Paramaribo
Paramaribo, often called Par'bo, is the lively capital and only city of the sparsely inhabited country of Suriname. Home to about 240,000 people, or over half of the country's population, this laid-back South American gem lies 15 km from the Atlantic Ocean.
- Type: City with 243,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Suriname
- Also known as: “Parbo”, “Парамарибо қаласы”, “פּאַראַמאַריבאָ”, “પેરામરિબો”, “பராமரிபோ”, and “பாராமாரீபோ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: André Kamperveen Stadion and Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral.
André Kamperveen Stadion
Stadium
Photo: Brokopondo, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beekhuizen and Latour.
Paramaribo
- Categories: big city, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Paramaribo District, Suriname, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.8248° or 5° 49′ 29″ north
Longitude
-55.1704° or 55° 10′ 13″ west
Population
243,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
PBM
UN/LOCODE
SR PBM
Open location code
68Q6RRFH+WR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Paramaribo” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Paramaribô”
- Afrikaans: “Paramaribo”
- Albanian: “Paramaribo”
- Amharic: “ፓራማሪቦ”
- Arabic: “باراماريبو”
- Aragonese: “Paramaribo”
- Armenian: “Պարամարիբո”
- Asturian: “Paramaribo”
- Asturian: “Paramaribu”
- Aymara: “Paramaribo”
- Azerbaijani: “Paramaribo”
- Balinese: “Paramaribo”
- Bashkir: “Парамарибо”
- Basque: “Paramaribo”
- Belarusian: “Парамарыба”
- Bengali: “পারামারিবো”
- Bhojpuri: “पारामारिबो”
- Bosnian: “Paramaribo”
- Breton: “Paramaribo”
- Bulgarian: “Парамарибо”
- Catalan: “Paramaribo”
- Cebuano: “Paramaribo”
- Central Kurdish: “پاراماریبۆ”
- Chechen: “Парамарибо”
- Chinese: “巴拉馬利波”
- Chinese: “帕拉马里博”
- Chuvash: “Парамарибо”
- Croatian: “Paramaribo”
- Czech: “Paramaribo”
- Danish: “Paramaribo”
- Dimli (individual language): “Paramaribo”
- Dutch: “Paramaribo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باراماريبو”
- Esperanto: “Paramaribo”
- Estonian: “Paramaribo”
- Fiji Hindi: “Paramaribo”
- Finnish: “Paramaribo”
- French: “Paramaribo”
- Galician: “Paramaribo”
- Georgian: “პარამარიბო”
- German: “Paramaribo”
- Greek: “Παραμαρίμπο”
- Guarani: “Paramaribo”
- Gujarati: “પારામારિબો”
- Haitian: “Paramaribo”
- Hakka Chinese: “Paramaribo”
- Hausa: “Paramaribo”
- Hebrew: “פרמריבו”
- Hindi: “पारामरिबो”
- Hindi: “पारामरीबो”
- Hindi: “पारामारिबो”
- Hungarian: “Paramaribo”
- Icelandic: “Paramaríbó”
- Ido: “Paramaribo”
- Inari Sami: “Paramaribo”
- Indonesian: “Paramaribo”
- Interlingua: “Paramaribo”
- Interlingue: “Paramaribo”
- Irish: “Paramaribo”
- Italian: “Paramaribo”
- Japanese: “パラマリボ”
- Javanese: “Paramaribo”
- Kannada: “ಪರಮಾರಿಬೋ”
- Kannada: “ಪಾರಮಾರಿಬೋ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Paramaribo”
- Kazakh: “Парамарибо”
- Kirghiz: “Парамарибо”
- Korean: “파라마리보”
- Kotava: “Paramaribo”
- Kurdish: “Paramarîbo”
- Latin: “Paramaribo”
- Latvian: “Paramaribo”
- Ligurian: “Paramaribo”
- Limburgan: “Paramaribo”
- Lithuanian: “Paramaribas”
- Livvi: “Paramaribo”
- Lombard: “Paramaribo”
- Luxembourgish: “Paramaribo”
- Macedonian: “Парамарибо”
- Malagasy: “Paramaribo”
- Malay: “Paramaribo”
- Malayalam: “പരമാരിബൊ”
- Maltese: “Paramaribo”
- Manx: “Paramaribo”
- Marathi: “पारामारिबो”
- Mazanderani: “پاراماریبو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Paramaribo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Paramaribo”
- Minangkabau: “Paramaribo”
- Mingrelian: “პარამარიბო”
- Moksha: “Парамариба”
- Moksha: “Парамарибо”
- Mongolian: “Парамарибо”
- Moroccan Arabic: “پاراماريبو”
- Nepali: “पारामारिबो”
- Newari: “पारामारिबो”
- Northern Sami: “Paramaribo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paramaribo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paramaribo”
- Norwegian: “Paramaribo”
- Novial: “Paramaribo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Paramaribo”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pæramæriburg”
- Ossetian: “Парамарибо”
- Panjabi: “ਪਾਰਾਮਾਰੀਬੋ”
- Papiamento: “Paramaribo”
- Persian: “پاراماریبو”
- Piemontese: “Paramaribo”
- Polish: “Paramaribo”
- Portuguese: “Paramaribo”
- Pushto: “پاراماریبو”
- Quechua: “Paramaribo”
- Romanian: “Paramaribo”
- Russian: “Парамарибо”
- Santali: “ᱯᱟᱨᱟᱢᱚᱨᱤᱵᱳ”
- Sardinian: “Paramaribo”
- Scots: “Paramaribo”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Paramaribo”
- Serbian: “Парамарибо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paramaribo”
- Shona: “Paramaribo”
- Silesian: “Paramaribo”
- Sindhi: “پاراماريبو”
- Sinhala: “පැරමරිබෝ”
- Skolt Sami: “Paramaribo”
- Slovak: “Paramaribo”
- Slovenian: “Paramaribo”
- Somali: “Paramaribo”
- South Azerbaijani: “پاراماریبو”
- Spanish: “Paramaribo”
- Sranan Tongo: “Paramaribo”
- Swahili: “Paramaribo”
- Swedish: “Paramaribo”
- Tagalog: “Paramaribo”
- Tajik: “Парамарибо”
- Tajik: “Парамибо”
- Talysh: “Paramaribo”
- Tamil: “பரமாரிபோ”
- Tatar: “Парамарибо”
- Telugu: “పారామారిబో”
- Thai: “ปารามาริโบ”
- Thai: “ปารามารีโบ”
- Tibetan: “པེ་ར་མེ་རི་བོ།”
- Turkish: “Paramaribo”
- Turkmen: “Paramaribo”
- Udmurt: “Парамарибо”
- Ukrainian: “Парамарибо”
- Ukrainian: “Парамарібо”
- Urdu: “پاراماریبو”
- Uzbek: “Paramaribo”
- Venetian: “Paramaribo”
- Veps: “Paramaribo”
- Vietnamese: “Paramaribo”
- Vlaams: “Paramaribo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Paramaribo”
- Welsh: “Paramaribo”
- Western Frisian: “Paramaribo”
- Wu Chinese: “帕拉马里博”
- Yiddish: “פאראמאריבא”
- Yoruba: “Paramaribo”
- Yue Chinese: “巴拉馬利波”
- Zeeuws: “Paramaribo”
- Zulu: “i-Paramaribo”
- “Paramaribo”
- “पारामारिबो”
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