South America
Colombia

Meta Department

The Orinoquía is the "Wild East" of . Endless plains — Los Llanos — are dotted with livestock, cowboys on horseback pioneering the landscape, and the roadless landscapes go uninterrupted save by some of Colombia's great meandering rivers.
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  • Type: State with 771,000 residents
  • Description: department of Colombia
  • Also known as: “Department of Meta”, “Intendencia del Meta”, “Intendencia Nacional del Meta”, and “Meta”
  • Neighbors: and

Meta Department

Latitude
3.5° or 3° 30′ north
Longitude
-73° or 73° west
Population
771,000
Elevation
238 metres (781 feet)
Open location code
67M8GX2X+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306394504
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3674810
Wiki­data ID
Q238629
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Meta Department” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Meta (departement)”
  • Afrikaans: “Meta”
  • Arabic: “إدارة ميتا”
  • Asturian: “departamentu de Meta”
  • Asturian: “Meta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Meta (departament)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Meta”
  • Basque: “Meta”
  • Belarusian: “Мета”
  • Bengali: “মেটা”
  • Breton: “Meta”
  • Bulgarian: “Мета”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Meta”
  • Catalan: “Departament del Meta”
  • Catalan: “Meta”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento del Meta”
  • Chinese: “Meta”
  • Chinese: “梅塔省”
  • Croatian: “Meta”
  • Czech: “Meta”
  • Danish: “Meta”
  • Dutch: “Meta”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Metao”
  • Esperanto: “Metao”
  • Finnish: “Meta”
  • French: “Département de Meta”
  • French: “Meta”
  • Galician: “Departamento do Meta”
  • Galician: “Meta, Colombia”
  • Galician: “Meta”
  • Georgian: “მეტის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Departamento del Meta”
  • German: “Meta”
  • Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Μέτα”
  • Greek: “Μέτα”
  • Gujarati: “મેટા”
  • Hebrew: “מטה”
  • Hindi: “मेटा”
  • Hungarian: “Meta megye”
  • Iloko: “Departamento ti Meta”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Meta”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Meta”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Meta”
  • Italian: “Meta”
  • Japanese: “メタ県”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಟಾ”
  • Korean: “메타주”
  • Ladino: “Meta”
  • Latvian: “Metas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Metos departamentas”
  • Low German: “Departamento Meta”
  • Malagasy: “Departamentan’i Meta”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Meta”
  • Marathi: “मेटा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Meta”
  • Northern Frisian: “Meta (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Meta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Meta i Colombia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Meta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meta-departementet”
  • Norwegian: “Meta”
  • Ossetian: “Метæ (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Метæ”
  • Persian: “بخش متا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان متا”
  • Polish: “Meta”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Meta”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento do Meta”
  • Portuguese: “Meta”
  • Quechua: “Meta suyu”
  • Russian: “Мета”
  • Russian: “Ме́та”
  • Samogitian: “Metas departaments”
  • Scots: “Meta Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Meta, Colombie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Meta”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn Meta”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Meta (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Meta”
  • Sinhala: “මෙටා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “මෙටා”
  • Spanish: “Departamento del Meta”
  • Spanish: “Meta”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⵎⵉⵟⴰ”
  • Swedish: “Meta”
  • Tagalog: “Meta”
  • Tamil: “மெட்டா”
  • Telugu: “మెటా”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเมตา”
  • Turkish: “Meta”
  • Ukrainian: “Мета”
  • Urdu: “میتا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “میتا محکمہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Meta”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Meta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Meta”
  • Wayuu: “Meeta”
  • Welsh: “Meta”
  • Western Armenian: “Մեթայի վարչակազմ”
  • Western Panjabi: “میتا ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅塔省”
  • Yoruba: “Meta Department”
  • “Metas departaments”

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