Suriname Resorts

The resort (ressort) is the second tier of Suriname, below the ten districts. The word is Dutch, and means an administrative area rather than a place to stay. There are 62 of them, from city neighbourhoods a couple of kilometres across to rainforest areas larger than some countries' provinces.

The quiz: Name to place, on the map
Grouped by: District: the ten of the country
In the game: 62 resorts

Start

What you are looking at

The resorts of Suriname, as the national statistics office and the electoral council use them. They are the units the census counts and the districts are made of, and they are what a Surinamese address is placed by.

They are very uneven. Sipaliwini has only six, and each is a huge area of forest: Tapanahony, Kabalebo and Coeroenie are the three largest, and each is bigger than a whole district on the coast. Paramaribo is the opposite: twelve resorts in a district of a few hundred square kilometres, which at country scale are specks on the Suriname river, so zooming in is the way to reach them.

Two names appear twice. There is a Centrum in Paramaribo, the old town, and another in Brokopondo; and a Welgelegen in Paramaribo and another in Coronie. The quiz writes the district beside each, so it is clear which you are asked for.

The groups are the districts, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. Each district answers under the same name in Suriname Districts.

How to place one

Pick one district and learn it. Coronie has only three, and Nickerie five, so they are the quickest to finish. Paramaribo has twelve and Wanica seven.
Start with the big ones in the interior. Tapanahony is in the south east, Kabalebo in the west, and Coeroenie between them along the southern border.
Follow the coast. From the Corantijn river in the west, Nieuw Nickerie, Totness, Groningen, Paramaribo, Nieuw Amsterdam and Albina run in order along the sea and the rivers to the Marowijne in the east.
Learn the capital last. The twelve resorts of Paramaribo are small and close together, with Centrum in the middle, and are easiest to recall as neighbourhoods along the river.

Every resort, by district

Nickerie5 resorts: Groot Henar, Nieuw Nickerie, Oostelijke Polders, Wageningen, Westelijke Polders
Coronie3 resorts: Johanna Maria, Totness, Welgelegen (Coronie)
Saramacca6 resorts: Calcutta, Groningen, Jarikaba, Kampong Baroe, Tijgerkreek, Wayambo
Wanica7 resorts: De Nieuwe Grond, Domburg, Houttuin, Koewarasan, Kwatta, Lelydorp, Saramacca Polder
Paramaribo12 resorts: Beekhuizen, Blauwgrond, Centrum (Paramaribo), Flora, Latour, Livorno, Munder, Pontbuiten, Rainville, Tammenga, Weg Naar Zee, Welgelegen (Paramaribo)
Commewijne6 resorts: Alkmaar, Bakkie, Margaretha, Meerzorg, Nieuw Amsterdam, Tamanredjo
Marowijne6 resorts: Albina, Galibi, Moengo, Moengo Tapu, Patamacca, Wanhatti
Para5 resorts: Bigi Poika, Carolina, Para Noord, Para Oost, Para Zuid
Brokopondo6 resorts: Brownsweg, Centrum (Brokopondo), Klaaskreek, Kwakoegron, Marshallkreek, Sarakreek
Sipaliwini6 resorts: Boven Coppename, Boven Saramacca, Boven Suriname, Coeroenie, Kabalebo, Tapanahony

Worked examples

Tapanahony

The biggest of them

Tapanahony is the largest resort in Suriname, in the south east of Sipaliwini between the Tapanahony river and the border with French Guiana. It is bigger than Paramaribo, Wanica, Para and Commewijne put together many times over.

Centrum (Paramaribo)

The old town

Centrum is the historic centre of the capital, with the wooden colonial buildings that earned Paramaribo its World Heritage listing. Brokopondo has a Centrum too, a very different place in the interior, which is why both carry their district in the quiz.

Albina

The town on the border

Albina lies on the Marowijne river in Marowijne, across the water from Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in French Guiana, and the crossing there is the one between the two countries.