ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

In 1853, gold was discovered in the interior, precipitating border disputes with Brazil and Suriname ( these were later settled in 1891, 1899 and 1915, though a small region of the border with Suriname is still disputed ).

However, the dispute with Suriname was arbitrated by the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea and a ruling in favor of Guyana was announced in September, 2007.

Suriname and Indonesia became independent of the Netherlands in the period of decolonization: Suriname in 1975 and Indonesia in 1945 ( it was not until 16 August 2005 that the Dutch government recognized 1945-and not 1949-as the country's year of independence ).

Suriname was ranked the 124th safest investment destination in the world in the March 2011 Euromoney Country Risk rankings.

In 1976-1977 a 100 km long single track railway was constructed by Morrison-Knudsen Co. in West Suriname from the bauxite containing Bakhuis Mountains to the town of Apoera on the Corantijn river, to transport bauxite by river to processing plants elsewhere.

Suriname elected a new government in May 2000, but until it was replaced, the Wijdenbosch government continued its loose fiscal and monetary policies.

This stretch was constructed as part of the West Suriname Plan.

After the creation of the Statute of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Army was entrusted with the defence of Suriname, while the defence of the Netherlands Antilles was the responsibility of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Since 2002 The Hague co-operates with Suriname and in 2009 a co-operation contract was made with the Moroccan provinces of Nador, Al Hoceima and Taza.

The name was also used in Suriname, where they founded Batavia, Suriname, and in the United States where they founded the city and the town of Batavia, New York.

The European colony in Suriname was founded in the 1650s by Lord Francis Willoughby, the British governor of Barbados.

In 1683 Suriname was sold to the Dutch West India Company.

England controlled Suriname during the Napoleonic Wars from 1799 until 1816, when it was returned to the Dutch.

Present-day Suriname was the home to many distinct indigenous cultures.

On 31 July 1667, the English and Dutch signed the Treaty of Breda, in which for the time being the status quo was respected: the Dutch could keep occupying Suriname and the British the formerly Dutch colony New Amsterdam ( modern day New York ).

Willoughbyland was renamed Suriname.

This arrangement was made official in the Treaty of Westminster of 1674, after the British had regained and again lost Suriname in 1667 and the Dutch regained the colony in 1668.

In 1683 the Society of Suriname was set up, modelled on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert to profit from the management and defence of the Dutch Republic's colony.

Suriname was occupied by the British in 1799, after the Netherlands were incorporated by France, and was returned to the Dutch in 1816, after the defeat of Napoleon.

* Dutch language, spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Maarten, and Sint Eustatius

In 1984, SURALCO, a subsidiary of Alcoa, formed a joint venture with the ( at that time ) Royal Dutch Shell-owned Billiton Company, which did not process the bauxite it mined in Suriname.

The Dutch relationship continues to be an important factor in the economy, with the Dutch insisting that Suriname undertake economic reforms and produce specific plans acceptable to the Dutch for projects on which aid funds could be spent.

In 2003, Suriname joined the Nederlandse Taalunie ( Dutch Language union ).

Many streets are named after places in the Netherlands East Indies ( as well as other former Dutch colonies such as Suriname ) and there is a sizable " Indo " ( i. e. mixed Dutch-Indonesian ) community.

In many Dutch speaking areas, such as Flanders and Suriname, the pronunciation is used at all times.

In 1712, French Admiral Jacques Cassard embarked on an expedition that raided British-held Montserrat and a series of Dutch colonial outposts, including St. Eustatius, Curaçao, and Suriname.

Notwithstanding Spanish hostility, the Dutch West India Company still considered the Virgin Islands to have an important strategic value, as they were located approximately halfway between the Dutch colonies in South America ( now Suriname ) and the most important Dutch settlement in North America, New Amsterdam ( now New York City ).

In Suriname, a former Dutch colony, Dutch-style pea soup is eaten as a street food.

* Suriname, from the Dutch control, in 1975

Many of the Dutch settlements were lost or abandoned by the end of that century, but the Netherlands managed to retain possession of Suriname until it gained independence in 1975, as well as the former Netherlands Antilles, of which the islands remain within the Kingdom of the Netherlands today.

This conflict ended with the Treaty of Breda in which the Dutch gave up their claim to New Netherland in exchange for Suriname.

The Dutch traded with the Indian peoples and, as in Suriname, established sugar plantations worked by African slaves.

While the coast remained under Dutch control, the English established plantations west of the Suriname River.

On July 31, 1667, under the Treaty of Breda the Dutch offered New Netherland ( including New Amsterdam, modern-day New York City ) in exchange for their sugar factories on the coast of Suriname.

The first Europeans who came to Suriname were Dutch traders who visited the area along with other parts of the South America's ' Wild Coast.

The Netherlands is also home to a significant Hindu minority, mostly made up of migrants who came from former colony Suriname after its independence.

The treaty stipulated that New York ( formerly New Netherland ) would henceforth be an English possession and that Suriname, captured by the Dutch in 1667, would remain their colony, confirming the status quo of 1667.

In 1663 she visited an English sugar colony on the Suriname River, on the coast east of Venezuela ( a region later known as Suriname ).

Robert Schomburgk's 1840 commission also included a survey of the colony's eastern boundary with the Netherlands ' colony of Suriname, now the independent nation of Suriname.

The remaining colony, Surinam, became the only Dutch Guiana, and remained under Dutch control until its independence as Suriname in 1975.

After the Third Anglo-Dutch War, England ceded the colony of Suriname, in exchange for New Amsterdam.

The colony that remained was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands until 1975, when it became independent as the Republic of Suriname.

Although the Dutch colony of Surinam has always been officially known as Surinam or Suriname, in both Dutch and English, the colony was often unofficially and semi-officially referred to as Dutch Guiana ( Dutch: Nederlands Guiana ) in the 19th and 20th century, in an analogy to British Guiana and French Guiana.

Some people of Javanese descent in Suriname ( the Dutch colony of Suriname until 1975 ) speak a creole descendant of the language.

The condition implied that New Netherland, retaken by Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest in 1673, would henceforth again be an English possession and that Suriname, captured by the Dutch in 1667, would remain their colony, legalising the status quo of 1667.

Since this language is shared between the Dutch -, Javanese -, Hindustani -, and Chinese-speaking communities, most Surinamese speak it as a lingua franca, both the Surinamese in Suriname, a former Dutch colony, as well as the immigrants of Surinamese origin in the Netherlands.

Portions of Suriname, a former Dutch colony, are antipodal to Sulawesi, an Indonesian island spelled Celebes when it was part of the Netherlands East Indies.

This colony was merged with the colonies Curaçao and Dependencies ( the ABC islands ) and Suriname with a capital in Paramaribo.

After being a hereditary fief in the possession of the Van Peere family, the colony was governed by the Society of Berbice in the second half of the colonial period, akin to the neighbouring colony of Suriname, which was governed by the Society of Suriname.