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The longest land border for each European country (i.redd.it)
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[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The old name of Suriname was Dutch Guyana, Guyanas is the name of the region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guianas

They just used the general name when British Guyana became independent.