New Internationalist, August 1st, 2000
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 students have assumed the country to be somewhere near Indonesia. In fact, it stands on the north-east coast of South America, one of the three non-Hispanic enclaves that make up the Guianas. South American it may be, but Suriname is also one of the most ethnically and culturally mixed countries in the world. The capital's arc...
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