Saramacca District
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Key facts
- Country
- Suriname
- Capital
- Groningen
- Total
- 3,636 km (1,404 sq mi)
- Density
- 4.807/km (12.45/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC-3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Suriname
- Country
- Suriname
- Located in
- Suriname
- Contains
- Kampong Baroe
- Continent
- South America
- Capital
- Groningen
- Area
- 3636.0
- Shares border with
- Coronie District
- Image
- Tropenmuseum Royal Tropical Institute Objectnumber 20028652 Monument ter nagedachtenis aan de Rev.jpg
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- language used
- Sarnámi Hindustáni
- Commons category
- Saramacca District
- topic's main category
- Category:Saramacca District
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Encyclopedic overview
Saramacca is a district of Suriname, in the north. Saramacca's capital city is Groningen, with other towns and cities including Batavia, Kampong Baroe, Uitkijk, Maho and Boskamp. Saramacca has a population of 17,480 and an area of 3,636 km.
Saramaka is also the name of a group of Maroons who established communities along the Saramacca River having fled slavery.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saramacca District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.