The name "Guyana" comes from "The Guianas," an old name for a larger area that included the region now called Guyana (British Guyana), Suriname (Dutch Guiana), French Guiana, the Guayana Region in Venezuela (Spanish Guiana), and Amapá in Brazil (Portuguese Guiana). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "Guyana" is from an indigenous Amerindian language and means "land of many waters."