Colombia

Colombia occupies the northwest corner of South America. It has an area twice that of France, with long coasts on the and the Pacific Oceans, mountainous regions, and Amazon jungle areas inland.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bogotá and Medellín.

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, officially D.C, is the capital of Colombia.

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is the second largest city in Colombia.

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or de Indias is a city and a world…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Andino and Costa Norte.

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The Andean region, located in central Colombia, is the most populated natural region of Colombia.

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The Caribbean Region or Colombian Caribbean is the…

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The Pacific/Chocó region is one of the five major natural regions of Colombia.

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is the southernmost region of Colombia…

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The is the "Wild East" of Colombia.

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The insular region of Colombia includes the oceanic…

Colombia

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Latitude of center
3.73° or 3° 43′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
-73.125° or 73° 7′ 30″ west
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424314631
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3686110
Wiki­data ID
Q739

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Colombia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Колумбиа ареспублика”
  • Abkhazian: “Колумбиа”
  • Achinese: “Kolombia”
  • Adyghe: “Коломбие”
  • Afrikaans: “Colombia”
  • Afrikaans: “Colombië”
  • Afrikaans: “Kolombië”
  • Akan: “Kolombia”
  • Albanian: “Kolumbi”
  • Albanian: “Kolumbia”
  • Amharic: “ኮሎምቢያ”
  • Angika: “कोलोंबिया”
  • Arabic: “كولومبيا”
  • Aragonese: “Colombia”
  • Armenian: “Կոլումբիա”
  • Arpitan: “Colombia”
  • Arpitan: “Colombie”
  • Assamese: “কলম্বিয়া”
  • Asturian: “co”
  • Asturian: “Colombia”
  • Asturian: “República de Colombia”
  • Atayal: “Columbia”
  • Atikamekw: “Colombie”
  • Avaric: “Колумбия”
  • Awadhi: “कोलम्बिया”
  • Aymara: “Kuluwya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kolumbiya Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kolumbiya”
  • Balinese: “Kolombia”
  • Bambara: “Kolombi”
  • Banjar: “Colombia”
  • Banjar: “Kolombia”
  • Bashkir: “Колумбия”
  • Basque: “Kolonbia”
  • Basque: “Kolonbiako Errepublika”
  • Batak Toba: “Kolombia”
  • Bavarian: “Kolumbien”
  • Belarusian: “Калумбія”
  • Belarusian: “Калюмбія”
  • Bengali: “কলম্বিয়া”
  • Bengali: “কোলোম্বিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Kolombia”
  • Bhojpuri: “कोलंबिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “কলম্বিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Colombia”
  • Bislama: “Kolombia”
  • Bole: “Kolombiya”
  • Bosnian: “Kolumbija”
  • Breton: “Kolombia”
  • Bulgarian: “Колумбия”
  • Burmese: “ကိုလံဘီယာ”
  • Burmese: “ကိုလံဘီယာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Colòmbia”
  • Catalan: “República de Colòmbia”
  • Cebuano: “Colombia”
  • Cebuano: “Kolombiya”
  • Cebuano: “Kolombya”
  • Central Bikol: “Kolombya”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆڵۆمبیا”
  • Chamorro: “Colombia”
  • Chavacano: “Colombia”
  • Chechen: “Колумби”
  • Cherokee: “ᎪᎸᎻᏈᎢᎠ”
  • Cheyenne: “Colombia”
  • Chinese: “哥伦比亚 / 哥倫比亞”
  • Chinese: “哥伦比亚”
  • Chinese: “哥伦比亚共和国”
  • Chinese: “哥倫比亞”
  • Choctaw: “Kolo̱mbiya”
  • Chuvash: “Колумби”
  • Cornish: “Kolombi”
  • Corsican: “Colombia”
  • Corsican: “Culumbia”
  • Corsican: “Republica di Colombia”
  • Corsican: “Republica di Culumbia”
  • Corsican: “Ripublica di Culumbia”
  • Cree: “ᔭᐸᔭᐊᔭᐊᐣ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kolombiya”
  • Croatian: “Kolumbija”
  • Czech: “Kolumbie”
  • Dagbani: “Colombia”
  • Danish: “Colombia”
  • Dhivehi: “ކޮލަންބިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kolombiya”
  • Dinka: “Colombia”
  • Dotyali: “कोलम्बिया”
  • Dutch: “Colombia”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Colombia”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀོ་ལོམ་བྷི་ཡ”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Колумбий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولومبيا”
