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The following is a list of flags present in Suriname.
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The following is a list of flags present in Suriname.
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1975-Today | Flag of Suriname | A horizontal triband of green (top and bottom) and red (double width) with large white border with the large yellow five-pointed star centered on the red band. |
 | 1975-Today | Flag of Suriname (Vertical) |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1975-Today | Presidential Flag of Suriname | A horizontal triband of green (top and bottom) and red (double width) with large white border with the coat of arms centered on the red band. |
 | 1975-1988 | Flag of the Prime Minister of Suriname | A white field with a golden border and the coat of arms in the center. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1975-Today | Flag of The People's Armed Forces of Suriname | a horizontal tricolour of blue, red and blue with the large yellow five-pointed star centered on the red band. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1848 | Proposed Flag of Dutch Suriname | The Dutch tricolour with the coat of arms in the center. |
 | 1975 | Proposed Flag of Suriname | a red field with a green border and a white bordered red cross with 4 black 5-pointed stars. |
 | 1975 | Proposed Flag of Suriname | a green field with a red triangle with a yellow 5-pointed star centered on a green diamond in the center. |
 | 1975 | Proposed Flag of Suriname | a green field with a red triangle with a yellow 5-pointed star in the center. |
 | 1975 | Proposed Flag of Suriname | A horizontal triband of green (top and bottom) and red (double width) with large white border with the large black five-pointed star centered on a white disc centered on the red band. |
 | 1975 | Proposed Flag of Suriname | A horizontal triband of green (top and bottom) and red (double width) with large yellow border with the coat of arms centered on the red band. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1593-1629 | Flag of Habsburg Spain | A red saltire resembling two crossed, roughly-pruned (knotted) branches, on a white field. |
| Royal Flag | |||
 | 1593-1629 | Royal Flag of Philip II of Spain | A red field with the royal coat of arms in the center. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1650-1651 | Flag of the Commonwealth of England | St George's Cross and an Irish Harp juxtaposed. |
 | 1651-1658 | Flag of the Commonwealth of England | St George's Cross and St Andrew's cross quartered. |
 | 1658-1660 | Flag of The Protectorate | The 1606 Union Jack defaced with an Irish Harp. |
 | 1660-1667 1667-1668 | Flag of the Kingdom of England | a red cross on a white field. |
 | 1799-1801 | Flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain | First version of the Union Jack used in England from 1606 and Scotland from 1707 – the Flags of England and Scotland superimposed. |
 | 1801-1802 1804-1816 | flag of the United Kingdom | A superimposition of the flags of England and Scotland with the Saint Patrick's Saltire (representing Ireland). |
| Lord Protector's Flag | |||
 | 1653-1659 | Standard of the Lord Protector | The cross of St. George quartered with the cross of St. Andrew and the Irish Harp, and surmounted by an escutcheon with Cromwell's personal coat of arms. |
| Royal Flags | |||
 | 1660-1667 1667-1668 | Royal Standard of the House of Stuart | A banner of the Royal Coat of Arms of James I, first and fourth quarters representing England and the English claim to the French throne, second quarter representing Scotland, third quarter representing Ireland (This is the first time that Ireland has been represented on the Royal Standard). |
 | 1799-1801 | Royal Standard of Great Britain under the House of Hanover | A banner of the Royal Coat of Arms of Great Britain, first quarter representing England and Scotland, second quarter representing the British claim to the French throne, third quarter representing Ireland, fourth quarter representing the Electorate of Hanover. |
 | 1801-1802 1804-1816 | Royal Standard of the United Kingdom | A banner of the Royal Arms from the creation of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801; first and fourth quarters for England and Wales, second Scotland, third Ireland, with an inescutcheon for the Electorate of Hanover. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1795-1799 1802-1804 | Flag of the French First Republic | a vertical tricolour of blue, white and red. |
| Netherlands under French Rule | |||
 | 1795-1799 1802-1804 | Flag of the Batavian Republic | A horizontal triband of red, white and blue with the Republic's emblem in the canton. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1667 1668-1795 | The Prince's Flag | A horizontal Tricolour of orange, white and blue. |
 | 1667 1668-1796 | States Flag | A horizontal Tricolour of Red, White and Blue. The blue is a lighter shade than that of the current flag. |
 | 1816-1975 | Flag of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of the Netherlands | A horizontal Tricolour of Red, White and Blue. |
| Royal Flags | |||
 | 1816–1908 | Royal Standard of the Monarch | The colours of the flag of the Netherlands with the royal coat of arms (without the mantle). |
