included British Guiana and Panama.
• Although the exact date of arrival of rugby union in Trinidad and Tobago is unknown, their first club Northern RFC was formed in 1923, a national team was playing by 1927 and due to a cancelled tour to British Guiana in 1933, switched their venue to Barbados; introducing rugby to the island.