Culture of Suriname
Encyclopedia
Surinamese culture is very diverse and dynamic and has a strong Asian
and African influences. The population is composed of the contribution of people from the Netherlands
, Africa
, India
, China
and Indonesia
as well as indigenous peoples who lived in the area before the arrival of Europe
an settlers. 90% of persons established in Suriname have ancestors who come from other countries and regions.
The city of Paramaribo
is the heart of this small country and the sounding of their culture.
Chinese New Year
Holi-Phagwa
Easter
Labour Day
Immigration of the Indians
Keti Koti
Immigration of the Javanese
Day of the indigenous people
Independence Day
Christmas
n country, a former colony of the Netherlands with strong ties to that country. The country is well known for kaseko
music, and have an Indo-Caribbean
tradition.
The Kaseko
probably derived from the expression "casser le corps" (rest body) that was used during slavery to describe a very fast dance. Kaseko is a fusion of many styles and folklore from Europe, Africa and the Americas
. It is rhythmically complex percussion instruments including skratji (big drum) and trap drums and saxophone, trumpet and trombone occasionally. May be sung solo or in chorus. The songs are typically structured to say and answer, as are the styles of the natives of the area, as winti
and Kawina
.
The Kaseko evolved in the thirties during festivities that used large bands, particularly bands of winds, and were called Bigi Pokoe (big drum music). The following: World War 2, jazz, calypso and other important became popular, while the rock music of the United States soon left its own influence in the form of electric instruments.
.
is the National gouverning body for sports in Suriname. The SOC was established in 1959 and now has 17 members. Athletics, Badminton, Basketbal, Boxing, Chess, Cycling, Judo, Karate, Shooting, Soccer, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwando, Tennis, Thriathlon, Volleyball, & Wrestling.
Other some what popular sports in Suriname are baseball & softball, beach soccer & beach volley, boating, body building & power lifting, bridge, cricket, draughts, fishing, golf, horseback riding, snooker & billiards, squash, auto & motor sports, car rallying with the annual Savannah rallye of the Surinaamse Auto Rallye Klub (SARK).
One of the major sports in Suriname is football. Some of the greatest football players to represent the Netherlands
, such as Fabian de Freitas
, Pierre van Hooijdonk
, Frank Rijkaard
, Ruud Gullit
, Patrick Kluivert
, Edgar Davids
, Clarence Seedorf
, Aron Winter
, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
, Stanley Menzo
, Ryan Babel
, Ken Monkou
, Edson Braafheid
, Boy Waterman
, Regi Blinker
, Fabian Wilnis
and Eljero Elia
are of Surinamese descent. Davids in particular has written of his passionate pride in his Surinamese heritage and his love of attending football matches there. There are a number of local heroes in other sports as well, like Primraj Binda, best known as the athlete who dominated the local 10 km (6.2 mi)
for nearly a decade, Steven Vismale and Letitia Vriesde
. Another notable track athlete from Suriname was Tommy Asinga
.
Swimmer Anthony Nesty
is the only Olympic
medallist for Suriname. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, he now lives in Gainesville
, Florida, and is a coach of the University of Florida, mainly a coaching distance swimmers.
Multiple K-1
champion and legend, Ernesto Hoost
, was born in Suriname. Rayen Simson
, another legendary multiple world champion kickboxer, was also born in Suriname.Remy Bonjasky
also a multiple K-1
champion is also from Surinamese descent.
MMA
and Kickboxing
champions Melvin Manhoef
, Gilbert Yvel
were born in Suriname or from Surinamese descent. Retired female kickboxer Ilonka Elmont
was also born in Suriname. Another notable up and comer kickboxer and K-1
fighter, Tyrone Spong
, was born in Suriname. Ginty Vrede
, a former Muay Thai Heavy Weight Champion who died in 2008 aged 22, was born in Suriname.
