Location:
Suriname is the smallest South American country as population and also as surface. It is situated in the north part of South America, opened to Atlantic Ocean in north. Brazil in south, French Guyana in east and Guyana in west are its neighbors.
Area/Surface:
164.000 km²
Population:
560.000 people
Capital:
Paramaribo 245.000 people
Currency:
Suriname gulden
Languages spoken:
Dutch
Religion:
Roman-Catholic, Hinduism, Islamism
Government form:
Republic, Democracy
Time zone:
-3 hours Greenwich time
Cars:
SR
Calling code:
+597
Suriname
Relief, flora, lakes and Suriname agriculture:
Suriname or Dutch Guyana how it was previously called has a relief composed by three different parts. To the ocean, at the coast there is a small and low fertile plain, in the southern part there is a downy area composed by a platform and the third part is covered by a huge area with equatorial forests. In fact, more than 90% of the country’ s surface is covered with equatorial forests. Comparative with its western and eastern neighbors, it has many more lakes and also the largest artificial lake from whole South America. Even though the arable lands are few and the locals work in agriculture and cultivate rice as the main culture plant.
Population, economy, name and other aspects:
Several centuries ago, when it was under British domination, they gave it to the Dutch who gave them in change New Amsterdam which is nothing else than the actual huge city of New York. (Find more journeys on blog.worldlifetimejourneys.com) More than a third from the actual population are Asian people, another third are Creole people and the rest are Indonesians, Chinese and Indigenous people. The most part of the economy is obtained through the extraction and elaboration of bauxite. It obtained the independence from Netherlands in 25 November 1975. The name comes from the same name river which crosses the country from south to north. Visit Suriname!
Beach in exotic Suriname
