Bolívar Department

Bolívar is a department of . It was named after one of the original nine states of the United States of Colombia. It is located to the north of the country, extending roughly north–south from the Caribbean coast at near the mouth of the , then south along the river to a border with .
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Bolívar Department

Latitude
9° north
Longitude
-74.3333° or 74° 20′ west
Population
2,070,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
Open location code
67X72M28+2M
Geo­Names ID
3688650
Wiki­data ID
Q230597
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Bolívar Department” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Bolívar (Colombia)
  • Afrikaans: Bolívar
  • Arabic: إدارة بوليفار
  • Armenian: Բոլիվար
  • Asturian: Bolívar
  • Asturian: departamentu de Bolívar
  • Azerbaijani: Bolivar (departament)
  • Azerbaijani: Bolivar
  • Basque: Bolívar
  • Belarusian: Балівар
  • Bengali: বলিভার বিভাগ
  • Breton: Bolívar
  • Bulgarian: Боливар
  • Catalan: Bolívar
  • Catalan: Departament de Bolívar
  • Cebuano: Departamento de Bolívar
  • Chinese: Bolívar
  • Chinese: 玻利瓦尔省
  • Chinese: 玻利瓦省
  • Croatian: Bolívar
  • Czech: Bolívar
  • Czech: Departement Bolívar
  • Danish: Bolívar Department
  • Dimli (individual language): Bolivar
  • Dimli (individual language): Bolívar
  • Dutch: Bolívar
  • Esperanto: Bolivaro
  • Esperanto: Departemento Bolivaro
  • Finnish: Bolívar
  • French: Bolivar
  • French: Bolívar
  • Galician: Bolívar, Colombia
  • Galician: Bolívar
  • Georgian: ბოლივარის დეპარტამენტი
  • German: Bolívar
  • German: CO-BOL
  • German: Departamento de Bolívar
  • Greek: διαμέρισμα Μπολίβαρ
  • Greek: Διαμέρισμα Μπολίβαρ
  • Gujarati: બોલિવર વિભાગ
  • Hebrew: בוליבר
  • Hindi: बोलिवार विभाग
  • Hungarian: Bolívar megye
  • Iloko: Bolívar
  • Iloko: Departamento ti Bolívar
  • Indonesian: Departemen Bolívar
  • Italian: Bolívar
  • Italian: dipartimento di Bolívar
  • Italian: Dipartimento di Bolívar
  • Japanese: ボリーバル県
  • Kannada: ಬೋಲಿವಾರ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ
  • Korean: 볼리바르주
  • Kotava: KolombiaBolívarWinka
  • Ladino: Bolivar
  • Latvian: Bolivara departaments
  • Lithuanian: Bolivaro departamentas
  • Malagasy: Departamentan’i Bolívar
  • Malay: Pentadbiran Bolívar
  • Maltese: Bolivar
  • Maltese: Bolívar
  • Maltese: Dipartiment ta‘ Bolívar
  • Marathi: बोलिवर विभाग
  • Min Nan Chinese: Bolívar
  • Northern Frisian: Bolívar (Department uun Kolumbien)
  • Northern Frisian: Bolívar
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Bolivar
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Bolívar
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Bolívar-departementet i Colombia
  • Norwegian: Bolívar
  • Ossetian: Боливар (департамент)
  • Ossetian: Боливар
  • Persian: بخش بولیوار، کلمبیا
  • Persian: شهرستان بولیوار، کلمبیا
  • Polish: Bolívar
  • Portuguese: Bolívar
  • Portuguese: Departamento de Bolívar
  • Quechua: Bolívar suyu
  • Romanian: Departamentul Bolivar
  • Romanian: Departamentul Bolívar
  • Russian: Боливар
  • Samogitian: Bolėvara departaments
  • Scots: Bolívar Depairtment
  • Scots: Bolívar, Colombie
  • Scottish Gaelic: Bolívar
  • Serbo-Croatian: Bolívar
  • Serbo-Croatian: Departman Bolivar
  • Serbo-Croatian: Departman Bolívar
  • Sinhala: බොලිවර් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, කොලොම්බියාව
  • Sinhala: බොලිවර් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව
  • Slovenian: CO-BOL
  • Slovenian: Departamento de Bolívar
  • Spanish: Bolivar
  • Spanish: Bolívar
  • Spanish: Bolivarenses
  • Spanish: Departamento Bolivar
  • Spanish: Departamento Bolívar
  • Spanish: Departamento de Bolivar
  • Spanish: Departamento de Bolívar
  • Spanish: Departamento del Bolivar
  • Spanish: Departamento del Bolívar
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ ⵏ ⴱⵓⵍⵉⴼⴰⵔ
  • Swedish: Bolívar, Colombia
  • Swedish: Bolivar
  • Swedish: Bolívar
  • Tagalog: Bolívar
  • Tamil: பொலிவார் துறை
  • Tatar: Боливар департаменты
  • Telugu: బోలివర్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్
  • Telugu: బోలివర్ విభాగం
  • Thai: จังหวัดโบลิบาร์
  • Turkish: Bolivar
  • Turkish: Bolívar
  • Ukrainian: Болівар
  • Urdu: بولیوار ڈیپارٹمنٹ
  • Urdu: بولیوار محکمہ
  • Uzbek: Bolivar departamenti
  • Vietnamese: Bolívar
  • Waray (Philippines): Bolivar
  • Waray (Philippines): Bolívar
  • Wayuu: Mma’ipakat Woliiwat
  • Wayuu: Woliiwat
  • Western Armenian: Պոլիվարի վարչակազմ
  • Western Panjabi: بولیوار ڈیپارٹمنٹ
  • Wu Chinese: 玻利瓦尔省
  • Yoruba: Bolívar Department
  • Bolėvara departaments

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