Suriname
Country in South America
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country on the northern coast of South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. Situated slightly north of the equator, over 90% of its territory is covered by rainforest, the second-highest proportion of forest cover in the world. Suriname is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, French Guiana to the east, Brazil to the south, and Guyana to the west. It is the smallest independent country in South America by both population and territory, with around 612,985 inhabitants in 2021 in an area of approximately 165,940 square kilometres. The capital and largest city is Paramaribo, which is home to roughly half the population.
“Suriname” enters the record as country in South America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Suriname, Country and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Suriname” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Suriname, Country and South provides the most credible route into that argument.
Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2021.
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