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Suriname is mostly rolling highlands covered by tropical rain forests. The relatively small population is concentrated along the flat coastal plain, where the use of dikes makes cultivation possible. The people are largely of Asian Indian or mixed African and European ancestry; there is a significant Indonesian minority. Dutch is the official language, although Sranang Tongo, a creole English, is widely spoken. Hinduism, the Roman Catholic and Moravian churches, and Islam are the predominant faiths.
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