Essequibo (Q1368792)

Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Essequibo ( ESS-ə-KWEE-boh; Dutch: Kolonie Essequebo [koːˈloːni ɛsəˈkʋeːboː]) was a Dutch colony in the Guianas and later a county on the Essequibo River in the Guiana region on the north coast of South America. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1616 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state from 1792 until 1815. It was merged with Demerara in 1812 by the British who took control. It formally became a British colony in 1815 until Demerara-Essequibo was merged with Berbice to form the colony of British Guiana in 1831. In 1838, it became a county of British Guiana till 1958. In 1966, British Guiana gained independence as Guyana and in 1970 it became a republic as the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. It was located around the lower course of the Essequibo River.

Summary from Nederlands / Dutch Wikipedia (nlwiki)

Essequebo (Engels: Essequibo) was van 1616 tot 1815 een Nederlandse kolonie in de regio van de gelijknamige rivier aan de noordelijke kust van Zuid-Amerika. De kolonie vormde onderdeel van de koloniën die ook bekend zijn onder het verzamelbegrip Nederlands-Guiana.

Wikidata location: 7.0333, -58.4500 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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relation: Essequibo Islands (OSM)exact location match [show tags]
name: Essequibo Islands
name:es: Islas Esequibo-Demerara Occidental
alt_name: Region 3
boundary: administrative
wikidata: Q1368802
ISO3166-2: GY-ES
wikipedia: en:Essequibo Islands
admin_level: 4
border_type: region

wikidata mismatch: Q1368802
way: Essequibo (OSM), 3.68 km from Wikidata [show tags]
name: Essequibo
boundary: administrative
admin_level: 4
way: Essequibo (OSM), 4.05 km from Wikidata [show tags]
name: Essequibo
boundary: administrative
admin_level: 4
way: Essequibo (OSM), 5.01 km from Wikidata [show tags]
name: Essequibo
boundary: administrative
admin_level: 4
way: Essequibo (OSM), 5.36 km from Wikidata [show tags]
name: Essequibo
boundary: administrative
admin_level: 4

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administrative territorial entity (Q56061) boundary=administrative