Suriname in other languages: official name, Paramaribo and districts
Suriname's official name is Republiek Suriname in Dutch, its national language, and Sranankondre in Sranan Tongo; the ISO codes are SR, SUR and 740. The name is given here in 167 languages and variants and Paramaribo in 56, followed by the ten districts.
Official languagesDutch (Nederlands), official; Sranan Tongo (Sranantongo), widely spoken
Checked
- alpha-2
- SR
- alpha-3
- SUR
- numeric
- 740
Republiek Suriname
Ripoliku Sranan
- English
- SurinameRepublic of Suriname
- Capital
- ParamariboParamaribo
ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026. Official language: Wikipedia's Suriname, checked the same day. Flag after the Wikimedia Commons drawing.
Suriname in other languages: list of exonyms
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Afrikaans, Welsh, Estonian, French, Franco-Provençal, West Frisian, Friulian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Jersey Norman French, Limburgish, Lingala, Dutch, Novial, Portuguese, Aromanian, Sardinian, Swahili, Tetum, Võro, Walloon | eng / afr / cym / est / fra / frp / fry / fur / hun / ina / ind / ita / jav / jnf / lim / lin / nld / nov / por / rup / srd / swa / tet / vor / wln | Suriname | same as written |
| Asturian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Cornish, Danish, Lower Sorbian, Basque, Faroese, Finnish, Kven, Galician, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Igbo, Ladin, Maltese, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Quechua, Romansh, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Northern Sami, Spanish, Saterland Frisian, Swedish, Silesian, Turkish, Yucatec Maya, Zazaki, German, Luxembourgish, Low German | ast / bre / cat / ces / cor / dan / dsb / eus / fao / fin / fkv / glg / hrv / hsb / ibo / lld / mlt / nor / oci / pol / que / roh / ron / slk / slv / sme / spa / stq / swe / szl / tur / yua / zza / deu / ltz / nds | Surinam | same as written |
| Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Moldovan, Slovio, Turkmen | aze / crh / gag / kaa / mol / slo / tuk | Surinam / Суринам | Surinam |
| Kinyarwanda, Kirundi | kin / run | Surinamu | same as written |
| Sicilian, Albanian | scn / sqi | Surinami | same as written |
| Aragonese | arg | Surinam, Suriname | same as written |
| Bambara | bam | Sirinamu | same as written |
| Bosnian | bos | Surinam / Суринам / سۆرٖىنام | Surinam |
| Esperanto | epo | Surinamo | same as written |
| Scottish Gaelic | gla | Suranam, Sùranam | same as written |
| Irish | gle | Suranam | same as written |
| Manx | glv | Yn Toorinam | same as written |
| Guarani | grn | Surinã | same as written |
| Haitian Creole | hat | Sirinam | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Súrínam | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Sûrînam | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Surinamia | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Surinama | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Surinamas | same as written |
| Latgalian | ltg | Surinams | same as written |
| Malagasy | mlg | Sorinama | same as written |
| Malay | msa | Suriname / سورينام | Suriname |
| Nahuatl | nah | Surinām | same as written |
| Norman French | nrm | Gùuhianne-de-l’Êt, Suriname | same as written |
| Papiamentu | pap | Sürnam | same as written |
| Kalderash Romani | rmy | Suriname / सुरिनामे | Suriname |
| Samogitian | smg | Sorėnams | same as written |
| Sranan | srn | Sranankondre | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Surinam / Суринам / سۇرىنەم | Surinam |
| Vietnamese | vie | Xu-ri-nam | same as written |
| Volapük | vol | Sürinamän | same as written |
| Wolof | wol | Surinaam | same as written |
| Abkhaz, Abaza, Altai, Avar, Bulgarian, Chuvash, Kabardian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Meadow Mari, Macedonian, Mongolian, Ossetian, Russian, Yakut, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk | abk / abq / alt / ava / bul / chv / kbd / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / mhr / mkd / mon / oss / rus / sah / tyv / udm / xal | Суринам | Surinam |
| Bashkir, Chechen, Serbian | bak / che / srp | Суринам / Surinam | Surinam |
| Rusyn, Ukrainian | rue / ukr | Сурінам | Surinam |
| Belarusian | bel | Сурынам / Surynam | Surynam |
| Kazakh | kaz | Суринам / سۋرينام / Swrïnam | Swrïnam |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Суринам / سۇرئنام / Surinam | Surinam |
| Kurdish (Caucasus) | kmr | Суринам / Sûrînam | Sûrînam |
| Tatar | tat | Суринам / Surinam / سۇرىنام | Surinam |
| Tajik | tgk | Суринам / سورینم / Surinam | Surinam |
| Arabic | ara | سورينام, السورينام | Sūrīnām, as-Sūrīnām |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | سورینام / Surinam | Surinam |
| Sorani Kurdish | ckb | سورینام / Surînam | Surînam |
| Persian | fas | سورینام / Surinâm | Surinâm |
| Western Punjabi, Dari, Urdu | pnb / prs / urd | سورینام | Sūrīnām |
| Pashto | pus | سورينام | Sūrīnām |
| Uyghur | uig | سۇرىنام / Surinam / Суринам | Surinam |
| Dhivehi | div | ސެރިނާމް | Serinām |
| Hebrew | heb | סורינם, סורינאם | Sūrīnam, Sūrīnām |
| Ladino | lad | סורינאם / Surinam | Surinam |
| Yiddish | yid | סורינאַם | Surinam |
| Amharic | amh | ሱሪናም | Surinam |
| Greek | ell | Σουρινάμ | Soyrinám |
| Armenian | hye | Սուրինամ | Sourinam |
| Georgian, Mingrelian | kat / xmf | სურინამი | Surinami |
| Laz | lzz | სურინამი / Surinami | Surinami |
| Hindi | hin | सुरिनाम | Surinām |
| Bengali | ben | সুরিনাম | Surinām |
| Gujarati | guj | સુરિનામ | Surinām |
| Odia | ori | ସୁରିନାମ | Surinām |
| Punjabi | pan | ਸੂਰੀਨਾਮ | Sūrīnām |
| Sinhala | sin | සුරිනාමය | Surināmaya |
| Kannada | kan | ಸುರಿನಾಮ್ | Surinām |
| Malayalam | mal | സുരിനാം | Surināṃ |
| Tamil | tam | சூரினாம், சுரிநாம் | Cūriṉām, Curinām |
| Telugu | tel | సూరీనామ్ | Sūrīnām |
| Chinese | zho | 蘇里南/苏里南 | Sūlǐnán |
| Japanese | jpn | スリナム | Surinamu |
| Korean | kor | 수리나메, 수리남 | Suriname, Surinam |
| Tibetan | bod | སུ་རི་ནེམ། | Su.ri.nem |
| Burmese | mya | ဆူရီနမ် | Sʰuẏinã |
| Thai | tha | ซูรินัม, ซูรินาเม | Sūrinâm, Sūrināmē |
| Khmer | khm | ស៊ូរីណាមី, សួរីនែម | Sūrīṇāmī, Suarīnæm |
Sranan Tongo has a name of its own, Sranankondre; Albanian and Sicilian write Surinami, and Arabic gives the name with and without the article.
Republiek Suriname, Sranankondre, Surinami
The official name is Republiek Suriname in Dutch, the only official language, and the Republic of Suriname in English. The adjective is Surinaams. Sranan Tongo, the creole spoken across the country, calls it Sranankondre, the Surinamese country, or simply Sranan, and the republic Ripoliku Sranan.
The name may go back to the Surinen, an Indigenous people living on the coast when Europeans arrived. British settlers of the 1630s wrote Surinam, and that spelling long remained standard in English; the country became independent from the Netherlands on 25 November 1975 as Suriname. Albanian and Sicilian add a final i, Surinami; Arabic writes سورينام (Sūrīnām).
