Suriname
Marowijne District
Albina

Albina

Albina is a town in eastern , and is capital of the . The town lies on the west bank of the Marowijne river, which forms the border with , directly opposite the French Guianan town of , to which it is connected by a frequent ferry service.
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  • Type: Town with 5,250 residents
  • Description: border town in Suriname
  • Also known as: “Albina, Suriname”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni Airport and Subprefecture hotel of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving , a commune of . The city is on the Maroni River, the border with . is situated 3 km southeast of Albina.

Public building
Photo: Danekino2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a public building, which is situated 3 km east of Albina.

Church
Photo: Psu973, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a religious building that serves as a parish church dependent on the Diocese of Cayenne which was created by pope Pius XII with the Bull "Qua sollicitudine" in 1956. is situated 3½ km east of Albina.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Balaté and La Charbonnière.

Neighborhood
is a village of Lokono Amerindians in the commune of at the confluence of the Maroni River and the River in .

Neighborhood
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is a neighbourhood of , . The neighbourhood is mainly populated by Maroons. was created in 1989 to house Surinamese refugees, and to resettle the inhabitants of the shanty towns. is situated 2½ km east of Albina.

Village
is a village of Kalina Amerindians in the commune of . The village is located about 12 kilometres south of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni on the road to . is situated 8 km south of Albina.

Albina

Latitude
5.49848° or 5° 29′ 55″ north
Longitude
-54.05745° or 54° 3′ 27″ west
Population
5,250
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
ABN
United Nations Location Code
SR ABN
Open location code
68Q7FWXV+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 281550841
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3384792
Wiki­data ID
Q580016
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Albina” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألبينا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Albina”
  • Catalan: “Albina”
  • Cebuano: “Albina”
  • Chinese: “阿爾比納”
  • Czech: “Albina”
  • Dutch: “Albina”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البينا”
  • Esperanto: “Albina”
  • French: “Albina”
  • Galician: “Albina”
  • German: “Albina”
  • Hungarian: “Albina”
  • Indonesian: “Albina, Suriname”
  • Indonesian: “Albina”
  • Italian: “Albina”
  • Japanese: “アルビーナ”
  • Javanese: “Albina”
  • Lithuanian: “Albina”
  • Moksha: “Албина”
  • Northern Frisian: “Albina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Albina”
  • Persian: “البینا، سورینام”
  • Persian: “البینا”
  • Polish: “Albina (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Albina”
  • Portuguese: “Albina”
  • Romanian: “Albina, surinam”
  • Romanian: “Albina, Surinam”
  • Romanian: “Albina, Suriname”
  • Romanian: “Albina”
  • Russian: “Албина”
  • Russian: “Альбина (город)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Albina, Surinam”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Albina”
  • Sinhala: “ඇල්බිනා, සුරිනාමය”
  • Spanish: “Albina (Suriname)”
  • Spanish: “Albina Surinam”
  • Spanish: “Albina”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Albina”
  • Swedish: “Albina”
  • Ukrainian: “Албіна”
  • Urdu: “البینا، سرینام”
  • Urdu: “البینا”

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