Bolivia

Bolivia is a beautiful, geographically rich, and multiethnic country in the heart of , visited for its stunning mountain landscapes and vibrant indigenous culture.
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The Bolivian is the area of the Andes above about 3,500 m in Bolivia.
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Bolivia

  • Country with 11,400,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 233 metres (764 feet)
  • …has as its capital
  • …uses the Boliviano (BOB)
  • …has the phone code 591
  • …uses the internet domain .bo
  • …covers 1,098,580 km² (424,164 miles²)
  • Description: sovereign state in South America
  • Also known as
    “Bolivia (Plurinational State of)”
    “Bolivtlān”
    “Plurinational State of Bolivia”
    “Republic of Bolivia”
  • Languages
    Spanish
    Quechua
    Aymara
  • Neighbors
  • Established: August 6, 1825
  • Categories
    sovereign state
    landlocked country
    locality
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
-16.931° or 16° 55′ 52″ south
Longitude of center
-64.248° or 64° 14′ 53″ west
Open­Street­Map ID
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Geo­Names ID
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Bolivia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Боливиа”
  • Achinese: “Bolivia”
  • Adyghe: “Боливие”
  • Afrikaans: “Bolivia”
  • Afrikaans: “Bolivië”
  • Akan: “Bolivia”
  • Albanian: “Bolivi”
  • Albanian: “Bolivia”
  • Amharic: “ቦሊቪያ”
  • Amis: “Bolivia”
  • Angika: “बोलीविया”
  • Arabic: “البوليفية”
  • Arabic: “بوليفي”
  • Arabic: “بوليفيا”
  • Arabic: “بولیفیا”
  • Aragonese: “Bolibia”
  • Aragonese: “Bolivia”
  • Armenian: “Բոլիվիա”
  • Arpitan: “Bolivia”
  • Arpitan: “Bolivie”
  • Assamese: “বলিভিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Bolivia”
  • Asturian: “Estáu Plurinacional de Bolivia”
  • Atayal: “Bolivia”
  • Awadhi: “बोलिविया”
  • Aymara: “Wuliwya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Boliviya”
  • Balinese: “Bolivia”
  • Bambara: “Bolivi”
  • Bambara: “Bolivia”
  • Bashkir: “Боливия”
  • Basque: “Bolibia”
  • Basque: “Bolivia”
  • Batak Toba: “Bolipia”
  • Batak Toba: “Bolivia”
  • Bavarian: “Bolivien”
  • Belarusian: “Балівія”
  • Bengali: “বলিভিয়া”
  • Bengali: “বোলিভিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Boliwi”
  • Bhojpuri: “बोलीविया”
  • Bishnupriya: “বলিভিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Bolivia”
  • Bosnian: “Bolivija”
  • Breton: “Bolivia”
  • Bulgarian: “Боливия”
  • Burmese: “ဘိုလီးဗီးယား”
  • Burmese: “ဘိုလီးဗီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ဘိုလီးဘီးယား”
  • Catalan: “Bolívia”
  • Catalan: “Estat bolivià”
  • Catalan: “Estat Plurinacional de Bolívia”
  • Catalan: “República de Bolívia”
  • Cebuano: “Bolibiya”
  • Cebuano: “Bolivia”
  • Central Bikol: “Bolibya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Bolivia”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆلیڤیا”
  • Chavacano: “Bolivia”
  • Chechen: “Боливи”
  • Cherokee: “ᏉᎵᏫᎠ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏉᎵᏫᏯ”
  • Cheyenne: “Bolivia”
  • Chinese: “多民族玻利维亚国”
  • Chinese: “玻利維亞”
  • Chinese: “玻利维亚 / 玻利維亞”
  • Chinese: “玻利维亚”
  • Chuvash: “Боливи”
  • Cornish: “Bolivi”
  • Corsican: “Bolivia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Boliviya”
  • Croatian: “Bolivija”
  • Czech: “Bolívie”
  • Czech: “Bolivijský mnohonárodnostní stát”
  • Czech: “Mnohonárodnostní stát Bolívie”
  • Dagbani: “Bolivia”
  • Danish: “Bolivia”
  • Dhivehi: “ބޮލީވިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bolivya”
  • Dotyali: “बोलिभिया”
  • Dutch: “Bolivia”
  • Dutch: “Bolivië”
  • Dutch: “Plurinationale Staat Bolivia”
