Sucre in Bolivia (image by Micah MacAllen, Imagen 033, CC BY-SA 2.0, link)View destination
Continent: | South America |
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Country code: | BO |
Phone code: | +591 |
Top level domain: | .bo |
Provinces: | 9 |
Capital: | Sucre |
Latitude: | -16.290154 |
Longitude: | -63.588653 |
More information: | Wikipedia |
Bolivia, officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is located in western-central South America. It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil, to the southeast by Paraguay, to the south by Argentina, to the southwest by Chile, and to the northwest by Peru. It has no ocean access. One-third of the country is the Andean mountain range.
The largest city and principal economic and financial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales (Tropical lowlands) a mostly flat region in the East of Bolivia. Bolivia and its smaller neighbor Paraguay are the only landlocked countries in the Americas. With 1,098,581 km² of area, Bolivia is the 27th largest country but it remains relatively weak in economic and military terms.
The country's population, estimated at 11 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Mestizos, Europeans, Asians and Africans. The racial and social segregation that arose from Spanish colonialism has continued to the modern era. Spanish is the official and predominant language, although 36 indigenous languages also have official status, of which the most commonly spoken are Guarani, Aymara and Quechua languages.
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