Suriname

Suriname is a small republic on the northeast coast of . It prides itself on its thoroughly multi-ethnic culture, a colourful blend of indigenous traditions, those of its former Dutch colonisers, and especially those of the African, Javanese, and South Asian workers they once invited or trafficked in.
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Suriname

  • Country with about 563,000 residents
  • …was formerly known as “Dutch Guiana”
  • …has as its capital
  • …uses the Dollar (SRD)
  • …has the phone code 597
  • …uses the internet domain .sr
  • …covers 163,270 km² (63,039 miles²)
  • Description: country in South America
  • Also known as
    “Nederlandisch Guyana”
    “Nederlandsch Guyana”
    “Netherlands Guiana”
    “Republic of Surinam”
    “Republic of Suriname”
    “Republiek van Suriname”
    “sr”
    “Surinam”
    “Surrinam”
  • Languages
    Dutch
    English
    Sranan Tongo
    Caribbean Hindustani
    Javanese
  • Neighbors
  • Categories
    sovereign state
    national geopolitical entity
    locality
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
4.127° or 4° 7′ 37″ north
Longitude of center
-55.854° or 55° 51′ 14″ west
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425087
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3382998
Wiki­data ID
Q730

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Suriname” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Суринам”
  • Achinese: “Suriname”
  • Afrikaans: “Suriname”
  • Akan: “Suriname”
  • Albanian: “Surinami”
  • Amharic: “ሱሪናም”
  • Amis: “Suriname”
  • Angika: “सूरीनाम”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية سورينام”
  • Arabic: “سورينام”
  • Aragonese: “Surinam”
  • Armenian: “Սուրինամ”
  • Arpitan: “Suriname”
  • Assamese: “ছুৰিনাম”
  • Asturian: “Surinam”
  • Atayal: “Suriname”
  • Awadhi: “सूरिनाम”
  • Aymara: “Suriname”
  • Azerbaijani: “Surinam”
  • Balinese: “Suriname”
  • Bambara: “Surinami”
  • Bashkir: “Суринам”
  • Basque: “Surinam”
  • Bavarian: “Suriname”
  • Belarusian: “Сурынам”
  • Bengali: “সুরিনাম”
  • Betawi: “Suriname”
  • Bhojpuri: “सूरीनाम”
  • Bishnupriya: “সুরিনাম”
  • Bislama: “Ripablik blong Surinam”
  • Bislama: “Surinam”
  • Bislama: “Suriname”
  • Bosnian: “Surinam”
  • Breton: “Surinam”
  • Bulgarian: “Суринам”
  • Burmese: “ဆူရာနမ်”
  • Burmese: “ဆူရာနမ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Guaiana Neerlandesa”
  • Catalan: “República de Surinam”
  • Catalan: “sr”
  • Catalan: “Surinam”
  • Cebuano: “Surinam”
  • Central Bikol: “Surinam”
  • Central Kurdish: “سورینام”
  • Chavacano: “Surinam”
  • Chechen: “Суринам”
  • Cheyenne: “Suriname”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “flavio”
  • Chinese: “苏里南 / 蘇利南 / 蘇里南”
  • Chinese: “苏里南”
  • Chinese: “苏里南共和国”
  • Chinese: “荷属圭亚那”
  • Chinese: “蘇利南”
  • Chinese: “蘇里南”
  • Chuvash: “Суринам”
  • Cornish: “Surinam”
  • Corsican: “Republica di u Suriname”
  • Corsican: “Ripublica di u Suriname”
  • Corsican: “Suriname”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Surinam”
  • Croatian: “Surinam”
  • Czech: “Surinam”
  • Dagbani: “Suriname”
  • Danish: “Surinam”
  • Dhivehi: “ސުރިނާމް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Surinam”
  • Dotyali: “सुरिनाम”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Suriname”
  • Dutch: “Suriname”
  • Dzongkha: “སུ་རི་ནཱམ། Suriname”
  • Dzongkha: “སུ་རི་ནཱམ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Суринам”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سورينام”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Surinamo”
  • Esperanto: “Surinamo”
  • Estonian: “Suriname Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Suriname”
  • Ewe: “Suriname nutome”
  • Ewe: “Suriname”
  • Extremaduran: “Surinam”
  • Faroese: “Surinam”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Suriname”
  • Finnish: “Surinam”
  • Finnish: “Suriname”
  • Finnish: “Surinamen tasavalta”
  • French: “République du Surinam”
  • French: “République du Suriname”
  • French: “Surinam”
  • French: “Suriname”
  • Fulah: “Surinaam”
  • Gagauz: “Surinam”
  • Galician: “Surinam”
  • Galician: “Suriname”
  • Ganda: “Surinaamu”
  • Georgian: “სურინამი”
  • German: “Republik Suriname”
  • German: “Surinam”
  • German: “Suriname”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Suriname”
  • Gilaki: “سۊرينام”
  • Goan Konkani: “Suriname”