  • Dutch: “Plurinationale Staat Bolivië”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷེ་ལི་བི་ཡ”
  • Dzongkha: “བོ་ལི་ཝིཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Боливий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوليفيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوليڤيا”
  • Emilian: “Bulîvia”
  • Erzya: “Боливия”
  • Esperanto: “Bolivio”
  • Esperanto: “Plurnacia Ŝtato Bolivio”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Bolivio”
  • Estonian: “Boliivia”
  • Ewe: “Bolivia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Bolivia”
  • Extremaduran: “Bolivia”
  • Extremaduran: “Bolívia”
  • Faroese: “Bolivia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bolivia”
  • Finnish: “Bolivia”
  • Finnish: “Bolivian monikansainen valtio”
  • French: “Bolivie”
  • French: “l’État plurinational de Bolivie”
  • Friulian: “Bolivie”
  • Fulah: “Boliwii”
  • Fulah: “Boliwiya”
  • Ga: “Bolivia”
  • Ga: “Republic of Bolivia”
  • Gagauz: “Boliviya”
  • Galician: “Bolivia”
  • Ganda: “Boliviya”
  • Georgian: “ბოლივია”
  • German: “Bolivien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bolivia”
  • Gilaki: “بؤليوي”
  • Goan Konkani: “Bolivia”
  • Goan Konkani: “बोलिविया”
  • Goan Konkani: “बोलिव्हिया”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Βολιβία”
  • Greek: “Πολυεθνοτικό Κράτος της Βολιβίας”
  • Guarani: “Volívia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Bolivi”
  • Gujarati: “બોલિવિયા”
  • Gujarati: “બોલીવિયા”
  • Haitian: “Bolivi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bolivia”
  • Hausa: “Bolibiya”
  • Hawaiian: “Poliwia”
  • Hebrew: “בוליביה”
  • Hebrew: “בוליוויה”
  • Hindi: “बोलिविया”
  • Hindi: “बोलीविया”
  • Hungarian: “Bolívia”
  • Hungarian: “Bolíviai Többnemzetiségű Állam”
  • Iban: “Bolivia”
  • Icelandic: “Bólivía”
  • Ido: “Bolivia”
  • Igbo: “Bolivia”
  • Iloko: “Bolivia”
  • Inari Sami: “Bolivia maaŋgâaalmugriijkâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Bolivia”
  • Indonesian: “Bolivia”
  • Interlingua: “Bolivia”
  • Interlingue: “Bolivia”
  • Irish: “an Bholaiv”
  • Irish: “An Bholaiv”
  • Italian: “Bolivia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Bolivia”
  • Japanese: “ボリビア”
  • Japanese: “ボリビア共和国”
  • Japanese: “ボリビア多民族国”
  • Javanese: “Bolivia”
  • Kabardian: “Боливиэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Polivi”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Bolívia”
  • Kabyle: “Bolivia”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bolivia”
  • Kalmyk: “Дала Улста Боливмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಬಲ್ಗೇರಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೊಲಿವಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೊಲಿವಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Boliviya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Боливия”
  • Kashmiri: “بولِوِیا”
  • Kashmiri: “بولیویا”
  • Kashmiri: “बोलिविया”
  • Kashubian: “Bòliwiô”
  • Kazakh: “Боливия”
  • Khmer: “បូលីវី”
  • Kikuyu: “Bolivia”
  • Kinaray-A: “Bolibya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Boliviya”
  • Kirghiz: “Боливия”
  • Kongo: “Bolivia”
  • Korean: “볼리비아”
  • Kotava: “Bolivia”
  • Kurdish: “Bolîvya”
  • Kurdish: “بۆلیڤیا”
  • Ladin: “Bolivia”
  • Ladino: “Bolivia”
  • Lao: “ໂບລິເວຍ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດໂບລິເວຍ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດໂບລີວີ”
  • Latgalian: “Boliveja”
  • Latin: “Bolivia”
  • Latvian: “Bolīvija”
  • Lezghian: “Боливия”
  • Ligurian: “Bolivia”
  • Limburgan: “Bolivia”
  • Lingala: “Bolivi”
  • Lingala: “Bolivia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bolivia”
