South America

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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, 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 gem lies 15 km from the Atlantic Ocean.

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The region comprises Suriname's three inland administrative districts: Brokopondo, Para and Sipaliwini. The area is part of the vast and is almost entirely covered with tropical rainforest.

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The region of Suriname comprises the three coastal districts between and the western border with : Coronie, Nickerie and Saramacca.

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The region of Suriname comprises four districts: Commewijne, Marowijne, Paramaribo and Wanica. It offers some of the best examples of former colonial plantations, some still in use, others deserted and largely ruined.

Suriname

Latitude of center
4.127° or 4° 7′ 37″ north
Longitude of center
-55.854° or 55° 51′ 14″ west
Population
493,000
Area
163,270 km² (63,039 miles²)
Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (SRD)
Phone code
.sr
Internet domain
597
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425087
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3382998
Wiki­data ID
Q730
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Suriname” goes by many names.
  • 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: “Surinam”
  • Cebuano: “Surinam”
  • Central Bikol: “Surinam”
  • Central Kurdish: “سورینام”
  • Chavacano: “Surinam”
  • Chechen: “Суринам”
  • Cheyenne: “Suriname”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “flavio”
  • Chinese: “Suriname”
  • 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”
  • Dotyali: “सूरीनाम”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Suriname”
  • Dutch: “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: “सूरीनाम”
  • 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”
  • Hindi: “सूरीनाम”
  • Hungarian: “Holland Guyana”
  • Hungarian: “Holland-Guayana”
  • Hungarian: “Surinam”
  • 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”
  • Kabyle: “Surinam”
  • Kabyle: “Tagduda n Surinam”
  • Kalaallisut: “Suriname”
  • Kalmyk: “Суринамудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಸುರಿನಾಮ”
  • Kannada: “ಸುರಿನಾಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Surinam”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Суринам”
  • Kashmiri: “سُرِنام”
  • Kazakh: “Суринам”
  • Khmer: “សូរីណាម”
  • Kikuyu: “Surinamu”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Surinamu”
  • Kirghiz: “Суринам”
  • Korean: “수리남”
  • Kurdish: “Sûrînam”
  • Ladin: “Suriname”
  • Ladino: “Surinam”
  • Lao: “ຊູຣິນາມ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຊູຣິນາມ”
  • 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”
  • Nepali: “सुरिनेम”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Republica de Surinam”
  • 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: “సురినామ్”
  • Telugu: “సూరినామ్”
  • Tetum: “Suriname”
  • Thai: “ซูรินาเม”
  • Thai: “ประเทศซูรินาม”
  • Thai: “ประเทศซูรินาเม”
  • Thai: “สุรินัม”
  • Tibetan: “སུ་རི་ནཱམ།”
  • Tibetan: “སུ་རི་ནེམ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሱሪናም”
  • Tok Pisin: “Surinam”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Suliname”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Suriname”
  • 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: “סורינאם”
  • Yiddish: “סורינאַם”
  • Yoruba: “Surinami”
  • Yoruba: “Sùrìnámù”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇里南”
  • Zeeuws: “Surinaome”
  • Zhuang: “Suriname”
  • Zulu: “i-Suriname”
  • “ma Suliname”
  • “Sorėnams”
  • “SR”
  • “SUR”
  • “Surinam”
  • “Suriname”
  • “सूरीनाम”

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