| |
| | Suriname Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | Suriname (soo-ruh-NAHM), republic (63,037 sq mi/163,266 sq km; 1996 population 423,615; 2004 estimated population 436,935), NE South America, on the Atlantic Ocean; (cap.) Paramaribo. |
 | | Part of the Guiana region, it is separated from Brazil on the S by the Tumuc-Humac Mountains, from Guyana on the W by the Corantijn River, and from French Guiana on the E by the Maroni River. |
 | | Suriname claims the territory in SE Guyana that lies between the defacto boundary of the Coeroani River (the Upper Corantijn) and Guyanas New River In 1975, Suriname became independent; during this time, about one-third of the Surinamese population emigrated to the Netherlands. |
| www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Suriname.html (565 words) |
|