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Suriname
Standards
Road Traffic:left side
Electricity:
Voltage:127V
Frequency:60 Hz
Plug types:C, F,
TV Systems:
System:NTSC M
DVD-Region: 4
Geography
Location: Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between French Guiana and Guyana
Area:
total: 163,270 sq km
land: 161,470 sq km
water: 1,800 sq km
Climate: tropical; moderated by trade winds
Terrain: mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
Economy
GDP: $3.098 billion (2006 est.)
GDP growth rate: 5% (2006 est.)
GDP per capita: $7,100 (2006 est.)
Inflation rate: 9.5% (2005 est.)
Currency: Surinam dollar (SRD)
Exchange rates: Surinamese dollars per US dollar - 2.7317 (2005), Surinamese guilders per US dollar - 2.7336 (2004), 2.6013 (2003), 2.3468 (2002), note, during 1998, the exchange rate splintered into four distinct rates; in January 1999 the government floated the guilder, but subsequently fixed it when the black-market rate plunged; in January 2004, the government introduced the Surinamese dollar as replacement for the guilder, tied to a US dollar-dominated currency basket
People
Population: 439,117 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 0.2% (2006 est.)
Religions: Hindu 27.4%, Protestant 25.2% (predominantly Moravian), Roman Catholic 22.8%, Muslim 19.6%, indigenous beliefs 5%
Languages: Dutch (official), English (widely spoken), Sranang Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population and is lingua franca among others), Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), Javanese
Government
Capital:
name: Paramaribo
time difference: UTC-3 (2 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Independence: 25 November 1975 (from Netherlands)
Note: Information on Suriname was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Suriname, please visit one of the links below.
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