Suriname Suriname is located on the northern coast of South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean on the north, French Guiana on the east, Guyana on the west, and Brazil on the south. It occupies 163,270 square kilometers (63,039 square miles) is...
Republic of Suriname Republiek Suriname CAPITAL: Paramaribo FLAG: A yellow star is at the center of five stripes: a broad red band in the middle, two white bands, and a green stripe at the top and bottom. ANTHEM: The Surinaams Volkslied (National...
Suriname POPULATION 436,494 HINDU 27.4 percent PROTESTANT 25.2 percent ROMAN CATHOLIC 22.8 percent MUSLIM 19.6 percent OTHER 5 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Suriname is located on the northern coast of South America between...
Suriname[1], officially the Republic of Suriname, (often misspelled as Surinam, but rectified in most up-to-date dictionaries; in Sranan Tongo Sranan) is a country in northern South America. Suriname was formerly known as Nederlands Guyana, Netherlands...
Suriname's capital city, Paramaribo, is hard to pronounce (the stress is on the third 'a'), but even harder for many people to find in the atlas. A recent AT&T country-listing in the New York Times reportedly filed Suriname under 'Africa', while generations of geography...
Highlights and Key Issues * Improved macroeconomie fundamentals, a pick-up in private sector activity and fiscal discipline are expected to result in GDP growth of about 4.5% in 2008, down from just over 5% this year. In addition, robust international demand for alumina,...
Area: 163,820 sq km (63,251 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 502,000Capital: Paramaribo Head of state and government: President Ronald Venetiaan , assisted by Prime Minister Ram Sardjoe Pres. Ronald Venetiaan continued in 2006 to steer a prudent course through a difficult political landscape in Suriname...
A frog with fluorescent purple markings and 12 kinds of dung beetles were among two dozen new species discovered in the remote plateaus of eastern Suriname, scientists said Monday.The expedition was sponsored by two mining companies hoping to excavate the area for bauxite, the raw...
