!!!Suriname: Geography
||Location|Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between French Guiana and Guyana
||Geographic Coordinates|4 00 N, 56 00 W[{GoogleMap location='4.0,-56.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''163,820 sq km\\''land: ''156,000 sq km\\''water: ''7,820 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 163820\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 163819\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 163270\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 163270\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 163820\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 163820''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''1,703 km\\''border countries: ''Brazil 593 km, French Guiana 510 km, Guyana 600 km
||Coastline|386 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''unnamed location in the coastal plain -2 m\\''highest point: ''Juliana Top 1,230 m
||Highest Mountains|__As there is no entry in [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com] we are listing mountain list of [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org] only:__\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Juliana Top 1280 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] 
||Terrain|mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
||Natural Hazards|NA
||Natural Resource|timber, hydropower, fish, kaolin, shrimp, bauxite, gold, and small amounts of nickel, copper, platinum, iron ore
||Land Use|''arable land: ''0.36%\\''permanent crops: ''0.04%\\''other: ''99.6% (2011)
||Climate|tropical; moderated by trade winds
||Irrigated Land|511.8 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|122 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|deforestation as timber is cut for export; pollution of inland waterways by small-scale mining activities
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Paramaribo; Lelydorp; Nieuw Nickerie ; Moengo ; Meerzorg \\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Paramaribo; Lelydorp; Brokopondo; Nieuw Nickerie; Moengo\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/America/Suriname/Geography/Important_Cities]
||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