Population is about 581,363 people, the 172nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 13,205 of everyone alive.
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Suriname
Republic of Suriname
South America
ยท South America
0Population
163.82Kkmยฒ of land
$6.36KGDP / person
ParamariboCapital
- ISO codes
- SR ยท SUR
- Density
- 4 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Dutch
- Currency
- Surinamese dollar (SRD)
- Dial code
- +597
- Internet domain
- .sr
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 4.1440ยฐ N, 55.9110ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Surinamer
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $3.7B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Suriname stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
172nd
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world population
Land area
93rd
of 242 ยท 0.11% of world land
GDP per person
130th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
224th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Suriname
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 163,820 kmยฒ, making it the 93rd largest country here - about 5.4 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 4 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Paramaribo, at 5.83ยฐ N, 55.17ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 254,169.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Brazil and Guyana.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Paramaribo.
The currency is the Surinamese dollar (SRD, symbol $).
The official language is Dutch.
Dials on +597 and uses the .sr internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Paramaribo
--:--:--
UTCโ03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Paramaribo
Paramaribo
5.8350ยฐ N, 55.1670ยฐ W
254.17K
2
Cottica
Sipaliwini
3.8500ยฐ N, 54.2333ยฐ W
29.21K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Suriname.