  • Literary Chinese: “玻利維亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Bolivija”
  • Livvi: “Bolivii”
  • Lojban: “bolivias”
  • Lombard: “Bulivia”
  • Low German: “Bolivia”
  • Low German: “Bolivië”
  • Low German: “Bolivien”
  • Low German: “Meervoldige stoat Bolivië”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Boliwiska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Mbolivi”
  • Lule Sami: “Bolijvva”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bolivien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bolivia”
  • Macedonian: “Боливија”
  • Madurese: “Bolivia”
  • Malagasy: “Bolivia”
  • Malagasy: “Bôlivia”
  • Malay: “Bolivia”
  • Malayalam: “ബൊളീവിയ”
  • Maltese: “Bolivja”
  • Maltese: “il-Bolivja”
  • Maltese: “l-Istat Plurinazzjonali tal-Bolivja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯣꯂꯤꯚꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Volivia”
  • Manx: “Yn Volivia”
  • Maori: “Poriwia”
  • Marathi: “बोलिव्हिया”
  • Mazanderani: “بولیوی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bolivia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bolivia”
  • Minangkabau: “Bolivia”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოლივია”
  • Mirandese: “Bolíbia”
  • Moksha: “Боливия”
  • Moksha: “Ламанациянь Кирдемастор Боливия”
  • Mongolian: “Боливи”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوليڤيا”
  • Nauru: “Boribiya”
  • Navajo: “Ałhidadiikʼą́ Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Bolivia”
  • Nepali: “बोलिभिया”
  • Newari: “बोलिभिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Bholiviya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Boliiwien”
  • Northern Luri: “بولیوی”
  • Northern Sami: “Bolivia máŋggaálbmotriika”
  • Northern Sami: “Bolivia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolivia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den flernasjonale stat Bolivia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Bolivia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bolivia”
  • Norwegian: “Bolivia”
  • Novial: “Bolivia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bolívia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat Plurinacional de Bolívia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat Plurinacionau de Bolívia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bolifia”
  • Oriya: “ବୋଲଭିଆ”
  • Oriya: “ବୋଲିଭିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Boliiviyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Боливи”
  • Pali: “बोलिविया”
  • Pampanga: “Bolibia”
  • Pampanga: “Bolivia”
  • Pangasinan: “Bolivia”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੋਲੀਵੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Bolivia”
  • Persian: “بولیوی”
  • Persian: “بولیویا”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Bolivien”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Bolivje”
  • Picard: “Bolivie”
  • Piemontese: “Bolivia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Boliwya”
  • Polish: “Boliwia”
  • Portuguese: “Bolívia”
  • Pushto: “بوليويا”
  • Pushto: “بولیویا”
  • Quechua: “Bolivia”
  • Quechua: “Bulibiya”
  • Quechua: “Pulipya”
  • Quechua: “Puliwya”
  • Quechua: “Wuliwiya”
  • Quechua: “Wuliwya”
  • Romanian: “Bolivia”
  • Romansh: “Bolivia”
  • Rundi: “Boliviya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Боливи”
  • Russian: “Боливия”
  • Russian: “Многонациональное Государство Боливия”
  • Rusyn: “Болівія”
  • Sakizaya: “Bolivia”
  • Samoan: “Polevia”
  • Samogitian: “Buolėvėjė”
  • Sango: “Bolivïi”
  • Sanskrit: “बोलिविया”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱚᱞᱤᱵᱷᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Bolìvia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bolivien”