  • Emilian: “Colombia”
  • Erzya: “Колумбия”
  • Esperanto: “Kolombio”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Kolombio”
  • Estonian: “Colombia Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Colombia”
  • Estonian: “Columbia”
  • Estonian: “Kolumbia”
  • Ewe: “Colombia”
  • Ewe: “Kolombia nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Colombia”
  • Extremaduran: “Colómbia”
  • Faroese: “Kolombia”
  • Faroese: “Kolumbia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Colombia”
  • Fijian: “Colombia”
  • Finnish: “Kolumbia”
  • Finnish: “Kolumbian tasavalta”
  • French: “Col.”
  • French: “Colombie”
  • French: “la République de Colombie”
  • French: “République de Colombie”
  • Friulian: “Colombie”
  • Fulah: “Colombia”
  • Fulah: “Kolombiya”
  • Gagauz: “Kolumbiya”
  • Galician: “Colombia”
  • Gan Chinese: “哥倫比亞”
  • Ganda: “Kolombya”
  • Georgian: “კოლომბია”
  • Georgian: “კოლუმბია”
  • German: “Kolumbien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Colombia”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبيا”
  • Goan Konkani: “Colombia”
  • Goan Konkani: “कोलंबिया”
  • Gorontalo: “Kolombia”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌿𐌼𐌱𐌾𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐍉𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌱𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Κολομβίας”
  • Greek: “Κολομβία”
  • Guarani: “Kolómbia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lakolonbi”
  • Gujarati: “કોલમ્બિયા”
  • Gujarati: “કોલમ્બીયા”
  • Haitian: “Kolonbi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Colombia”
  • Hausa: “Kolambiya”
  • Hausa: “Kolombiya”
  • Hawaiian: “Kolomupia”
  • Hebrew: “קולומביה”
  • Hindi: “कोलंबिया”
  • Hindi: “कोलम्बिया”
  • Hungarian: “Kolumbia”
  • Hungarian: “Kolumbiai Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Kolombia”
  • Icelandic: “Kólumbía”
  • Ido: “Kolumbia”
  • Igbo: “Colombia”
  • Iloko: “Colombia”
  • Inari Sami: “Kolumbia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Kolumbia”
  • Indonesian: “Kolombia”
  • Indonesian: “Kolumbia”
  • Interlingua: “Colombia”
  • Interlingue: “Columbia”
  • Irish: “an Cholóim”
  • Irish: “An Cholóim”
  • Italian: “Colombia”
  • Italian: “Repubblica di Colombia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kolombia”
  • Japanese: “コロンビア”
  • Japanese: “コロンビア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Kolombia”
  • Jèrriais: “Coloumbie”
  • Kabardian: “Колумбиэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Kolombi”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Kolómbia”
  • Kabyle: “Kulumbya”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Colombia”
  • Kalaallisut: “Colombia”
  • Kalmyk: “Коламбудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲಂಬಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲೊಂಬಿಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kolumbiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Колумбия”
  • Kashmiri: “کولَمبِیا”
  • Kashmiri: “کولومبیٛا”
  • Kashubian: “Kolumbiô”
  • Kashubian: “Kòlumbiô”
  • Kazakh: “Колумбия Республикасы”
  • Kazakh: “Колумбия”
  • Khmer: “កូឡុំប៊ី”
  • Kikuyu: “Colombia”
  • Kikuyu: “Kolombia”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kolombiya”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kolombya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kolombiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Колумбия”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Колумбия”
  • Komi: “Колумбия”
  • Kongo: “Kolombia”
  • Korean: “꼴롬비아”
  • Korean: “콜롬비아”
  • Kotava: “Kolombia”
  • Kurdish: “Kolombiya”
  • Ladin: “Colombia”
  • Ladino: “Kolombia”
  • Lak: “Колумбия”
  • Lao: “ໂຄລົມເບຍ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດໂກໂລມບີ”
  • Latgalian: “Kolumbeja”
  • Latin: “Columbia”
  • Latvian: “Kolumbija”
  • Lezghian: “Колумбия”
  • Ligurian: “Colombia”
  • Limburgan: “Colombia”
  • Lingala: “Kolombi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Colombia”
  • Literary Chinese: “哥倫比亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolumbija”
  • Livvi: “Kolumbii”
  • Lojban: “kolombias”
  • Lombard: “Culumbia”
  • Low German: “Colombia”
