Nieuw Amsterdam
Nieuw Amsterdam is the capital of the Commewijne District in Suriname. It is a small coastal town situated at the confluence of the Suriname River and Commewijne River, just across from Paramaribo, the country's capital.Photo: DustinVII, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1,200 residents
- Description: resort of Suriname
- Also known as: “Fort Amsterdam”, “Fort Neu-Amsterdam”, “Fort New Amsterdam”, “Nieuw Amsterdam, Suriname”, and “Nw. Amsterdam, CM, SR”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam.
Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam
Photo: Jakob van der Schley, Public domain.
Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam is a fort in Suriname built from 1734 to 1747 at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers. It is open to the public as an open-air museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mariënburg and Johan & Margaretha.
Mariënburg
Hamlet
Photo: Gonggrijp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mariënburg is a former sugarcane plantation, factory and village, situated in the district of Commewijne, in northern Suriname. Mariënburg is situated 4½ km east of Nieuw Amsterdam.
Johan & Margaretha
Village
Johan & Margaretha or sometimes just Margaretha is a resort in Suriname, located in the Commewijne District. Its population at the 2012 census was 756. Johan & Margaretha is situated 5 km east of Nieuw Amsterdam.
Noord
Village
Noord is a resort in Suriname, located in the Para District. Its population at the 2012 census was 9,703. Noord is mainly an agricultural area, and has a school. Noord is situated 6 km southwest of Nieuw Amsterdam.
Nieuw Amsterdam
- Categories: ressort of Suriname, city, and locality
- Location: Commewijne District, Suriname, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.88042° or 5° 52′ 50″ northLongitude
-55.08496° or 55° 5′ 6″ westPopulation
1,200Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
68Q6VWJ8+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 281552634OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3383434Wikidata ID
Q762619
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Frisian—“Nieuw Amsterdam” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኒው አምስተርዳም”
- Arabic: “نيو أمستردام”
- Asturian: “Nieuw Amsterdam (Surinam)”
- Asturian: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Azerbaijani: “Yeni Amsterdam”
- Bengali: “নিউ এমস্টার্ডাম”
- Cebuano: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Chinese: “新阿姆斯特丹”
- Dutch: “Nieuw-Amsterdam”
- Dutch: “Nw. Amsterdam, CM, SR”
- Esperanto: “Nova Amsterdamo”
- French: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- French: “Nieuw-Amsterdam”
- German: “Neu-Amsterdam”
- German: “Nieuw-Amsterdam”
- Hausa: “Sabuwar Amsterdam”
- Hindi: “न्यू एम्स्टर्डम”
- Indonesian: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Italian: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Japanese: “ニウ・アムステルダム”
- Japanese: “ニューアムステルダム”
- Javanese: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Kazakh: “Нивю-Амстердам”
- Kirghiz: “Нивю-Амстердам”
- Korean: “뉴암스테르담”
- Korean: “니우암스테르담”
- Lithuanian: “Naujasis Amsterdamas”
- Malay: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Moksha: “Ньив-Амстэрдам”
- Northern Frisian: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Northern Frisian: “Nieuw-Amsterdam”
- Oromo: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Panjabi: “ਨਿਊ ਐਮਸਟਰਡੈਮ”
- Persian: “نیو آمستردام، سورینام”
- Persian: “نیو آمستردام”
- Polish: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Portuguese: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Portuguese: “Nova Amsterdã”
- Portuguese: “Nova Amsterdão”
- Pushto: “نيو أمستردام”
- Romanian: “Nieuw Amsterdam, Surinam”
- Romanian: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Russian: “Нивю-Амстердам”
- Russian: “Ньив-Амстердам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nieuw Amsterdam, Surinam”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Sinhala: “නියු ඇම්ස්ටර්ඩෑම්, සුරිනාමය”
- Slovenian: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Somali: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Spanish: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Spanish: “Nueva Ámsterdam”
- Sranan Tongo: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Swahili: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Tajik: “Нивю-Амстердам”
- Tatar: “Нивю-Амстердам”
- Turkish: “Yeni Amsterdam”
- Ukrainian: “Ньїв-Амстердам”
- Urdu: “نیو ایمسٹرڈیم، سرینام”
- Urdu: “نیو ایمسٹرڈیم”
- Uzbek: “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- Western Frisian: “Nij-Amsterdam”
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