  • Scots: “Bolivie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Boilibhia”
  • Serbian: “Bolivija”
  • Serbian: “Боливија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bolivija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပူဝ်ႇလီးပီးယႃး”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပူဝ်ႇလီးဝီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Bolivia”
  • Sicilian: “Bolivia”
  • Silesian: “Boliwijo”
  • Sindhi: “بوليويا جي گھڻ قومي رياست”
  • Sindhi: “بوليويا”
  • Sinhala: “බොලිවියාව”
  • Sinhala: “බොලීවියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bolivia määŋgmeersaž valdia”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bolivia”
  • Slovak: “Bolívia”
  • Slovak: “Bolívijský mnohonárodný štát”
  • Slovenian: “Bolivija”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Bolivija”
  • Slovenian: “Večnacionalna država Bolivija”
  • Somali: “Boliifia”
  • Somali: “Boliifiya”
  • Somali: “Booliifiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بولیوی”
  • Spanish: “Bolivia”
  • Spanish: “Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia”
  • Spanish: “República de Bolivia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵓⵍⵉⴼⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Bolivia”
  • Swahili: “Bolivia”
  • Swati: “IBholiviya”
  • Swedish: “Bolivia”
  • Swedish: “Mångnationella staten Bolivia”
  • Swiss German: “Bolivien”
  • Tachelhit: “Bulifya”
  • Tagalog: “Bolivia”
  • Tahitian: “Porivia”
  • Tajik: “Боливия”
  • Talysh: “Bolivijə”
  • Talysh: “Bolivya”
  • Tamil: “பொலிவியா”
  • Taroko: “Bolivia”
  • Tatar: “Боливия”
  • Telugu: “బొలీవియా”
  • Tetum: “Bolívia”
  • Thai: “โบลิเวีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศโบลิเวีย”
  • Thai: “รัฐพหุชนชาติโบลิเวีย”
  • Tibetan: “བྷོ་ལི་ཝི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “བོ་ལི་ཝིཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቦሊቪያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ቦሊቭያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bolivia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Polīvia”
  • Tumbuka: “Bolivia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بوليڥيا”
  • Turkish: “Bolivya”
  • Turkmen: “Boliwiýa”
  • Twi: “Bolivia”
  • Udmurt: “Боливия”
  • Uighur: “بولىۋىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Болівія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Boliwiska”
  • Urdu: “بولیویا”
  • Uzbek: “Boliviya”
  • Venetian: “Bołivia”
  • Venetian: “Bołìvia”
  • Veps: “Bolivii”
  • Vietnamese: “Bô-li-vi-a (Bolivia)”
  • Vietnamese: “Bô-li-vi-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Bolivia”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà nước Đa dân tộc Bolivia”
  • Vlaams: “Bolivië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Boliviya”
  • Volapük: “Bolivän”
  • Võro: “Boliivia”
  • Walloon: “Boliveye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bolivia”
  • Wayuu: “Woliiwia”
  • Welsh: “Bolifia”
  • Welsh: “Bolivia”
  • Welsh: “Gwladwriaeth Bolifia”
  • Western Armenian: “Պոլիվիա”
  • Western Balochi: “بولی ویا”
  • Western Frisian: “Bolivia”
  • Western Mari: “Боливи”
  • Western Panjabi: “بولیویا”
  • Wolof: “Boliibi”
  • Wolof: “Boliwi”
  • Wu Chinese: “玻利维亚”
  • Xhosa: “Bolivia”
  • Yakut: “Боливия”
  • Yiddish: “באליוויע”
  • Yoruba: “Bòlífíà”
  • Yoruba: “Bọ̀lífíyà”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Bọ̀lífíyà”
  • Yue Chinese: “玻利維亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Bolivia”
  • Zhuang: “Bohliveizya”
  • Zulu: “i-Bolivia”
  • “BO”
  • “BOL”
  • “ma Polipija”

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