  • Low German: “Kolumbien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kolumbiska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Kolombi”
  • Lule Sami: “Colåmbå republihkka”
  • Lule Sami: “Colåmbå republijkka”
  • Lule Sami: “Colåmmbå”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kolumbien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Columbia”
  • Macedonian: “Колумбија”
  • Madurese: “Kolombia”
  • Malagasy: “Kolombia”
  • Malagasy: “Kôlômbia”
  • Malay: “Colombia”
  • Malay: “کولومبيا”
  • Malayalam: “കൊളംബിയ”
  • Maltese: “il-Kolombja”
  • Maltese: “Kolombja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Kolombja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯂꯝꯕꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Cholombey”
  • Manx: “Yn Cholombey”
  • Maori: “Koromōpia”
  • Marathi: “कोलंबिया”
  • Marathi: “कोलम्बिया”
  • Mazanderani: “کلمبیا جمهوری”
  • Mazanderani: “کلمبیا”
  • Mazanderani: “کلمبیای جمهوری”
  • Mazanderani: “کلومبیا”
  • Mazanderani: “کولمبیا”
  • Mazanderani: “کولومبیا جوموری”
  • Mazanderani: “کولومبیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Colombia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Colombia”
  • Minangkabau: “Kolombia”
  • Mingrelian: “კოლუმბია”
  • Mirandese: “Colómbia”
  • Moksha: “Колумбия”
  • Mongolian: “Колумб”
  • Mongolian: “Колумби”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كولومبيا”
  • Mossi: “Colombia”
  • Nauru: “Korombiya”
  • Neapolitan: “Colombia”
  • Neapolitan: “Colombie”
  • Nepali: “कोलम्बिया”
  • Nepali: “कोलोम्बिया”
  • Newari: “कोलम्बिया”
  • Newari: “कोलोम्बिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Kholombiya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kolumbien”
  • Northern Luri: “کلمبیا”
  • Northern Sami: “Colombia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Colombia”
  • Northern Sami: “Kolombia”
  • Northern Sami: “Kolumbia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Kolumbia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colombia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Colombia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colombia”
  • Norwegian: “Colombia”
  • Novial: “Kolombia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Colombia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Colómbia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Colòmbia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica de Colómbia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica de Colòmbia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܘܠܘܡܒܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Colombia”
  • Oriya: “କଲମ୍ବିଆ”
  • Oriya: “କଲୋମ୍ବିଆ”
  • Oriya: “କୋଲମ୍ବିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Colombia”
  • Oromo: “Kolombiyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Колумби”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ကိုလံဗီယာခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “कोलोम्बिया”
  • Pampanga: “Colombia”
  • Pampanga: “Kolombia”
  • Pangasinan: “Colombia”
  • Pangasinan: “Columbia”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਲੰਬੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Colombia”
  • Pedi: “Kolombia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Kolumbien”
  • Persian: “کلمبیا”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Kolumbien”
  • Picard: “Colombie”
  • Piemontese: “Colombia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Colombia”
  • Polish: “Kolumbia”
  • Pontic: “Κολομβία”
  • Portuguese: “Colômbia”
  • Portuguese: “República da Colômbia”
  • Pushto: “کولمبيا”
  • Pushto: “کولمبیا”
  • Quechua: “Colombia”
  • Quechua: “Kulumbiya”
  • Quechua: “Kulumbya”
  • Quechua: “Kulumpia”
  • Quechua: “Kulumpiya”
  • Quechua: “Kulunsuyu”
  • Romanian: “Columbia”
  • Romanian: “Republica Columbia”
  • Romansh: “Colombia”
  • Romansh: “Columbia”
  • Rundi: “Colombia”
  • Rundi: “Kolombiya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Колумби”
  • Russian: “Колумбия”
  • Russian: “Республика Колумбия”
  • Rusyn: “Колумбия”
  • Sakizaya: “Columbia”
  • Samoan: “Kolomupia”
  • Samogitian: “Kolumbėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Kolumbijė”
  • Samogitian: “Kuolombėjė”
  • Sango: “Colombia”
  • Sango: “Kolombïi”
  • Sanskrit: “कोलोम्बिया”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱞᱚᱢᱵᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Colòmbia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kolumbien”
