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Suriname, formerly Dutch Guiana, is in north-eastern
South America, between Guyana and French
Guiana. It also shares a border with Brazil, to the
south.
Weather in Suriname
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Suriname.
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Suriname's coastal plains are swampy, changing to savannahs and
forest areas as you move south towards the more densely forested mountainous region.
Floods often arise during Suriname's heaviest rains, between December
and April.
Suriname Airways is the national airline, and there's an
international airport to the south of the capital, at Zanderij.
The capital of Suriname is on the Suriname River, near the
Atlantic Ocean.
French colonists originally settled here in the early 1640s, on the
site of a Native American village.
Briefly the capital of a British dependency in the 1650s, the Dutch
took over control of the area in the 1660s; when the British ceded their part in exchange
for New Amsterdam, now known as New York.
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The Dutch trademark can be seen in the architecture and
construction of canals.
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