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Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America.

Suriname is situated between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west. The southern border is shared with Brazil and the northern border is the Atlantic coast. The southernmost borders with French Guiana and Guyana are disputed along the Marowijne and Corantijn rivers, respectively.

Suriname is the smallest sovereign state in terms of area in South America. Uruguay is second smallest nation of South America in terms of area and smallest in terms of population. The country is the only Dutch-speaking region in the Western Hemisphere that is not a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Suriname has a typical multicultural society with extreme ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity. Suriname's geographical size is just under 165,000 km² (64,000 sq mi), and it has an estimated population of about 470,000 people, most of whom live on the country's north coast.