The only South American country with coastlines on both the Pacific and the Caribbean, and the most bird species of any nation.
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Colombia
Republic of Colombia
South America
ยท South America
0Population
1.14Mkmยฒ of land
$6.43KGDP / person
BogotaCapital
- ISO codes
- CO ยท COL
- Density
- 44 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Colombian peso (COP)
- Dial code
- +57
- Internet domain
- .co
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 3.3730ยฐ N, 73.1740ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Colombian
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $323.62B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Colombia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
29th
of 242 ยท 0.66% of world population
Land area
27th
of 242 ยท 0.76% of world land
GDP per person
129th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
164th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Colombia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 50,339,443 people, the 29th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.66 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,141,748 kmยฒ, making it the 27th largest country here - about 4.7 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 44 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Bogota, at 4.60ยฐ N, 74.09ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 7,772,000.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Bogota.
The currency is the Colombian peso (COP, symbol $).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Bogota
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Bogota
Bogota
4.5984ยฐ N, 74.0853ยฐ W
7.77M
2
Medellรญn
Antioquia
6.2769ยฐ N, 75.5770ยฐ W
3.3M
3
Cali
Valle del Cauca
3.4019ยฐ N, 76.5019ยฐ W
2.25M
4
Barranquilla
Atlรกntico
10.9619ยฐ N, 74.8019ยฐ W
1.8M
5
Cartagena
Bolรญvar
10.4017ยฐ N, 75.5163ยฐ W
887K
6
Pasto
Nariรฑo
1.2136ยฐ N, 77.2811ยฐ W
382.24K
7
Manizales
Caldas
5.0600ยฐ N, 75.5200ยฐ W
375.85K
8
Leticia
Amazonas
4.2012ยฐ S, 69.9553ยฐ W
59.58K
9
Mitรบ
Vaupรฉs
1.1983ยฐ N, 70.1736ยฐ W
5.92K
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Colombia.