Guyana document photos online

Guyana's passport is unlike any other on Earth in one telling detail: it is issued by the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, the only nation that wrote an economic philosophy into its very name when it became a republic in 1970. The document itself is a CARICOM passport, its visa pages decorated with the country's flora, fauna and natural wonders rather than plain guilloche. And the country it represents is a place of superlatives, the only English-speaking nation in South America, its capital sitting two metres below the sea behind a 260-mile wall, and home to the world's tallest single-drop waterfall.

• Passport Guyana issues a CARICOM passport whose visa pages are illustrated with the country's flora, fauna and natural wonders, making it one of the more decorative travel documents in the Americas.
• Passport power As of 2026 the Guyanese passport ranks 50th on the Henley Passport Index, giving its holders visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 88 destinations, tied with the passport of Nauru.
• Document reform From 2025 Guyanese applicants can choose between a 5-year or 10-year passport, priced at 6,000 and 12,000 Guyanese dollars respectively, replacing the older fixed-validity machine-readable booklet.
• Currency The Guyanese dollar traces back to 1839 as a transitional money during the switch from Dutch guilders to British sterling, taking its modern form only with the founding of the Bank of Guyana in 1965.
• Banknotes Guyana's banknotes carry a watermark of the red macaw, the national bird, plus raised tactile marks so blind and partially sighted people can identify each denomination by touch, with the G$5,000 note (issued 2013) the largest in circulation.
• Statehood Guyana is the only country on the planet to embed an economic model in its official title, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, adopted in 1970 to honour the cooperatives freed slaves built after emancipation in 1834.
• Geography Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America, and its name is most likely an Indigenous word meaning 'Land of Many Waters'.
• Capital The capital, Georgetown, sits about two metres below sea level and is protected from the Atlantic by a seawall roughly 260 miles long that runs along much of the coast.
• Record Kaieteur Falls on the Potaro River is widely cited as the world's highest single-drop waterfall, plunging about 226 metres in one uninterrupted cascade, roughly four times the height of Niagara.