Suriname
Suriname is a small republic on the northeast coast of South America. It prides itself on its thoroughly multi-ethnic culture, a colourful blend of indigenous Indian traditions and those of its former Dutch colonisers and the African, Javanese and Hindustani workers they once brought with them.Tap on the map to travel |
Popular Destinations
Paramaribo
Paramaribo, often called Par'bo, is the lively capital and only city of the sparsely inhabited country of Suriname.Surinamese Rainforest
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The Surinamese Rainforest region comprises Suriname's three inland administrative districts: Brokopondo, Para and Sipaliwini.
East Coast
Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The East Coast region of Suriname comprises four districts: Commewijne, Marowijne, Paramaribo and Wanica.
Destinations
West Coast
Photo: WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The West Coast region of Suriname comprises the three coastal districts between Paramaribo and the western border with Guyana: Coronie, Nickerie and Saramacca.
Suriname
- Type: Country with 493,000 residents
- Description: country in South America
- Languages: Dutch, English, Sranan Tongo, Caribbean Hindustani and Javanese
- Neighbors: Brazil, France, French Guiana and Guyana
- Categories: sovereign state, national geopolitical entity and locality
- Location: South America
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Latitude of centre
4.127° or 4° 7' 37" northLongitude of centre
-55.854° or 55° 51' 14" westPopulation
493,000Area
163,270 km² (63,039 miles²)Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)Capital
ParamariboCurrency
Dollar (SRD)Phone code
.srInternet domain
597OpenStreetMap ID
node 432425087OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
3382998Wikidata ID
Q730Suriname Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Surinam
- Achinese: Suriname
- Afar: Surinam
- Afrikaans: Suriname
- Akan: Suriname
- Albanian: Surinami
- Amharic: Suriname
- Amharic: ሱሪናም
- Amis: Suriname
- Angika: सूरीनाम
- Arabic: Surinam
- Arabic: سورينام
- Aragonese: Surinam
- Armenian: Սուրինամ
- Arpitan: Suriname
- Assamese: ছুৰিনাম
- Asturian: Surinam
- Awadhi: सूरिनाम
- Aymara: Suriname
- Azerbaijani: Surinam
- Balinese: Suriname
- Bambara: Surinami
- Bashkir: Суринам
- Basque: Surinam
- Bavarian: Suriname
- Belarusian: Сурынам
- Bengali: সুরিনাম
- 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: SR
- Dutch: SUR
- Dutch: Suriname
- Dzongkha: སུ་རི་ནཱམ
- Eastern Mari: Суринам
- Egyptian Arabic: سورينام
- English: Dutch Guiana
- English: Republic of Surinam
- English: Republic of Suriname
- English: SUR
- English: Surinam
- English: Surrinam
- English: sr
- Esperanto: Respubliko Surinamo
- Esperanto: SR
- Esperanto: Surinamo
- Estonian: Suriname
- Estonian: Suriname Vabariik
- Ewe: Suriname
- Ewe: Suriname nutome
- Extremaduran: Surinam
- Faroese: Surinam
- Fiji Hindi: Suriname
- Finnish: Surinam
- Finnish: Suriname
- Finnish: Surinamen tasavalta
- French: République du Surinam
- French: République du Suriname
- French: SR
- French: Surinam
- French: Suriname
- Fulah: Surinaam
- Gagauz: Surinam
- Galician: Surinam
- Galician: Suriname
- Ganda: Surinaamu
- Georgian: სურინამი
- German: Surinam
- German: Suriname
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Suriname
- Goan Konkani: Suriname
- Goan Konkani: सूरीनाम
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌿𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼𐌰
- Greek: Σουρινάμ
- Guarani: Surinam
- Guarani: Surinẽ
- Guianese Creole French: Sirinanm
- Guianese Creole French: Sourinanm
- Gujarati: સુરીનામ
- Haitian: Repiblik Sirinam
- Haitian: Sirinam
- Hakka Chinese: Suriname
- Hausa: Suriname
- Hebrew: גיאנה ההולנדית
- Hebrew: סורינאם
- Hebrew: סורינם
- Hindi: सुरिनाम
- Hindi: सूरीनाम
- Hungarian: Holland-Guayana
- Hungarian: Holland Guyana
- Hungarian: Surinam
- Hungarian: Suriname
- Hungarian: Surinamei Köztársaság
- Hungarian: Surinám
- Icelandic: Súrínam
- Ido: Surinam
- Igbo: Suriname
- Iloko: Surinam
- Inari Sami: Suriname
- Inari Sami: Suriname täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Suriname
- Interlingua: Suriname
- Interlingue: Surinam
- Irish: Suranam
- Italian: Guiana olandese
- 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
- Kashmiri: سُرِنام
- Kazakh: Суринам
- Khmer: សូរីណាម
- Kikuyu: Surinamu
- Kinyarwanda: Surinamu
- Kirghiz: Суринам
- Korean: 수리남
- Kurdish: Sûrînam
- Ladin: Suriname
- Ladino: Surinam
- Lao: 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: Repubblika tas-Suriname
- Maltese: Surinam
- Maltese: Suriname
- Maltese: is-Suriname
- Manipuri: ꯁꯨꯔꯤꯅꯥꯃꯦ
- 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
- Mongolian: ꯁꯨꯔꯤꯅꯥꯃꯦ
- Moroccan Arabic: سورينام
- Navajo: Haʼaʼaahjí Tółáníinii Bikéyah
- Nepali: सुरिनाम
- Nepali: सुरिनेम
- Newari: सुरिनाम
- North Ndebele: Suriname
- Northern Frisian: Suurinam
- Northern Sami: Surinam
- Northern Sami: Surinam dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Suriname
- Northern Sami: Suriname dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Surinam
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Surinam
- Norwegian Bokmål: Surinam
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Surinam
- Novial: Suriname
- Occitan (post 1500): Surinam
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Suriname
- 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: Suriname
- Saterfriesisch: 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
- Sinhala: සුරිනාම් ජනරජය
- Skolt Sami: Surinaam
- Skolt Sami: Surinaam tääʹssväʹldd
- 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: 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): 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
- Yiddish: סורינאם
- Yoruba: Surinami
- Yoruba: Sùrìnámù
- Yue Chinese: 蘇里南
- Zeeuws: Surinaome
- Zhuang: Suhlinanz
- Zhuang: Suriname
- Zulu: i-Suriname
- Historic: Dutch Guiana
- Nederlandisch Guyana
- Nederlandsch Guyana
- Netherlands Guiana
- Republiek van Suriname
- ma Suliname
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