  • Goan Konkani: “सुरिनाम”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌿𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼𐌰”
  • Greek: “Σουρινάμ”
  • Guarani: “Surinã”
  • Guarani: “Surinam”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Sirinanm”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Sourinanm”
  • Gujarati: “સુરીનામ”
  • Haitian: “Repiblik Sirinam”
  • Haitian: “Sirinam”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Suriname”
  • Hausa: “Suriname”
  • Hawaiian: “Suliname”
  • Hebrew: “גיאנה ההולנדית”
  • Hebrew: “סורינאם”
  • Hebrew: “סורינם”
  • Hindi: “सुरिनाम”
  • Hungarian: “Holland Guyana”
  • Hungarian: “Holland-Guayana”
  • Hungarian: “Surinám”
  • Hungarian: “Suriname”
  • Hungarian: “Surinamei Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Suriname”
  • Icelandic: “Súrínam”
  • Ido: “Surinam”
  • Igbo: “Suriname”
  • Iloko: “Surinam”
  • Inari Sami: “Suriname täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Suriname”
  • Indonesian: “Suriname”
  • Interlingua: “Suriname”
  • Interlingue: “Surinam”
  • Irish: “Suranam”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Suriname”
  • Italian: “Suriname”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Surinam”
  • Japanese: “スリナム”
  • Japanese: “スリナム共和国”
  • Javanese: “Suriname”
  • Kabardian: “Суринам”
  • Kabyle: “Surinam”
  • Kabyle: “Tagduda n Surinam”
  • Kalaallisut: “Suriname”
  • Kalmyk: “Суринамудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಸುರಿನಾಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Surinam”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Суринам”
  • Kashmiri: “سُرِنام”
  • Kashmiri: “سوٗریٖنام”
  • Kazakh: “Суринам”
  • Khmer: “សូរីណាម”
  • Kikuyu: “Curinamu”
  • Kikuyu: “Surinamu”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Surinamu”
  • Kirghiz: “Суринам”
  • Korean: “수리남”
  • Kurdish: “Sûrînam”
  • Ladin: “Suriname”
  • Ladino: “Surinam”
  • Lao: “ຊູຣິນາມ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຊູຣີນາມ”
  • Latgalian: “Surinams”
  • Latin: “Surinamia”
  • Latvian: “Surinama”
  • Ligurian: “Suriname”
  • Limburgan: “Suriname”
  • Lingala: “Suriname”
  • Lingala: “Surinamɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Suriname”
  • Literary Chinese: “蘇利南”
  • Lithuanian: “Surinamas”
  • Livvi: “Surinam”
  • Lojban: “surinam”
  • Lombard: “Suriname”
  • Low German: “Republyk Suriname”
  • Low German: “Surinam”
  • Low German: “Suriname”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Surinam”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Suriname”
  • Luxembourgish: “Surinam”
  • Luxembourgish: “Suriname”
  • Macedonian: “Суринам”
  • Madurese: “Suriname”
  • Maithili: “सूरीनाम”
  • Malagasy: “Sorinam”
  • Malagasy: “Sorinama”
  • Malay: “Surinam”
  • Malay: “Suriname”
  • Malayalam: “സുരിനാം”
  • Maltese: “is-Suriname”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tas-Suriname”
  • Maltese: “Surinam”
  • Maltese: “Suriname”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯨꯔꯤꯅꯥꯃꯦ”
  • Manx: “Soorinam”
  • Manx: “y Toorinam”
  • Manx: “Yn Toorinam”
  • Maori: “Hurināme”
  • Marathi: “सुरिनाम”
  • Mazanderani: “سورینام”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Suriname”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Suriname”
  • Minangkabau: “Suriname”
  • Mingrelian: “სურინამი”
  • Moksha: “Суринам”
  • Mongolian: “Суринам”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سورينام”
  • Navajo: “Haʼaʼaahjí Tółáníinii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “सुरिनाम”
  • Newari: “सुरिनाम”
  • North Ndebele: “Suriname”
  • Northern Frisian: “Suurinam”
  • Northern Sami: “Surinam dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Surinam”
  • Northern Sami: “Suriname dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Suriname”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Surinam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Surinam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Surinam”
  • Norwegian: “Surinam”
  • Novial: “Suriname”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Suriname”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Surinam”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cynewīse Surinenlandes”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Surinam”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Suriname”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Surinenland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Surinland”
