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ID: 7015387
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015387
Record Type:
administrative
Paramaribo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 5.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 055 10 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -55.1667
decimal degrees
Note:
English colony was established by Lord Willoughby of Parham in 1651; passed to Dutch 1816; town expanded after WW II owing to industry & tourism; products include paint, cement & margarine.
Names:
Paramaribo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
פראמריבו
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Suriname
(nation) (
P
)
............
Paramaribo
(national district) (
P
)
................
Paramaribo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by French ca. 1640; originally an Amerindian village
town (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
district capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Suriname
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, South America) [7015386]
Sources and Contributors:
פראמריבו..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Paramaribo..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 143
.......................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 143
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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