Category:South America/Suriname/

Coordinates: 5°49′59″N 55°10′01″W 5.833, -55.167

Suriname

Suriname (Dutch Suriname Sarnami Sarnam, Sranan Tongo Sranan), officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America.Suriname is situated between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west. The southern border is shared with Brazil and the northern border is the Atlantic coast. The southernmost border with French Guiana is disputed along the Marowijne river while a part of the disputed maritime boundary with Guyana was arbitrated by the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea on September 20, 2007.Suriname is the smallest sovereign state in terms of area and population in South America. The country is the only Dutch-speaking region in the Western Hemisphere which is not a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Suriname is extremely diverse ethnically, linguistically, and religiously. By percentage, Muslims constitute 20% of Suriname, the highest percentage of Muslims in any country in America. Suriname's geographical size is just under 165,000 km, and it has an estimated population of about 470,000 people.^[1]

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