The above has ensured that the Surinamese cooking many dishes has spawned, the different groups were then each other's dishes and ingredients to use and influence which new Surinamese cuisine originated include: roti, fried rice, noodles, pom, snesi Foroe, moksi meti , Losi Foroe; from this blending of many cultures with the Surinamese, Surinamese cuisine is a unique creation. Basic food include rice, groundnuts and cassava fruits such Tayer (Creole) and roti (Hindi). Usually this is a chicken on the menu in many variations of the Chinese and Hindu snesi Foroe masala chicken to pom, a very popular party dish of Creole origin. Also, salt and meat bakkeljauw are widely used. Beans, okra and Boulanger are examples of vegetables in the Surinamese kitchen. For a spicy dishes taste as Madame Jeanette peppers are used.
Besides the dish is also pumping roti (often served with a filling of chicken masala, potato and vegetables) often served on festive occasions with many guests. Other famous dishes are moksi-alesi (boiled rice mixed with salted meat, shrimp or fish and any vegetables) and the original Javanese fried rice and noodles, which in the Western Hemisphere have developed their own.
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and African influences. The population is composed of the contribution of people from the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
and Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
as well as indigenous peoples who lived in the area before the arrival of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an settlers. 90% of persons established in Suriname have ancestors who come from other countries and regions.
The city of Paramaribo
Paramaribo
Paramaribo is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 250,000 people, more than half of Suriname's population...
is the heart of this small country and the sounding of their culture.
Cultural events
New Year's EveNew Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year – often called Chinese Lunar New Year although it actually is lunisolar – is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is an all East and South-East-Asia celebration...
Holi-Phagwa
Easter
Easter
Easter is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday...
Labour Day
Labour Day
Labour Day or Labor Day is an annual holiday to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for...
Immigration of the Indians
Keti Koti
Keti Koti
Keti Koti , July 1, is the Emancipation Day in Suriname.Slavery was abolished by the Netherlands in Suriname in 1863. However, slaves in Suriname would not be fully free until 1873, after a mandatory 10 year transition period during which time they were required to work on the plantations for...
Immigration of the Javanese
Day of the indigenous people
Independence Day
Independence Day
An Independence Day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood, usually after ceasing to be a colony or part of another nation or state, and more rarely after the end of a military occupation...
Christmas
Christmas
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Music
Suriname is a South AmericaSouth America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
n country, a former colony of the Netherlands with strong ties to that country. The country is well known for kaseko
Kaseko
Kaseko is a musical genre from Suriname, a fusion of African, European and American styles. The term kaseko derives from casser le corps which referred to a swift dance during the period when slavery was legal in the region...
music, and have an Indo-Caribbean
Indo-Caribbean
Indo-Caribbean people or Indo-Caribbeans are Caribbean people with roots in India or the Indian subcontinent. They are mostly descendants of the original indentured workers brought by the British, the Dutch and the French during colonial times...
tradition.
The Kaseko
Kaseko
Kaseko is a musical genre from Suriname, a fusion of African, European and American styles. The term kaseko derives from casser le corps which referred to a swift dance during the period when slavery was legal in the region...
probably derived from the expression "casser le corps" (rest body) that was used during slavery to describe a very fast dance. Kaseko is a fusion of many styles and folklore from Europe, Africa and the Americas
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
. It is rhythmically complex percussion instruments including skratji (big drum) and trap drums and saxophone, trumpet and trombone occasionally. May be sung solo or in chorus. The songs are typically structured to say and answer, as are the styles of the natives of the area, as winti
Winti
Winti is the Afro-Surinamese traditional religion that resulted from the coming together of different elements of the religious beliefs of the slaves that were brought to Suriname from different west African tribes . Similar religious developments can be seen elsewhere in the America's and the...
and Kawina
Kawina
Kawina is an extinct genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida. It contains one species, K. wilsoni.-External links:* at the Paleobiology Database...
.
The Kaseko evolved in the thirties during festivities that used large bands, particularly bands of winds, and were called Bigi Pokoe (big drum music). The following: World War 2, jazz, calypso and other important became popular, while the rock music of the United States soon left its own influence in the form of electric instruments.
