32 Facts About Suriname

Suriname was inhabited as early as the fourth millennium BC by, various indigenous peoples, including the Arawaks, Caribs, and Wayana.

In 1954, Suriname became one of the constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Suriname continues to maintain close diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties with the Netherlands.

Suriname is considered a culturally Caribbean country, and is a member of the Caribbean Community.

British settlers, who in 1630 founded the first European colony at Marshall's Creek along the Suriname River, spelled the name as "Surinam"; this would long remain the standard spelling in English.

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In 1683, the Society of Suriname was founded by the city of Amsterdam, the Van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck family, and the Dutch West India Company.

In 1954, Suriname became one of the constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with the Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands.

At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Suriname became the smallest independent South American state to win its first ever Olympic medal as Anthony Nesty won gold in the 100-metre butterfly.

Suriname was convicted and sentenced to prison but remained in Suriname.

Republic of Suriname is a representative democratic republic, based on the Constitution of 1987.

President of Suriname is elected for a five-year term by a two-thirds majority of the National Assembly.

Suriname was the main suspect in the court case concerning the December murders, the 1982 assassination of opponents of military rule in Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo.

Suriname receives military funding from the U S Department of Defense.

European Union relations and cooperation with Suriname are carried out both on a bilateral and a regional basis.

Suriname is party to the Cotonou Agreement, the partnership agreement among the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States and the European Union.

On 17 February 2005, the leaders of Barbados and Suriname signed the "Agreement for the deepening of bilateral cooperation between the Government of Barbados and the Government of the Republic of Suriname.

China's South-South cooperation with Suriname has included a number of large-scale infrastructure projects, including port rehabilitation and road construction.

Armed Forces of Suriname have three branches: the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy.

Suriname contains six terrestrial ecoregions: Guayanan Highlands moist forests, Guianan moist forests, Paramaribo swamp forests, Tepuis, Guianan savanna, and Guianan mangroves.

Suriname is situated between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west.

Climate change in Suriname is leading to warmer temperatures and more extreme weather events.

Suriname's democracy gained some strength after the turbulent 1990s, and its economy became more diversified and less dependent on Dutch financial assistance.

Suriname has recently started exploiting some of its sizeable oil and gold reserves.

Suriname has roughly 14 local languages, but Dutch is the sole official language and is the language used in education, government, business, and the media.

In 2004, Suriname became an associate member of the Dutch Language Union.

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Six Maroon languages of Suriname are considered English-based creole languages, and include Saramaccan, Aukan, Aluku, Paramaccan, Matawai and Kwinti.

Suriname won gold in the 100-meter butterfly at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and he won bronze in the same discipline at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Suriname has a national korfball team, with korfball being a Dutch sport.

Suriname has twenty-four radio stations, most of them broadcast through the Internet.

In 2012, Suriname was ranked joint 22nd with Japan in the worldwide Press Freedom Index by the organization Reporters Without Borders.

Suriname is one of the few countries in the world where at least one of each biome that the state possesses has been declared a wildlife reserve.

Suriname is one of the few countries in the world where a synagogue is located next to a mosque.