Para District
Para is a district of northern Suriname. Para's capital city is Onverwacht, with other towns including Paranam, and Zanderij. Para has a population of 24,700 and an area of 5,393 km2.- Type: district of Suriname with 19,000 residents
- Description: district of Suriname
- Also known as: “District Para”, “Distrikt fu Para”, “Para (distrikt)”, “Para Suriname”, and “SR-PR”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Matta.
Matta
Village
Matta also known as Matta Karupa is an Indigenous… Matta is situated 4 km north of Para District.
Para District
- Location: Suriname, South America
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Latitude
5.4167° or 5° 25′ north
Longitude
-55.3333° or 55° 20′ west
Population
19,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
Open location code
68Q6CM88+MM
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Para District” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፓራ ምስzone”
- Arabic: “ضاحية بارا”
- Asturian: “Para”
- Azerbaijani: “Para rayonu”
- Bengali: “পারা জেলা”
- Catalan: “Para”
- Cebuano: “Distrikt Para”
- Chinese: “帕拉区”
- Chinese: “帕拉區”
- Croatian: “Para”
- Danish: “Para”
- Dutch: “Para”
- Esperanto: “Para”
- Finnish: “Para”
- French: “Para”
- Galician: “Para”
- German: “Para”
- Greek: “Πάρα”
- Gujarati: “પેરા જિલ્લો”
- Hausa: “Gundumar Para”
- Hindi: “पारा जिला”
- Inari Sami: “Para pirrâdâh”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Para”
- Italian: “distretto del Para”
- Italian: “Distretto del Para”
- Japanese: “パラ”
- Japanese: “パラ地方”
- Javanese: “Dhistrik Para”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾರಾ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Kazakh: “Пара округі”
- Kirghiz: “Пара району”
- Korean: “파라구”
- Latvian: “Paras distrikts”
- Lithuanian: “Paros apygarda”
- Macedonian: “Пара (округ)”
- Macedonian: “Пара”
- Malay: “Para District”
- Marathi: “पेरा जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Para Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Para”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Para”
- Norwegian: “Para”
- Oromo: “Giddaa Para”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਰਾ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “ناحیه پارا”
- Polish: “Para”
- Portuguese: “Para”
- Portuguese: “Pará”
- Pushto: “پارا ولسوالۍ”
- Romanian: “Districtul Para”
- Romanian: “Para”
- Russian: “Пара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Para”
- Sinhala: “පරා දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Sinhala: “පැරා දිස්ත්රික්කය, සුරිනාමය”
- Slovenian: “Para”
- Somali: “Gobolka Para”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Para”
- Spanish: “Para”
- Sranan Tongo: “Pasuni fu Para”
- Swahili: “Wilaya wa Para”
- Swedish: “Para”
- Tajik: “Минтақаи Пара”
- Tamil: “பரா மாவட்டம்”
- Tatar: “Пара районы”
- Telugu: “పారా జిల్లా”
- Thai: “เขตปารา”
- Turkish: “Para District”
- Ukrainian: “Пара”
- Urdu: “پارا ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Para tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Para”
- Wu Chinese: “帕拉区”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Zanderij and Sectie.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Cola Creek and Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport.
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