  • Scots: “Colombie”
  • Scots: “Columbie”
  • Scots: “Republic o Colombie”
  • Scots: “Republic o Columbie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Coloimbia”
  • Serbian: “Kolumbija”
  • Serbian: “Колумбија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kolumbija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵူဝ်ႇလမ်ႇပီႇယႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Colombia”
  • Shona: “Kolombia”
  • Sicilian: “Colombia”
  • Silesian: “Kolůmbijo”
  • Sindhi: “ڪولمبيا”
  • Sinhala: “කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “කොළොම්බියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kolumbia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kolumbia”
  • Slovak: “Kolumbia”
  • Slovak: “Kolumbijská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Kolumbija”
  • Slovenian: “República de Colombia”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Kolumbija”
  • Somali: “Kolombiya”
  • Somali: “Koloombiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کولومبیا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Colombia”
  • Spanish: “Colombia”
  • Spanish: “República de Colombia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Kolombikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵓⵍⵓⵎⴱⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Kolombia”
  • Swahili: “Kolombia”
  • Swati: “IKholombiya”
  • Swedish: “Colombia”
  • Swedish: “República de Colombia”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Colombia”
  • Swiss German: “Kolumbie”
  • Swiss German: “Kolumbien”
  • Tachelhit: “Kulumbya”
  • Tagalog: “Colombia”
  • Tahitian: “Colombia”
  • Tahitian: “Toromepia”
  • Tajik: “Колумбия”
  • Tajik: “Кулумбия”
  • Talysh: “Kolumbijə”
  • Talysh: “Kolumbiya”
  • Tamil: “கொலம்பியா”
  • Taroko: “Columbia”
  • Tatar: “Колумбия”
  • Telugu: “ISO 3166-1:CO”
  • Telugu: “కొలంబియా”
  • Telugu: “రిపబ్లిక్ ఆఫ్ కొలంబియా”
  • Tetum: “Kolómbia”
  • Thai: “โคลอมเบีย”
  • Thai: “โคลัมเบีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศโคลอมเบีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཀོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཁོ་ལོམ་བི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሪፓብሊክ ኮሎምብያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኮሎምቢያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኮሎምብያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kolambia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kolomipia”
  • Tsonga: “Colombia”
  • Tswana: “Colombia”
  • Tulu: “ಕೊಲೊಂಬಿಯ”
  • Tumbuka: “Colombia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “كولومبيا”
  • Turkish: “Kolombiya”
  • Turkmen: “Kolumbiýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Колумбия”
  • Twi: “Colombia”
  • Udmurt: “Колумбия”
  • Uighur: “كولومبىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Колумбія”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Колумбія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kolumbiska”
  • Urdu: “کولمبیا”
  • Uzbek: “Kolumbiya”
  • Venda: “Colombia”
  • Venetian: “Cołónbia”
  • Veps: “Kolumbii”
  • Vietnamese: “Cô-lôm-bi-a (Colombia)”
  • Vietnamese: “Cô-lôm-bi-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Colombia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Colombia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Colombia”
  • Vlaams: “Colombia”
  • Vlax Romani: “Kolombiya”
  • Volapük: “Kolumbän”
  • Võro: “Colombia”
  • Võro: “Kolumbia”
  • Walloon: “Colombeye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colombia”
  • Wayuu: “Kolompia”
  • Welsh: “Colombia”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Colombia”
  • Western Armenian: “Քոլումպիա”
  • Western Balochi: “کولومبیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Kolombia”
  • Western Mari: “Колумби”
  • Western Panjabi: “کولمبیا”
  • Wolof: “Kolombi”
  • Wolof: “Koloombi”
  • Wu Chinese: “哥伦比亚”
  • Xhosa: “IsiColombia”
  • Yakut: “Колумбия”
  • Yiddish: “קאלאמביע”
  • Yoruba: “Kòlómbìà”
  • Yoruba: “Kòlómíbìa”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥倫比亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Colombia”
  • Zhuang: “Gohlunzbijya”
  • Zulu: “i-Colombia”
  • Zulu: “IKolombiya”
  • “ma Kolonpija”

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