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New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam is one of 's largest towns on the eastern end of the Coastal Plain. It had a population of 17,329 in 2012.
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  • Type: City with 35,000 residents
  • Description: city in Guyana
  • Also known as: “New Amsterdam, Guyana” and “Nieuw Amsterdam”

New Amsterdam

Latitude of center
6.2426° or 6° 14′ 34″ north
Longitude of center
-57.5168° or 57° 31′ 1″ west
Population
35,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
QSX
United Nations Location Code
GY NAM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 364838273
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3376762
Wiki­data ID
Q923811
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“New Amsterdam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيو أمستردام”
  • Asturian: “New Amsterdam”
  • Belarusian: “Нью-Амстэрдам”
  • Bengali: “নিউ আমস্টারডাম”
  • Cebuano: “New Amsterdam”
  • Chinese: “新阿姆斯特丹”
  • Czech: “New Amsterdam”
  • Danish: “New Amsterdam”
  • Dutch: “New Amsterdam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيو امستردام”
  • Esperanto: “Nov-Amsterdamo”
  • Finnish: “New Amsterdam”
  • French: “New Amsterdam”
  • French: “Nouvelle-Amsterdam”
  • German: “New Amsterdam”
  • Greek: “Νέο Άμστερνταμ”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યૂ એમ્સ્ટર્ડમ, ગુયાના”
  • Hebrew: “ניו אמסטרדם”
  • Hindi: “न्यू एम्स्टर्डम”
  • Indonesian: “New Amsterdam, Guyana”
  • Indonesian: “New Amsterdam”
  • Italian: “New Amsterdam”
  • Japanese: “ニューアムステルダム”
  • Japanese: “新アムステルダム”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂ ಆಮ್ಸ್ಟರ್ಡ್ಯಾಮ್, ಗಯಾನಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Нью-Амстердам”
  • Korean: “뉴암스테르담”
  • Latvian: “Jaunamsterdama”
  • Lithuanian: “Naujasis Amsterdamas”
  • Malagasy: “New Amsterdam (Guyana)”
  • Malagasy: “New Amsterdam”
  • Malay: “New Amsterdam”
  • Marathi: “न्यू अॅम्स्टरडॅम”
  • Moksha: “Нью Амстэрдам (Гаяна)”
  • Moksha: “Нью Амстэрдам”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “New Amsterdam”
  • Norwegian: “New Amsterdam”
  • Polish: “New Amsterdam”
  • Portuguese: “New Amsterdam, Guiana”
  • Portuguese: “New Amsterdam”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Amesterdã”
  • Russian: “Нью-Амстердам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “New Amsterdam, Gvajana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “New Amsterdam”
  • Silesian: “New Amsterdam”
  • Sinhala: “නව ඇම්ස්ටඩෑම්, ගයනා”
  • Sinhala: “නව ඇම්ස්ටඩෑම්, ගයනාව”
  • Spanish: “New Amsterdam”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Amsterdam”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Ámsterdam”
  • Swedish: “New Amsterdam, Guyana”
  • Swedish: “New Amsterdam”
  • Tamil: “நியூ ஆம்ஸ்டர்டம்”
  • Telugu: “న్యూ ఆమ్స్టర్డామ్”
  • Thai: “นิว อัมเสตอร์ดัม, กูยานา”
  • Turkish: “New Amsterdam”
  • Ukrainian: “Нью-Амстердам”
  • Urdu: “نیو ایمسٹرڈیم، گیانا”
  • Urdu: “نیو ایمسٹرڈیم”
  • Vietnamese: “New Amsterdam”
  • Volapük: “New Amsterdam”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “New Amsterdam”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.