  • Oriya: “ସୁରିନାମ”
  • Oromo: “Suriinaam”
  • Ossetian: “Суринам”
  • Pali: “सुरिनाम”
  • Pampanga: “Surinam”
  • Pampanga: “Suriname”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੂਰੀਨਾਮ”
  • Papiamento: “Suriname”
  • Papiamento: “Sürnam”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Surinaem”
  • Persian: “سورینام”
  • Piemontese: “Suriname”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Suriname”
  • Polish: “Surinam”
  • Portuguese: “Guiana Holandesa”
  • Portuguese: “Suriname”
  • Pushto: “سورينام”
  • Pushto: “سورینام”
  • Quechua: “Surinam”
  • Rakhine: “ဆူရာနမ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Surinam”
  • Romanian: “Suriname”
  • Romansh: “Surinam”
  • Romansh: “Suriname”
  • Rundi: “Suriname”
  • Russia Buriat: “Суринам”
  • Russian: “Республика Суринам”
  • Russian: “Суринам”
  • Sakizaya: “Suriname”
  • Samoan: “Suriname”
  • Samogitian: “Sorėnams”
  • Sango: “Surinäm”
  • Sanskrit: “सुरिनाम”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱩᱨᱤᱱᱟᱢ”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱩᱨᱤᱱᱮᱢ”
  • Sardinian: “Repùblica de su Suriname”
  • Sardinian: “Repùbrica de su Suriname”
  • Sardinian: “Suriname”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Suriname”
  • Scots: “Republic o Suriname”
  • Scots: “Suriname”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Suranam”
  • Serbian: “Surinam”
  • Serbian: “Суринам”
  • Serbian: “Суринами”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Surinam”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသျူးရီးၼႃႇမႄႇ”
  • Shona: “Suriname”
  • Sicilian: “Surinami”
  • Silesian: “Surinam”
  • Sindhi: “سورينام”
  • Sinhala: “සුරිනාමය”
  • Sinhala: “සුරිනාම් ජනරජය”
  • Sinhala: “සුරිනාම්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Surinaam tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Surinaam”
  • Slovak: “Surinam”
  • Slovak: “Surinamská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Surinam”
  • Somali: “Surinam”
  • Somali: “Surineym”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سورینام”
  • Spanish: “República de Surinam”
  • Spanish: “Surinam”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Sranankondre”
  • Sundanese: “Suriname”
  • Swahili: “Surinam”
  • Swahili: “Suriname”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Surinam”
  • Swedish: “Surinam”
  • Swiss German: “Suriname”
  • Tagalog: “Surinam”
  • Tagalog: “Suriname”
  • Tajik: “Суринам”
  • Talysh: “Surinam”
  • Tamil: “சுரிநாம்”
  • Tamil: “சுரினாம்”
  • Taroko: “Suriname”
  • Tatar: “Суринам”
  • Telugu: “సూరినామ్”
  • Tetum: “Suriname”
  • Thai: “ซูรินาเม”
  • Thai: “ประเทศซูรินาม”
  • Thai: “ประเทศซูรินาเม”
  • Thai: “สุรินัม”
  • Tibetan: “སུ་རི་ནཱམ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሱሪናም”
  • Tok Pisin: “Surinam”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Suliname”
  • Tumbuka: “Suriname”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “سورينام”
  • Turkish: “Surinam”
  • Turkmen: “Surinam”
  • Udmurt: “Суринам”
  • Uighur: “سۇرىنام”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Суринам”
  • Ukrainian: “Суринам”
  • Ukrainian: “Сурінам”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Surinamska”
  • Urdu: “سرینام”
  • Urdu: “سورینام”
  • Uzbek: “Surinam”
  • Venetian: “Suriname”
  • Veps: “Surinam”
  • Vietnamese: “Surinam”
  • Vietnamese: “Suriname”
  • Vietnamese: “Xu-ri-nam (Suriname)”
  • Vietnamese: “Xu-ri-nam”
  • Vlaams: “Suriname”
  • Vlax Romani: “Suriname”
  • Volapük: “Surinän”
  • Võro: “Suriname”
  • Walloon: “Surinam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Surinam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Suriname”
  • Wayuu: “Surinam”
  • Welsh: “Gwladwriaeth Swrinam”
  • Welsh: “Surinam”
  • Welsh: “Suriname”
  • Welsh: “Swrinam”
  • Western Frisian: “Republyk Surinam”
  • Western Frisian: “Republyk Suriname”
  • Western Frisian: “Surinam”
  • Western Frisian: “Suriname”
  • Western Mari: “Суринам”
  • Western Panjabi: “سورینام”
  • Wolof: “Sirinam”
  • Wolof: “Surinaam”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏里南”
  • Yakut: “Суринам”
  • Yiddish: “סורינאַם”
  • Yoruba: “Surinami”
  • Yoruba: “Sùrìnámù”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇里南”
  • Zeeuws: “Surinaome”
  • Zhuang: “Suriname”
  • Zulu: “i-Suriname”
  • “ma Suliname”
  • “SUR”

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