| Geography | Suriname |
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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 land: 161,470 sq km water: 1,800 sq km |
Area - comparative:
 | slightly larger than Georgia |
Land boundaries:
 | total: 1,703 km border countries: Brazil 593 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: 0.36% permanent crops: 0.06% other: 99.58% (2005) |
Irrigated land:
 | 510 sq km (2003) |
Total renewable water resources:
 | 122 cu km (2003) |
Total renewable water resources - per capita:
 | 253,498 cubic meters per capita |
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
 | Total: 0.67 cu km/yr (4%/3%/93%) Per capita: 1,489 cu m/yr (2000) |
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, 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 |
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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