Wednesday, August 06, 2008

A small country

Last night I heard on World Service one of the people involved in the tv programme about searching for jaguars in the South American rain forest.

The presenter started by describing Guyana as a small sliver of a country

Well, everything is relative. Great Britain is not a large country, but I do not know if anyone would describe it as a small sliver

Fact: Area of Guyana – 83,000 square miles

Area of Great Britain – 88,000 square miles