La Paz

La Paz is the administrative capital of , while is the constitutional capital and the seat of the Supreme Court.
  • City with about 756,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 3,640 metres (11,940 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code LPB
  • Description: capital city and seat of government of Bolivia
  • Also known as
    “Chuqi Yapu”
    “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
  • Established: October 20, 1548

Places of Interest

Highlights include Casa Grande del Pueblo and Estadio Hernando Siles.
Stadium
Hernando Siles Stadium, also known as Estadio Olímpico…
Square
The is the central plaza of the city…
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Latitude
-16.5° or 16° 30′ south
Longitude
-68.15° or 68° 9′ west
UN/LOCODE
BO LPB
Open location code
57MHGR2X+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“La Paz” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Achinese: “La Paz”
  • Adyghe: “Ла-Пас”
  • Afrikaans: “La Paz”
  • Albanian: “La Paz”
  • Amharic: “ላፓዝ”
  • Arabic: “لاباز”
  • Aragonese: “La Paz”
  • Armenian: “Լա Պաս”
  • Arpitan: “La Paz”
  • Asturian: “La Paz”
  • Aymara: “Chukiyawu”
  • Aymara: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Azerbaijani: “La Pas”
  • Balinese: “La Paz”
  • Basque: “La Paz”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Belarusian: “Ля Пас”
  • Bengali: “লা পাজ”
  • Bosnian: “La Paz”
  • Breton: “La Paz”
  • Bulgarian: “Ла Пас”
  • Catalan: “La Paz”
  • Cebuano: “La Paz (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “La Paz”
  • Central Kurdish: “لاپاز”
  • Chinese: “拉巴斯”
  • Croatian: “La Paz”
  • Czech: “La Paz”
  • Danish: “La Paz”
  • Dimli (individual language): “La Paz”
  • Dutch: “La Paz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لا پاز”
  • Esperanto: “La-Pazo”
  • Estonian: “La Paz”
  • Finnish: “La Paz”
  • French: “La Paz”
  • Galician: “A Paz”
  • Galician: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Georgian: “ლა-პასი”
  • German: “La Paz”
  • Greek: “Λα Παζ”
  • Greek: “Λα Πας”
  • Greek: “Σούκρε/Λα Παζ”
  • Guarani: “La Pas”
  • Guarani: “La Paz”
  • Gujarati: “લા પાઝ”
  • Haitian: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Haitian: “La Paz”
  • Hebrew: “לה פאס”
  • Hindi: “ला पास”
  • Hungarian: “Chuquiyapu”
  • Hungarian: “La Paz”
  • Hungarian: “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
  • Icelandic: “La Paz”
  • Ido: “La Paz”
  • Inari Sami: “Chupiyapu”
  • Indonesian: “La Paz, Bolivia”
  • Indonesian: “La Paz”
  • Interlingua: “La Paz”
  • Interlingue: “La Paz”
  • Irish: “La Paz”
  • Italian: “La Paz”
  • Italian: “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
  • Japanese: “ラパス”
  • Javanese: “La Paz”
  • Kabyle: “La Paz”
  • Kalaallisut: “La Paz”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾ ಪಾಝ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “La Pas”
  • Kazakh: “Ла-Пас”
  • Kirghiz: “Ла-Пас шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Ла-Пас”
  • Kongo: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Kongo: “La Paz”
  • Korean: “라파스”
  • Kotava: “La Paz”
  • Kurdish: “La Paz”
  • Ladino: “La Paz”
  • Latin: “Civitas Pacensis”
  • Latin: “Pax”
  • Latvian: “Lapasa”
  • Ligurian: “La Paz”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “La Pas”
  • Lithuanian: “La Pasas”
  • Lombard: “La Paz”
  • Luxembourgish: “La Paz”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Паз”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Пас”
  • Malagasy: “La Paz”
  • Malay: “La Paz”
  • Malayalam: “ലാ പാസ്”
  • Maltese: “La Paz”
  • Maori: “La Paz, Poriwia”
  • Marathi: “ला पाझ”
  • Mazanderani: “لاپاز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “La Paz”
  • Mingrelian: “ლა-პასი”
  • Moksha: “Ла Пас”
  • Mongolian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لاپاز”
  • Nauru: “La Paz”
  • Northern Frisian: “La Paz”
  • Northern Luri: “لاپاز”
  • Northern Sami: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Paz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Paz”
  • Norwegian: “La Paz”
  • Novial: “La Paz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Patz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Paz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòstra Dama de la Patz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nuestra Señora de la Paz”
  • Oriya: “ଲାପାଜ”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾ ਪਾਸ”
  • Papiamento: “La Paz”
  • Persian: “لاپاز”
  • Picard: “La Paz”
  • Piemontese: “La Paz”
  • Polish: “La Paz”
  • Portuguese: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Portuguese: “La Paz, Bolívia”
  • Portuguese: “La Paz”
  • Portuguese: “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
  • Quechua: “Chuqiyapu llaqta”
  • Quechua: “Chuqiyapu”
  • Romanian: “La Paz”
  • Romansh: “La Paz”
  • Russian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱟ ᱯᱟᱡᱽ”
  • Sardinian: “La Paz”
  • Scots: “La Paz”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “La Paz”
  • Serbian: “Ла Паз”
  • Serbian: “Ла Пас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Paz”
  • Shona: “Chuqi Yapu”
  • Shona: “La Paz”
  • Sicilian: “La Paz”
  • Silesian: “La Paz”
  • Sindhi: “لا پاز”
  • Sinhala: “ලා පාස්, බොලිවියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ලා පාස්”
  • Slovak: “La Paz”
  • Slovenian: “La Paz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لاپاز”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad La Paz”
  • Spanish: “La Paz”
  • Spanish: “Nuestra Señora de La Paz”
  • Swahili: “La Paz”
  • Swedish: “La Paz”
  • Tagalog: “La Paz”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng La Paz”
  • Tajik: “Ла-Пас (Боливия)”
  • Tajik: “Ла-Пас”
  • Tamil: “லா பாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “La-Pas”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Пас”
  • Telugu: “లా పాజ్”
  • Thai: “ลาปาซ”
  • Tibetan: “ལ་པ་ས་”
  • Turkish: “La Paz”
  • Turkmen: “La-pas”
  • Udmurt: “Ла-Пас”
  • Uighur: “لا پاز”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Upper Sorbian: “La Paz”
  • Urdu: “لا پاز”
  • Uzbek: “La Pas”
  • Uzbek: “La Paz”
  • Venetian: “La Paz”
  • Veps: “La Pas”
  • Vietnamese: “La Paz”
  • Volapük: “La Paz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Paz”
  • Welsh: “La Paz”
  • Western Frisian: “La Paz”
  • Wu Chinese: “和平城”
  • Yiddish: “לא פאז”
  • Yoruba: “La Paz”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉巴斯”
  • Zeeuws: “La Paz”
  • Zulu: “i-La Paz”

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