The National Gazetteer contains six thousand, six hundred and twenty-five (6,625) entries of the names of places and geographical features in Guyana. It is a new compilation and it supersedes the Gazetteer of Guyana published by the Lands and Surveys Department, Ministry of Agriculture, in 1974. The names listed in this Gazetteer include major and minor administrative divisions, populated and other named places, various cultural entities and a variety of geographical features. There are seven columns in which are listed, from left to right, the name, features, locations, latitudes, longitudes, regional codes and the 1:50,000 map reference No.
The National Gazetteer is available both as a printed book and as a computer application called the Digital Gazetteer.
This application needs to be installed on a windows-based PC. Various functionalities are available in this application such as: