Paramaribo District
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Map of Suriname showing Paramaribo district |
This article is about the district of Paramaribo. For information on the city, see Paramaribo.Paramaribo is a district of
Suriname, encompassing the city of Paramaribo and the surrounding area.
Paramaribo district has a
population of 213,840 and an
area 183 km².
The area was first
colonised by the
British in the
1600s with the construction of
Fort Willoughby. This fort was later taken by the
Netherlands and renamed
Fort Zeelandia. 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.
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