Worth knowing
Suriname
Under the Treaty of Breda, each side kept what it had seized in the war. The Dutch held on to Suriname and its sugar plantations, and the English kept the town they had renamed New York.
Where its story happens
Paramaribo, at 5.85°N, 55.20°W. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Suriname
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Suriname, on the north coast of South America, between Guyana and French Guiana. See Suriname on a map.
- It is the only independent country in the Americas where Dutch is the official language.
- It is the smallest independent country in South America.
- Forest covers more than 90% of it, one of the highest shares of any country on Earth.
- In a 1667 peace deal, the Dutch kept this South American land and let England keep what became New York.