Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean,
between French Guiana and Guyana

4 00 N, 56 00 W

South America

total: 163,270 sq km
land: 161,470 sq km
water: 1,800 sq km

slightly larger than Georgia

total: 1,707 km
border countries: Brazil 597 km, French Guiana 510 km, Guyana 600 km

386 km

exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

tropical; moderated by trade winds

mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps

lowest point: unnamed location in the coastal plain -2 m
highest point: Wilhelmina Gebergte 1,286 m

timber, hydropower, fish, kaolin, shrimp, bauxite,
gold, and small amounts of nickel, copper, platinum, iron ore

arable land: 0%
permanent crops: 0%
permanent pastures: 0%
forests and woodland: 96%
other: 4% (1993 est.)

600 sq km (1993 est.)

NA

deforestation as timber is cut for
export; pollution of inland waterways by small-scale mining activities

party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Law of the
Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship
Pollution, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

mostly tropical rain forest; great diversity of
flora and fauna that, for the most part, is increasingly threatened by
new development; relatively small population, most of which lives
along the coast