Location: South America
Capital: Paramaribo (216.000 inhab.)
Population: 417,000
Area: 163,820 km2
Coin: 1 Suriname guilder = 100 cents
Languages: Dutch
Religions: Hindu, Protestant, Moslem, Roman Catholic
The Independence's Year: 1975
Mountains: Mt.Julianatop (1280 m.), Serra Tumucumaque
Rivers: Marowijne, Suriname, Saramacca, Coppename, Corantijn

It is the ex Dutch Guyana, independent from 1975, grasp between French Guyana, Brazil and Guyana it is partially wetted from the Atlantic Ocean.
On a not big surface only 400 thousand inhabitants live (density 3 inhab/ Kmq), almost all live in the capital: Paramaribo.
It has been oppressed by a military dictatorship for the first part of the years '80; from 1987 the democracy and the Republic have been restored.
It is a large sugar cane and rhum producer.

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