Indo-Surinamense music
Indian music arrived with immigrants from South Asia. This included folk music played with the dhantal, tabla, sitar, harmonium and dholak, tassa drums then even. That music songs were mostly Hindus called the "bhajans" and the filmi. The singing style tan is unique to the Indian community in Suriname and GuyanaGuyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
.
Sports
The Suriname Olympic CommitteeSuriname Olympic Committee
Suriname Olympic Committee is the National Olympic Committee representing Suriname.- External links :**...
is the National gouverning body for sports in Suriname. The SOC was established in 1959 and now has 17 members. Athletics, Badminton, Basketbal, Boxing, Chess, Cycling, Judo, Karate, Shooting, Soccer, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwando, Tennis, Thriathlon, Volleyball, & Wrestling.
Other some what popular sports in Suriname are baseball & softball, beach soccer & beach volley, boating, body building & power lifting, bridge, cricket, draughts, fishing, golf, horseback riding, snooker & billiards, squash, auto & motor sports, car rallying with the annual Savannah rallye of the Surinaamse Auto Rallye Klub (SARK).
One of the major sports in Suriname is football. Some of the greatest football players to represent the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, such as Fabian de Freitas
Fabian de Freitas
Fabian de Freitas is a former Surinamese-Dutch footballer who plays as a striker. De Freitas played in England with Bolton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion and in Spain with CA Osasuna....
, Pierre van Hooijdonk
Pierre van Hooijdonk
Petrus Ferdinandus Johannes "Pierre" van Hooijdonk is a retired Dutch football player who played as a striker. His last spell was at Feyenoord Rotterdam. Van Hooijdonk was capped 46 times for the Dutch national team, scoring 21 goals, and played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000 and Euro 2004...
, Frank Rijkaard
Frank Rijkaard
Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard is a Dutch football manager of Dutch and Surinamese descent and former player. Rijkaard has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. In his coaching career, he has been at the helm of the Dutch national side,...
, Ruud Gullit
Ruud Gullit
OON is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup. He was named the European Footballer of the...
, Patrick Kluivert
Patrick Kluivert
Patrick Stephan Kluivert is a former Dutch footballer, currently head coach of the youth side of FC Twente. He played as a striker for AFC Ajax, A.C. Milan, FC Barcelona, Newcastle United, Valencia CF, PSV Eindhoven, and Lille OSC. Kluivert played for the Dutch national team from 1994 to 2004. He...
, Edgar Davids
Edgar Davids
Edgar Steven Davids is a retired Dutch footballer and current member of the supervisory board of Ajax. After beginning his career with the Amsterdam club, he subsequently played in Italy for Milan and Juventus before a loan spell with Barcelona. He went on to play for Internazionale and Tottenham...
, Clarence Seedorf
Clarence Seedorf
Clarence Clyde Seedorf OON is a Dutch footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Milan. Seedorf is the first player to have won the Champions League with three different clubs - Ajax in 1995, Real Madrid in 1998 and Milan in 2003 and 2007...
, Aron Winter
Aron Winter
Aron Mohamed Winter [VIN-ter] is a retired Dutch football midfielder and current head coach of Toronto FC...
, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Jerrel Hasselbaink usually known as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is a Dutch former football striker who played for various clubs in the Netherlands, Portugal, England, and Spain, as well as the Dutch national team. He scored more than 200 career goals...
, Stanley Menzo
Stanley Menzo
Stanley Purl Menzo is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and a current coach.Most of his professional career was spent at Ajax , appearing in more than 300 official matches with the club and winning nine major titles.Menzo represented the Dutch national team in one World Cup...
, Ryan Babel
Ryan Babel
Ryan Guno Babel is a Dutch football player who currently plays for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. He can play as a left winger and as a striker. Babel began his career at AFC Ajax in 1998, working his way up through the youth team and into the senior squad...
