New Amsterdam (Guyana)
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| Coordinates | 6 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ N , 57 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
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| Country | Guyana | ||
| East Berbice-Corentyne | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | GY-EB | ||
| height | 5 m | ||
| surface | 15 km² | ||
| Residents | 17,000 (2012) | ||
| density | 1,133.3 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1740 | ||
 New Amsterdam City Hall, 1950
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New Amsterdam ( Dutch Nieuw Amsterdam ) is a city in the region East Berbice-Corentyne in Guyana . It is located 100 kilometers from the capital Georgetown and is one of the largest cities in the country with 17,329 inhabitants. It is located about six kilometers upstream from the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Berbice on its right, eastern side. It is also located immediately south of the mouth of the Canje River.
There is an Anglican cathedral in the city .
history
New Amsterdam was originally a Dutch village at Fort Nassau . It was founded around 1740 under the name Fort Sint Andries . The first Nieuw Amsterdam, as it was then called, was about 90 kilometers upstream of the Berbice on the right-hand side. In 1790 it was the seat of the Dutch administration in Guyana, in 1803 it was taken over by the British. In 1831 it lost its capital city status.
economy
New Amsterdam is an economic center of Guyana's coastal agriculture with the cultivation of sugar cane and rice as well as cattle breeding.
Town twinning
Midland in the US state of Texas has been twin town of New Amsterdam since 1996 .
Born in New Amsterdam
- Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965), writer
- Wilson Harris (1921-2018), writer
- Howard Eastman (* 1970), professional middleweight boxer
Web links
proof
- ↑ citypopulation: Guyana , accessed November 20, 2017