Angel Falls drops 979 m here, so far that much of the water becomes mist before it lands.
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Venezuela
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
South America
ยท South America
0Population
916.45Kkmยฒ of land
$16.92KGDP / person
CaracasCapital
- ISO codes
- VE ยท VEN
- Density
- 31 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Venezuelan bolรญvar soberano (VES)
- Dial code
- +58
- Internet domain
- .ve
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 7.1820ยฐ N, 64.5990ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Venezuelan
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $482.36B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Venezuela stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
50th
of 242 ยท 0.37% of world population
Land area
34th
of 242 ยท 0.61% of world land
GDP per person
78th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
175th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Venezuela
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 28,515,829 people, the 50th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.37 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 916,445 kmยฒ, making it the 34th largest country here - about 10 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 31 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Caracas, at 10.50ยฐ N, 66.92ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 2,985,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Brazil, Colombia and Guyana.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Caracas.
The currency is the Venezuelan bolรญvar soberano (VES, symbol Bs.S.).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Caracas
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UTCโ04:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Caracas
Distrito Capital
10.5029ยฐ N, 66.9190ยฐ W
2.99M
2
Maracaibo
Zulia
10.7319ยฐ N, 71.6619ยฐ W
2.07M
3
Valencia
Carabobo
10.2319ยฐ N, 67.9820ยฐ W
1.77M
4
Ciudad Guayana
Bolรญvar
8.3700ยฐ N, 62.6200ยฐ W
746.54K
5
San Cristรณbal
Tรกchira
7.7700ยฐ N, 72.2500ยฐ W
438.8K
6
Mรฉrida
Mรฉrida
8.4000ยฐ N, 71.1300ยฐ W
345.49K
7
Puerto Ayacucho
Amazonas
5.6639ยฐ N, 67.6236ยฐ W
52.53K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Venezuela.