South America
Suriname
Paramaribo District

Paramaribo

Paramaribo, often called Par'bo, is the lively capital and only city of the sparsely inhabited country of . Home to about 240,000 people, or over half of the country's population, this laid-back gem lies 15 km from the Atlantic Ocean.
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  • Type: City with 243,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Suriname
  • Also known as: “Parbo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include André Kamperveen Stadion and Mosque Keizerstraat.

Stadium
Photo: Brokopondo, Public domain.
André Kamperveen Stadium, formerly the National Stadion, is a multi-purpose stadium in Paramaribo, Suriname. Since its opening in 1953, the stadium has been the official home stadium of both football teams S.V.

Mosque
Photo: Brokopondo, Public domain.
The Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at Islam is the headquarters of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement in Paramaribo in , the Surinaamse Islamitische Vereniging. The mosque is located in the Keizerstraat, adjacent to the .

Government office
Photo: Ian Mackenzie, CC BY 2.0.
The is the presidential palace of in the capital of Paramaribo. It is located across from The Independence Square, which also houses the National Assembly of Suriname, the Congress building, the Court of Justice, and the Ministry of Finance.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Meerzorg and Latour.

Village
Photo: Humbert-L-Siegers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town and resort in , located on the eastern bank of the , directly opposite the capital Paramaribo. Its population at the 2012 census was 12,405.

Village
is a resort in , located in the . Its population at the 2012 census was 29,526. is a low income neighbourhood with large unemployment.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a former sugarcane plantation and currently a resort in , located in the . Its population at the 2012 census was 17,185.

Paramaribo

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
United Nations Location Code
SR PBM
Open location code
68Q6RRFH+WR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 281537750
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3383330
Wiki­data ID
Q3001
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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”
  • Chechen: “Парамарибо”
  • Chinese: “Paramaribo”
  • 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”
  • French: “Parbo”
  • Galician: “Paramaribo”
  • Georgian: “პარამარიბო”
  • German: “Paramaribo”
  • Greek: “Παραμαρίμπο”
  • Guarani: “Paramaribo”
  • Gujarati: “પારામારિબો”
  • Gujarati: “પેરામરિબો”
  • Haitian: “Paramaribo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Paramaribo”
  • Hausa: “Paramaribo”
  • Hebrew: “פרמריבו”
  • Hindi: “पारामरिबो”
  • Hindi: “पारामरीबो”
  • Hindi: “पारामारिबो”
  • Hindi: “पैरामारिबो”
  • 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 қаласы”
  • 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”
  • Northern Sami: “Paramaribo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paramaribo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paramaribo”
  • Norwegian: “Paramaribo”
  • Novial: “Paramaribo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Paramaribo”
  • Ossetian: “Парамарибо”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਰਾਮਾਰੀਬੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Paramaribo”
  • Persian: “پاراماریبو”
  • Piemontese: “Paramaribo”
  • Polish: “Paramaribo”
  • Polish: “Parbo”
  • Portuguese: “Paramaribo”
  • Pushto: “پاراماریبو”
  • Quechua: “Paramaribo”
  • Romanian: “Paramaribo”
  • Russian: “Парамарибо”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱟᱨᱟᱢᱚᱨᱤᱵᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “Paramaribo”
  • Scots: “Paramaribo”
  • Scots: “Parbo”
  • 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”
  • Tamil: “பராமரிபோ”
  • Tamil: “பாராமாரீபோ”
  • 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”
  • Yiddish: “פּאַראַמאַריבאָ”
  • Yoruba: “Paramaribo”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴拉馬利波”
  • Zeeuws: “Paramaribo”
  • Zulu: “i-Paramaribo”
  • “Paramaribo”
  • “पारामारिबो”

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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 “Paramaribo”. Photo: Sn.fernandez, CC BY-SA 4.0.