Neighbouring Suriname also claims the territory east of Guyana's New River, a largely uninhabited area of some in southeast Guyana.

All of the area west of the Essequibo River claimed by Venezuela ; Suriname claims area east of the New Upper Courantyne.

Suriname also claims an area in Guyana between New ( Upper Courantyne ) and Courantyne / Koetari Rivers ( all headwaters of the Courantyne ).

Using handheld GPS devices and programs like Google Earth, members of the Trio Tribe, who live in the rainforests of southern Suriname, map out their ancestral lands to help strengthen their territorial claims.

Ferry services link the primary roads in the coastal area, and Guyana with Suriname.

With an area of approximately, Uruguay is the second-smallest nation in South America by area, after Suriname.

The history of Suriname dates from 3000 BC when Native Americans first inhabited the area.

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 US company Alcoa had a claim on a large area in Suriname where bauxite, from which aluminium can be made, was found.

The Geography of Guyana comprises the physical characteristics of the country in Northern South America and part of Caribbean South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Suriname and Venezuela, with a land area of approximately 214, 970 square kilometres.

The area changed hands often between the English and Dutch but it was in Dutch hands again in 1667 and under Dutch rule from 1815 until the independence of Suriname in 1975.

Several hundred thousand reside in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, St. Vincent, and French Guiana, an example being approximately 300, 000 Wayuu Arawak living in Colombia, with 150, 000 Wayuu in the neighbouring area of Venezuela.

Paramaribo is a district of Suriname, encompassing the city of Paramaribo and the surrounding area.

The area, and the city of Paramaribo, switched between Dutch and British control until the Treaty of Breda at the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War ceded all of Suriname to the Dutch.

It covers the area of the nations of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands, and Venezuela.

Under the name Curaçao, the team played its first international game in 1934 ( against Suriname, which was then still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well ) and continued to use the name Curaçao until the qualifications for the World Championships of 1958, although the name of the area had changed from " Territory of Curaçao " to " Netherlands Antilles " in 1948.

At one time the Jungle Commando controlled a large area in East Suriname.

Missionary work was carried on in many lands, and The Pilgrim Holiness Church extended beyond the United States and Canada to the following places: South Africa, including Natal, Transvaal, Cape Province, and Orange Free State ; Swaziland ; Mozambique ; Zambia ; the Caribbean area, including Grand Cayman, Jamaica, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Saba, St. Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, Barbuda, Barbados, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, and Curaçao ; Guyana ; Suriname ; Brazil ; Peru ; Mexico ; Philippine Islands ; and England.

Wageningen is a community resort and an agricultural place in the Republic of Suriname and located in the coastal area of West Suriname in the Nickerie District, at the harbour of the Nickerie river across the right estuary of the Maratakka river.

In 2008 a non profit organization Jayadevi Arts Inc ( JAI ) preserve, present, unite, educate, and promote the arts and culture of Indo-Caribbean communities from Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica, Suriname, and other parts of the Caribbean living in the South Florida area.

* territorial dispute between Suriname and French Guiana

French Guiana is an overseas region of France, located on the northern coast of South America between Suriname and Brazil.

Northern South America and part of Caribbean South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Brazil and Suriname

Suriname is located in northern South America and is part of Caribbean South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between French Guiana and Guyana.

In October 2002, Alcoa and BHP Billiton signed a letter of intent as the basis for new joint ventures between the two companies, in which Alcoa will take part for 55 % in all bauxite mining activities in West Suriname.

The Armed Forces of Suriname were engaged in a domestic war, against a few hundred freedom fighters who named themselves " Jungle Commandos " led by Ronnie Brunswijk between 1986 and 1992.

The return to Suriname from French Guiana of about 8, 000 refugees of the 1986 – 91 civil war between the military and domestic insurgents has improved relations with French authorities.

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 ).

Examples include India (" cleft " between its Hindu majority and large Muslim minority ), Ukraine (" cleft " between its Eastern Rite Catholic-dominated western section and its Orthodox-dominated east ), France ( cleft between Sub-Saharan African, in the case of French Guiana ; and the West ), Benin, Chad, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo ( all cleft between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa ), Guyana and Suriname ( cleft between Hindu and Sub-Saharan African ), China ( cleft between Sinic, Buddhist, in the case of Tibet ; and the West, in the case of Hong Kong and Macau ), and the Philippines ( cleft between Islam, in the case of Mindanao ; Sinic, and the West ).

A contemporary description of the war between the Maroons and the plantation owners in Suriname can be found in Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman.

The Dutch initially accepted the new government, however, relations between Suriname and the Netherlands collapsed when 15 members of the political opposition were killed by the army on December 8, 1982, in Fort Zeelandia.

There is also a regular coach service between Georgetown and Boa Vista in Brazil, and once-daily connections to Paramaribo, Suriname via a ferry crossing on the Courantyne River.

In the successive administrations headed by Marijnen, Cals and Zijlstra between 24 July 1963 and 5 April 1967 he was Deputy Prime Minister with additional responsibility for matters concerning Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.

During the Suriname Guerrilla War ( 1986 – 1990 ) between the Surinamese military regime, headed by Dési Bouterse, and the Surinamese Liberation Army, a guerrilla group better known as the Jungle Commando, led by Bouterse's former bodyguard Ronnie Brunswijk, soldiers of Bouterse executed on 29 November 1986, at least 39 villagers of Moiwana.

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.

* Litani ( Maroni ) ( or Itany ), a river forms part of the boundary between Suriname and French Guiana

It is now possible to travel overland to Suriname by taking the ferry on the Guyana side at Moleson Creek and crossing the Corentyne River over to Suriname at South Drain.

There is also a ferry linking Guyana and Suriname crossing the Corentyne River from Springlands ( at Corriverton in Guyana ) to Nieuw Nickerie, a town in Suriname.

Several rivers run through it, including the Suriname River, Nickerie River and Maroni or Marowijne River.

The Jules Wijdenbosch Bridge over the Suriname River near Paramaribo.

The Coppename Bridge over the Coppename River near Boskamp, Suriname | Boskamp.

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

Colored lithograph printed circa 1840-1850, digitally restored. Maroon village, Suriname River, 1955

Paramaribo ( nickname: Par ′ bo ) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District.

The city is located on the Suriname River, approximately inland from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Paramaribo district.

The Jules Wijdenbosch Bridge, which is part of the East-West Link, connects Paramaribo with Meerzorg on the other side of the Suriname River.

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

The 1899 arbitration award settling the British Guiana — Venezuela border made reference to the border with Suriname as continuing to the source of the Courantyne River, which it named as the Kutari River.

Commewijne is a district of Suriname, located on the right bank of the Suriname River.