, Ken Monkou
Ken Monkou
Kenneth John "Ken" Monkou is a retired Dutch footballer who played in a defensive role.Born in Suriname but raised in the Netherlands, Monkou's first major side was Feyenoord Rotterdam. He moved to England in May 1989 to sign for newly-promoted to the First Division Chelsea for £100,000...
, Edson Braafheid
Edson Braafheid
Edson René Braafheid is a Surinamese-born Dutch footballer who currently plays as a left back for German Bundesliga club 1899 Hoffenheim.- Utrecht :Braafheid began his professional career at FC Utrecht in 2003 and made 81 appearances for the side....
, Boy Waterman
Boy Waterman
Boy Waterman is a Dutch football goalkeeper who currently plays for Alemannia Aachen.He was part of the Dutch Under-21 team to win the 2007 Under-21 European Football Championship.- Club career :...
, Regi Blinker
Regi Blinker
Reginald "Regi" Waldi Blinker is a former Dutch footballer of Surinamese extraction, who played as a left winger....
, Fabian Wilnis
Fabian Wilnis
Fabian Lloyd Wilnis is a retired Dutch-Surinamese right-sided defender. He played for NAC Breda, De Graafschap, Ipswich Town and Grays Athletic.-Career:...
and Eljero Elia
Eljero Elia
Eljero George Rinaldo Elia is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Italian Serie A club Juventus and the Dutch national team. He scored on his debut for the Dutch national team in September 2009 and participated at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.-ADO Den Haag:Before excelling in the...
are of Surinamese descent. Davids in particular has written of his passionate pride in his Surinamese heritage and his love of attending football matches there. There are a number of local heroes in other sports as well, like Primraj Binda, best known as the athlete who dominated the local 10 km (6.2 mi)
Long-distance track event
Long-distance track event races require runners to balance their energy. These types of races are predominantly aerobic in nature and at the highest level, exceptional levels of aerobic endurance is required more than anything else...
for nearly a decade, Steven Vismale and Letitia Vriesde
Letitia Vriesde
Letitia Alma Vriesde is a track and field athlete from Suriname. Her main event is the 800 m. She is the first sportsperson from Surinam to compete at five Olympic Games....
. Another notable track athlete from Suriname was Tommy Asinga
Tommy Asinga
Tommy Asinga is a track star from Moengo, Suriname.Asinga trained in the United States, attending Eastern Michigan University from 1991–1994, where he won All-American honors five times....
.
Swimmer Anthony Nesty
Anthony Nesty
Anthony Conrad Nesty is a former Surinamese international swimmer who was an Olympic gold medalist in the 100-metre butterfly event in 1988.- Early years :...
is the only Olympic
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
medallist for Suriname. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, he now lives in Gainesville
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...
, Florida, and is a coach of the University of Florida, mainly a coaching distance swimmers.
Multiple K-1
K-1
K-1 is a defunct world-wide kickboxing promotion based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a formerKyokushin karate practitioner. K-1 combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San Shou, kickboxing, western-style boxing, and other martial arts...
champion and legend, Ernesto Hoost
Ernesto Hoost
Ernesto Fritz "Mr. Perfect" Hoost is a Dutch former kickboxer and four-time K-1 World Champion. He made his debut in 1993 at the K-1 World Grand Prix 1993, where he came just one win short of the world title...
, was born in Suriname. Rayen Simson
Rayen Simson
Rayen "Red Bean" Simson is a Surinamese-Dutch former super middleweight Muay Thai kickboxer. Despite not being as well recognised as fellow Dutch Muay Thai fighters Ramon Dekkers and Rob Kaman, he is still one of the best kickboxers ever; claiming 7 world titles in 3 different organizations and...
, another legendary multiple world champion kickboxer, was also born in Suriname.Remy Bonjasky
Remy Bonjasky
Remy "The Flying Gentleman" Bonjasky is a Dutch super heavyweight kickboxer of Surinamese descent. He is a three-time K-1 World Grand Prix champion, who has won the title in 2003, 2004, and 2008...
also a multiple K-1
K-1
K-1 is a defunct world-wide kickboxing promotion based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a formerKyokushin karate practitioner. K-1 combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San Shou, kickboxing, western-style boxing, and other martial arts...
champion is also from Surinamese descent.
