Geography Of Suriname

Location	Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between French Guiana and Guyana
Geographic coordinates	4 00 N, 56 00 W
Map references	south_america
Area	total: 163,270 sq km water: 1,800 sq km land: 161,470 sq km
Area comparative	slightly larger than Georgia
Land boundaries	total: 1,707 km border countries: Brazil 597 km, French Guiana 510 km, Guyana 600 km
Coastline	386 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Climate	tropical; moderated by trade winds
Terrain	mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
Elevation extremes	lowest point: unnamed location in the coastal plain -2 m highest point: Juliana Top 1,230 m
Natural resources	timber, hydropower, fish, kaolin, shrimp, bauxite, gold, and small amounts of nickel, copper, platinum, iron ore
Land use	arable land: 0.37% permanent crops: 0.06% other: 99.57% (2001)
Irrigated land	490 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards	NA
Environment - current issues	deforestation as timber is cut for export; pollution of inland waterways by small-scale mining activities
Environment - international agreements	party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography note	smallest independent country on South American continent; mostly tropical rain forest; great diversity of flora and fauna that, for the most part, is increasingly threatened by new development; relatively small population, mostly along the coast

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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

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