Has two capitals - Sucre constitutionally and La Paz in practice - and the highest administrative capital anywhere.
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Bolivia
Plurinational State of Bolivia ยท Wuliwya
South America
ยท South America
0Population
1.1Mkmยฒ of land
$3.55KGDP / person
La PazCapital
- ISO codes
- BO ยท BOL
- Density
- 11 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Aymara, Guaranรญ, Quechua, Spanish
- Currency
- Bolivian boliviano (BOB)
- Dial code
- +591
- Internet domain
- .bo
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 16.6660ยฐ S, 64.5930ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Bolivian
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $40.9B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Bolivia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
79th
of 242 ยท 0.15% of world population
Land area
29th
of 242 ยท 0.73% of world land
GDP per person
164th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
212th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Bolivia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 11,513,100 people, the 79th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.15 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,098,581 kmยฒ, making it the 29th largest country here - about 11.9 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 11 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is La Paz, at 16.50ยฐ S, 68.15ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,590,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, America/La Paz.
The currency is the Bolivian boliviano (BOB, symbol Bs.).
Has 4 official languages: Aymara, Guaranรญ, Quechua and Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/La Paz
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UTCโ04:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
17.7520ยฐ S, 63.2279ยฐ W
2.1M
2
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La Paz
La Paz
16.4960ยฐ S, 68.1519ยฐ W
1.59M
3
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Sucre
Chuquisaca
19.0410ยฐ S, 65.2595ยฐ W
224.84K
4
Tarija
Tarija
21.5167ยฐ S, 64.7500ยฐ W
159.27K
5
Trinidad
El Beni
14.8334ยฐ S, 64.9000ยฐ W
84.26K
6
Riberalta
El Beni
10.9830ยฐ S, 66.1000ยฐ W
74.01K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Salar de Uyuni
Nature
The world's largest salt flat, so level that a thin rain film turns 10,000 kmยฒ into a perfect mirror of the sky.
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Bolivia.