MMA
Mixed martial arts
Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...
and Kickboxing
Kickboxing
Kickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....
champions Melvin Manhoef
Melvin Manhoef
Melvin Manhoef is a Dutch-Surinamese Muay Thai kickboxer and mixed martial artist, trained by Mike Passenier and fighting out of Mike's Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In kickboxing, he is the current It's Showtime 85MAX World Champion, and in MMA he was the Cage Rage Light Heavyweight World champion...
, Gilbert Yvel
Gilbert Yvel
Gilbert Ramon Yvel is a Dutch heavyweight mixed martial artist associated with the Vos Gym training camp in the Netherlands. He has competed in the Pride Fighting Championships, Affliction Entertainment and Ultimate Fighting Championship promotions...
were born in Suriname or from Surinamese descent. Retired female kickboxer Ilonka Elmont
Ilonka Elmont
Ilonka "Killer Queen" Elmont is a Dutch-Surinamese former professional Muay Thai kickboxer and seven-time World Champion in the Fly-Weight division ....
was also born in Suriname. Another notable up and comer kickboxer and K-1
K-1
K-1 is a defunct world-wide kickboxing promotion based in Tokyo, Japan founded by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a formerKyokushin karate practitioner. K-1 combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San Shou, kickboxing, western-style boxing, and other martial arts...
fighter, Tyrone Spong
Tyrone Spong
Tyrone "King of The Ring" Spong is a Dutch-Surinamese kickboxer. He is the reigning WFCA Cruiserweight Muay Thai and the former It's Showtime 95MAX World champion, fighting out of Fighting Factory Carbin in Amsterdam, Netherlands....
, was born in Suriname. Ginty Vrede
Ginty Vrede
Ginty Vrede was a Dutch kickboxer and 2008 WBC Heavyweight Muay Thai World champion.-Biography and career:Vrede won the WBC heavyweight World title by beating the previously unbeaten Shane del Rosario in Las Vegas on January 12, 2008 by KO in the first round...
, a former Muay Thai Heavy Weight Champion who died in 2008 aged 22, was born in Suriname.
Cuisine
The Surinamese cuisine is extensive, since the population of Suriname coming from many countries, the Surinamese cuisine is a combination of so many international cuisines including Hindoestaans (India), Creole (Africa), Javanese (Indonesia), Chinese, Dutch, Jewish, Portuguese, Amerindian.The above has ensured that the Surinamese cooking many dishes has spawned, the different groups were then each other's dishes and ingredients to use and influence which new Surinamese cuisine originated include: roti, fried rice, noodles, pom, snesi Foroe, moksi meti , Losi Foroe; from this blending of many cultures with the Surinamese, Surinamese cuisine is a unique creation. Basic food include rice, groundnuts and cassava fruits such Tayer (Creole) and roti (Hindi). Usually this is a chicken on the menu in many variations of the Chinese and Hindu snesi Foroe masala chicken to pom, a very popular party dish of Creole origin. Also, salt and meat bakkeljauw are widely used. Beans, okra and Boulanger are examples of vegetables in the Surinamese kitchen. For a spicy dishes taste as Madame Jeanette peppers are used.
Besides the dish is also pumping roti (often served with a filling of chicken masala, potato and vegetables) often served on festive occasions with many guests. Other famous dishes are moksi-alesi (boiled rice mixed with salted meat, shrimp or fish and any vegetables) and the original Javanese fried rice and noodles, which in the Western Hemisphere have developed their own.
Religion
- ChristianityChristianityChristianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
: 48 % - HinduismHinduismHinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
: 27.4% - IslamIslamIslam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
: 19.6% - Indigenous religionIndigenous religionIndigenous religion refers to those religions which are native to indigenous peoples around the world. They are one of the three broad divisions into which religions are categorised, along with world religions and new religious movements. The majority of the world's many thousands of religions fit...
s: 5%