 | 1908–1975 | Royal Standard of the Monarch | A square orange flag, divided in four quarters by a nassau-blue cross with the small coat of arms of the Kingdom, surmounted by a royal crown and surrounded by the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of William. Each quarter shows a bugle-horn which originates in arms of the Principality of Orange. |
| Colonial Flags | |||
 | 1920–1966 | Governor's standard of Dutch Guyana | National tricolour, with in the red stripe three white balls. |
 | 1966–1975 | Standard of the governor of Suriname | A white flag with the flag of the Netherlands striped across both the top and the bottom, and the flag of Suriname in the centre. |
 | 1959-1975 | Flag of Suriname | A White Field with 5 five-pointed stars (black, white, brown, red and yellow) in the center. |
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. Suriname is a developing country with a medium level of human development; its economy is heavily dependent on its abundant natural resources, namely bauxite, gold, petroleum, and agricultural products. Suriname is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the United Nations, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Politics of Suriname take place in a framework of a representative democratic assembly-independent republic, whereby the president of Suriname is the head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. The executive power is dependent on the Parliament in theory. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
The flag of Suriname was legally adopted on 25 November 1975, upon the independence of Suriname from the Netherlands.
Suriname competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004.
Guadeloupe, an overseas region and department of France located in the Caribbean, has no flag with official status other than the French national flag.
The coat of arms of Suriname was adopted on November 25, 1975. The Latin motto reads Justitia – Pietas – Fides. It consists of two indigenous men carrying a shield; a trade ship on the water representing Suriname's colonial past as a source of cash crops and its present day involvement in international commerce; the royal palm represents both the rainforest that covers two-thirds of the country and the country's involvement in agribusiness; the diamond represents the mining industry; the star symbolizes the five continents from which the inhabitants of Suriname immigrated.
Suriname first participated at the Olympic Games in 1960, and has sent athletes to compete in most Summer Olympic Games since then. The nation missed the 1964 Games, and also participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Suriname has never participated in the Winter Olympic Games. The country has won two Olympic medals, both by swimmer Anthony Nesty.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Suriname:
Suriname sent a delegation of four people to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China: two athletes (Jurgen Themen and Kirsten Nieuwendam and two swimmers who participated in four distinct events. The appearance of Suriname at Beijing marked its tenth Olympic appearance, which included every Olympic games since the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and excluded the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Its four athletes did not advance past the first round in each of their events. The Surinamese flag bearer in Beijing was not an athlete, but Anthony Nesty, the only medalist in Surinamese history and the nation's Olympic swimming coach.
Suriname competed at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, held in Singapore from 14 August to 26 August 2010.
SV Excelsior is an amateur football club from the Commewijne District town of Meerzorg, Suriname. The club was founded in 1918 and spent most of its tenure in the top flight of Surinamese football. Recently, the club had been in a dry spell, and spend time in the second tier of Surinamese football, only recently to be promoted back into the Hoofdklasse.
Sporting Vereniging Notch is a Surinamese football club based in Moengo, Marowijne.
Suriname competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's twelfth appearance at the Olympics.
Suriname was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1954 and 1975. The country had full autonomy, except in areas of defence and foreign policy, and participated on a basis of equality with the Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands itself in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country became fully independent as the Republic of Suriname on 25 November 1975.
Suriname competed in the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada from July 10 to 26, 2015.
N.V. Dash F.C. Inter Wanica, referred to as Inter Wanica, is a football club located in Meerzorg, Suriname.
S.V. Walking Boyz Company also SV WBC or WBC, is a Surinamese association football club based in Paramaribo. They have won the Surinamese Hoofdklasse title three times. The club play at the Essed Stadion with a capacity of 3,500 spectators, which is also the National Stadium and is shared with several clubs.
Suriname competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's thirteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics.
