South America

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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include La Paz and Sucre.

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is the administrative capital of Bolivia, while is the constitutional capital and the seat of the Supreme Court.

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is a city in , Bolivia. It is the official capital of the country, though most of the government is based in . Its center is a UNESCO world heritage site, and it is a pretty city with welcoming people and a peaceful atmosphere.

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de la Sierra, commonly known as , is the largest city in Bolivia and the capital of the department. Situated on the Pirai River in the eastern Tropical Lowlands of Bolivia, the de la Sierra Metropolitan Region is the most populous urban agglomeration in Bolivia with an estimated population of 2.4 million in 2020.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Altiplano and Santa Cruz.

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The Bolivian is the area of the Andes above about 3,500 m in Bolivia. The stretches into neighbouring and .

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is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third of the country's territory. With an area of 370,621 km2, it is slightly smaller than or the state of .

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The Department is a region of in south-central Bolivia in a region where the Altiplano merges with the Valles into the Gran Chaco lowlands. The name comes from the Quechua name for the capital Sucre.

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, sometimes El , is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second-largest department in the country, covering 213,564 square kilometers, and it was created by supreme decree on November 18, 1842, during the administration of General José Ballivián.

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is a department in the Sub-Andean region of Bolivia. It lies in the Andean valley region of Bolivia, between the tropical lowlands of and the highlands and altiplano in and .

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is a department in Bolivia. It is located in south-eastern Bolivia bordering with to the south and to the east. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 534,348 inhabitants.

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The Department is an undeveloped, sparsely populated, densely forested and remote region in the Tropical Lowlands of Bolivia in the Amazon Basin on the border with Brazil.

Bolivia

Latitude of center
-16.931° or 16° 55′ 52″ south
Longitude of center
-64.248° or 64° 14′ 53″ west
Population
11,400,000
Area
1,098,580 km² (424,164 miles²)
Elevation
233 metres (764 feet)
Inception
August 6th, 1825
Capital
Currency
Boliviano (BOB)
Phone code
.bo
Internet domain
591
Open­Street­Map ID
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Geo­Names ID
3923057
Wiki­data ID
Q750
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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: “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: “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: “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”
  • 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”
  • 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: “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”
  • 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: “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: “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”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bolivien”
  • 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”
  • “BO”
  • “bol”
  • “BOL”
  • “Boliivia”
  • “Bolivia”
  • “Buolėvėjė”
  • “ma Polipija”
  • “बोलीविया”

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