Paramaribo in other languages
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Esperanto, French, Latvian, Dutch, German, Luxembourgish, Low German, Irish | eng / epo / fra / lav / nld / deu / ltz / nds / gle | Paramaribo | same as written |
| Azerbaijani, Turkmen | aze / tuk | Paramaribo / Парамарибо | Paramaribo |
| Bosnian | bos | Paramaribo / Парамарибо / پارامارٖىبۉ | Paramaribo |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Paramarîbo | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Paramaribum | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Paramaribas | same as written |
| Malay | msa | Paramaribo / ڤاراماريبو | Paramaribo |
| Samogitian | smg | Paramarėbs | same as written |
| Tetum | tet | Paramaribu | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Paramaribo / Парамарибо / پەرەمەرىبا | Paramaribo |
| Bulgarian, Mongolian, Russian | bul / mon / rus | Парамарибо | Paramaribo |
| Bashkir, Serbian | bak / srp | Парамарибо / Paramaribo | Paramaribo |
| Belarusian | bel | Парамарыба / Paramaryba | Paramaryba |
| Kazakh | kaz | Парамарибо / پاراماريبو / Paramarïbo | Paramarïbo |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Парамарибо / پارامارئبو / Paramaribo | Paramaribo |
| Tatar | tat | Парамарибо / Paramaribo / پارامارىبو | Paramaribo |
| Tajik | tgk | Парамарибо / پرمریبا / Paramaribo | Paramaribo |
| Ukrainian | ukr | Парамарібо | Paramaribo |
| Arabic | ara | باراماريبو, براماريبو, برامريبو | Bārāmārībū, Barāmārībū, Barāmarībū |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | پاراماریبو / Paramaribo | Paramaribo |
| Persian | fas | پاراماریبو / Pârâmâribo | Pârâmâribo |
| Pashto | pus | پاراماريبو | Pārāmārībō |
| Uyghur | uig | پارامارىبو / Paramaribo / Парамарибо | Paramaribo |
| Urdu | urd | پاراماریبو | Pārāmārībō |
| Hebrew | heb | פרמריבו | Paramarībō |
| Yiddish | yid | פּאַראַמאַריבאָ | Paramaribo |
| Amharic | amh | ፓራማሪቦ | Paramaribo |
| Greek (Demotic) | ell | Παραμαρίμπο | Paramarímpo |
| Greek (Katharevousa) | ell | Παραμαρῖμπο | Paramarĩmpo |
| Armenian | hye | Պարամարիբո | Paramaribo |
| Georgian | kat | პარამარიბო | Paramaribo |
| Hindi | hin | पारामरीबो | Pārāmarībo |
| Nepali | nep | पारामारिबो | Pārāmāribo |
| Bengali | ben | পারামারিবো | Pārāmāribo |
| Punjabi | pan | ਪਾਰਾਮਾਰੀਬੋ | Pārāmārībo |
| Kannada | kan | ಪರಮಾರಿಬೊ, ಪರಮರಿಬೊ | Paramāribo, Paramaribo |
| Malayalam | mal | പാരമാറിബോ | Pāramāṟibō |
| Tamil | tam | பராமரிபோ | Parāmaripō |
| Telugu | tel | పరామరిబొ | Parāmaribo |
| Chinese | zho | 帕拉馬里博/帕拉马里博 | Pàlāmǎlǐbó |
| Japanese | jpn | パラマリボ | Paramaribo |
| Korean | kor | 파라마리보 | Paramaribo |
| Thai | tha | ปารามาริโบ | Pārāmāribō |
| Khmer | khm | ប៉ារាម៉ារីបុ | Bārāmārību |
Russian and most Cyrillic languages write Парамарибо; Belarusian has Парамарыба, Latin Paramaribum.
The ten districts of Suriname and their capitals
Suriname is divided into ten districts (districten), coded SR-BR to SR-WA in ISO 3166-2. Sipaliwini, the vast interior, has no capital of its own and is run from Paramaribo.
| ISO 3166-2 | Dutch | English | Administrative centre | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts districten10 | ||||
| SR-BR | District Brokopondo | Brokopondo | BrokopondoBrokopondo | |
| SR-CM | District Commewijne | Commewijne | Nieuw AmsterdamNieuw Amsterdam | |
| SR-CR | District Coronie | Coronie | TotnessTotness | |
| SR-MA | District Marowijne | Marowijne | AlbinaAlbina | |
| SR-NI | District Nickerie | Nickerie | Nieuw NickerieNieuw Nickerie | |
| SR-PR | District Para | Para | OnverwachtOnverwacht | |
| SR-PM | District Paramaribo | Paramaribo | ParamariboParamaribo | |
| SR-SA | District Saramacca | Saramacca | GroningenGroningen | |
| SR-SI | District Sipaliwini | Sipaliwini | Paramariboadministered from Paramaribo | |
| SR-WA | District Wanica | Wanica | LelydorpLelydorp | |
Codes and ISO names: ISO 3166-2:SR on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, as tabulated in Wikipedia's ISO 3166-2:SR, checked 28 October 2026. The district borders date from 1985 (Wikipedia, Districts of Suriname); Sipaliwini: Wikipedia, Sipaliwini District, checked the same day.
Districts and their capitals
The ten districts took their present shape in 1983, when Saramacca, Sipaliwini and Wanica were created from older units; the last border changes followed in 1985. Several capitals carry Dutch or English place names, among them Nieuw Amsterdam, Groningen and Totness.
Questions about the names and districts of Suriname
What is the official name of Suriname?
Republiek Suriname in Dutch, the Republic of Suriname in English.
What is the national language of Suriname?
Dutch is the only official language. Sranan Tongo, an English-based creole, is spoken widely across the country.
How many districts does Suriname have?
Ten, coded SR-BR to SR-WA in ISO 3166-2. Sipaliwini is administered directly from Paramaribo.