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 ).

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.

Bhojpuri dialects, varieties, and creoles are also spoken in various parts of the world, including Brazil, Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Recently, gold has been discovered in the Brokopondo district, and this has led to many new settlers arriving in the district, both from other parts of Suriname and from the rest of the world.

This species ' native range is tropical South America ; it naturally occurs in Brazil, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname though it has been widely introduced to several countries around the world.

In Trickster Travels ( 2006 ), she describes how the early 16th-century North African Muslim " Leo Africanus " ( Hasan al-Wazzan ) managed to live as a Christian in Italy after he was kidnapped by Christian pirates and also sees his writings as an example of “ the possibility of communication and curiosity in a world divided by violence .” Her book ( in-process ), Braided Histories on 18th-century Suriname studies networks of communication and association among families, both slave and free, on the plantations of Christian and Jewish settlers.

The institution is probably the largest repository of such Amazonic collections in the world, with more than 81, 000 pieces in the archeological collection, including lithic and ceramic artifacts, and more than 14, 000 pieces in the ethnographic collection, including indigenous cultures from Brazil, Africa, Peru and Suriname.

It now has branches around the world and has a disproportional number of adherents among people of Indian ancestry in Suriname and the Netherlands, in comparison with India.

The main reason tourists visit Galibi is to see the turtles, which come from all over the world ( including places as distant as Costa Rica and Australia ) to lay their eggs in Suriname.

Wageningen is well known as the rice centre of Suriname and is located on the world map as 5 ° 46 ' NB, 56 ° 41 ' WL.

This bridge will be the first land crossing ever opened between France and Brazil, and indeed between French Guiana and the rest of the world ( there exists no other bridge crossing the Oyapock River, and no bridge crossing the Maroni River marking the border with Suriname ).

On March 26, 2003, the Central Bank of Suriname ( CBvS ) adjusted the exchange rate of the U. S. dollar.

Aron Mohamed Winter (, English approximation ; born 1 March 1967 in Paramaribo, Suriname ) is a retired Dutch football midfielder and former head coach of Toronto FC.

Lineated Woodpeckers breed March – April in Panama, April – May in Belize, and February – April in Trinidad and Suriname.

In January, 2011, the morning newspaper Dagblad Suriname revealed that some confidants of President Bouterse were put on the payroll of the government.

This follows a review of the situation conducted by the government after a commitment given at the last Caricom Heads of Government conference in Suriname in July 2011.

According to the 2011 census Lohardaga district has a population of 461, 738, roughly equal to the nation of Suriname.

* 1982 – In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed.

Other settlements were established on the Netherlands Antilles, several other Caribbean islands, Suriname and Guyana.

In the Americas, fur ( North America ) and sugar ( South America ) were the most important trade goods, while African settlements traded slaves — mainly destined for the plantations on the Antilles and Suriname — gold, and ivory.

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

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.

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

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.

Ogle is the hub for domestic flights to Guyana's interior and offers once-daily service to the in-town airstrip in Paramaribo, capital of neighboring Suriname.

Guyana & Suriname are the only 2 countries on the ( in-land ) American continent who still drive on the left.

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

Guyana and Suriname also disputed their offshore maritime boundaries.

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

Suriname declared independence in 1975.

Many people from Indonesia and Suriname, and later from other countries as well, moved to the Netherlands, which resulted in the transformation of the country into a multicultural society.

Other countries with large Hindu populations include Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji and the island of Bali.

* 1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname due to pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.

* 1863 – Keti Koti ( Emancipation Day ) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.

Smaller Jain communities exist in Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Fiji, and Suriname.

* Is Mother's Day in Anguilla, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Croatia, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Malta, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.

On 15 December 1954, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, and the Netherlands acceded as equal partners to an overarching Kingdom of the Netherlands as established in the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

* Suriname celebrates its Independence Day on November 25.