Onverwacht
Onverwacht is the capital town of Para District, Suriname. Onverwacht started as a wood plantation with the same name and has existed as early as 1667.
- Type: Town with 2,110 residents
- Description: settlement in Suriname
- Also known as: “Bose”, “Onverwacht, Suriname”, “Onverwagt”, “Unverwacht”, and “オンベルワハト”
Onverwacht
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Para District, Suriname, South America
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Latitude
5.59008° or 5° 35′ 24″ north
Longitude
-55.19363° or 55° 11′ 37″ west
Population
2,110
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
68Q6HRR4+2G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Onverwacht” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኦንቨርዋሕት”
- Arabic: “أونفيرفاخت”
- Azerbaijani: “Onverwacht”
- Bengali: “অনভেরওয়াখট”
- Cebuano: “Onverwacht”
- Dutch: “Onverwacht”
- French: “Onverwacht”
- German: “Onverwacht”
- Hausa: “Onverwacht”
- Hindi: “ऑनवरवाख़्ट”
- Hindi: “ऑनवेरवाछ्ट”
- Indonesian: “Onverwacht”
- Irish: “Onverwacht”
- Italian: “Onverwacht”
- Japanese: “オンフェルワハト”
- Javanese: “Onverwacht”
- Kazakh: “Онверхахт”
- Kirghiz: “Онверхахт”
- Lithuanian: “Onvervachtas”
- Malay: “Onverwacht”
- Northern Frisian: “Onverwacht”
- Oromo: “Onverwacht”
- Panjabi: “ਆਨਵਰਵਾਚਟ”
- Persian: “آنفروخت”
- Polish: “Onverwacht”
- Portuguese: “Onverwacht”
- Pushto: “آن ورواخت”
- Romanian: “Onverwacht”
- Russian: “Онвервахт”
- Russian: “Онверхахт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Onverwacht, Surinam”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Onverwacht”
- Sinhala: “ඔන්වර්වොච්ට්, සුරිනාමය”
- Slovenian: “Onverwacht”
- Somali: “Onverwacht”
- Spanish: “Onverwacht”
- Sranan Tongo: “Onverwacht”
- Swahili: “Onverwacht”
- Swedish: “Onverwacht”
- Tajik: “Онверхахт”
- Tatar: “Онверхахт”
- Turkish: “Onverwacht”
- Ukrainian: “Онвервахт”
- Urdu: “آن ورواخٹ”
- Urdu: “اونورواخت، سرینام”
- Urdu: “اونورواخت”
- Uzbek: “Onverwacht”
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