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is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, in northern Venezuela, near the . Venezuela’s urban spirit can be discovered mainly from understanding , its capital city, a busy metropolis famous for its food, cultural diversity, and perfect climate, thanks to the unique combination of a high elevation and proximity to the Caribbean Sea.

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the capital of State, is located in Venezuela, at the foot of the , 15 kilometers from Venezuela's highest point. It is the centre for outdoor activities in Venezuela.

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is the capital of state in , and is the second largest city in the country after . It has more than 2 million people and it's famous for its typical music, big shopping malls and beautiful parks.

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The Region is an administrative region of eastern Venezuela. Historically called Spanish Guiana or simply , the region is made up of the states of , , and the south of .

The region is in north Venezuela. It encompasses the states of Distrito Capital, , , and .

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The Andean Region is one of the 10 administrative regions in which Venezuela was divided for its development plans in 1969.

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The are in Venezuela. Venezuela has more coastline and off shore Islands than any other destination in all of the Caribbean. Venezuela remains the last unspoiled part of the Caribbean, maintaining its authentic beauty and idiosyncrasy.

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The is a region in Venezuela.

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is the vast plains region covering much of central and southwestern Venezuela.

The region of Venezuela borders the Caribbean Sea, with many beaches and salt water marshes.

Venezuela

Latitude of center
7.14° or 7° 8′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
-66.31° or 66° 18′ 36″ west
Population
28,900,000
Area
912,050 km² (352,144 miles²)
Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)
Capital
Currency
Bolivar Soberano (VES)
Phone code
.ve
Internet domain
58
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3625428
Wiki­data ID
Q717
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Venezuela” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Венесуела”
  • Achinese: “Vènèzuèla”
  • Adyghe: “Венесуэлэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Venezuela”
  • Akan: “Venezuela”
  • Albanian: “Venezuela”
  • Albanian: “Venezuelë”
  • Amharic: “ቬኔዝዌላ”
  • Amharic: “ቬንዙዌላ”
  • Amis: “Venezuela”
  • Angika: “वेनेजुएला”
  • Arabic: “فنزويلا”
  • Aragonese: “Benezuela”
  • Aragonese: “Venezuela”
  • Armenian: “Վենեսուելա”
  • Arpitan: “Vènèçuèla”
  • Arpitan: “Venezuèla”
  • Assamese: “ভেনিজুৱেলা”
  • Asturian: “Estaos Xuníos de Venezuela”
  • Asturian: “Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela”
  • Asturian: “VE”
  • Asturian: “Venezuela”
  • Atayal: “Venezuela”
  • Avaric: “Венесуэла”
  • Awadhi: “वेनेज़ुएला”
  • Aymara: “Winïxwila”
  • Azerbaijani: “Venesuela”
  • Balinese: “Vénézuéla”
  • Bambara: “Venezuela”
  • Bambara: “Venezuwela”
  • Bashkir: “Венесуэла”
  • Basque: “Venezuela”
  • Basque: “Venezuelako Bolibartar Errepublika”
  • Bavarian: “Venezuela”
  • Belarusian: “Венесуэла”
  • Belarusian: “Вэнэсуэла”
  • Bengali: “ভেনিজুয়েলা”
  • Bengali: “ভেনেজুয়েলা”
  • Betawi: “Bénésuèla”
  • Bhojpuri: “वेनेजुएला”
  • Bishnupriya: “ভেনেজুয়েলা”
  • Bislama: “Veneswela”
  • Bislama: “Venezuela”
  • Bosnian: “Venecuela”
  • Breton: “Republik Volivarian Venezuela”
  • Breton: “Venezuela”
  • Bulgarian: “Венецуела”
  • Burmese: “ဗင်နီဇွဲလား”
  • Burmese: “ဗင်နီဇွဲလားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Estats Units de Venezuela”
  • Catalan: “Veneçuela”
  • Cebuano: “Beneswela”
  • Cebuano: “Venezuela”
  • Central Bikol: “Benesuela”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤێنیزوێلا”
  • Chamorro: “Venezuela”
  • Chavacano: “Venezuela”
  • Chechen: “Венесуэла”
  • Cherokee: “ᏪᏁᏑᏪᎳ”
  • Chinese: “Venezuela”
  • Chinese: “委內瑞拉”
  • Chinese: “委内瑞拉”
  • Chuvash: “Венесуэла”
  • Cornish: “Veneswela”
  • Cornish: “Venezwela”
  • Corsican: “Republica Bolivariana di u Venezuela”
  • Corsican: “Ripublica Bolivariana di u Venezuela”
  • Corsican: “Venezuela”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Venesuela”
  • Croatian: “Venezuela”
  • Czech: “Bolívarovská republika Venezuela”
  • Czech: “Venezuela”
  • Dagbani: “Venezuela”
  • Danish: “Venezuela”
  • Dhivehi: “ވެނެޒުއޭލާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Venezuela”
  • Dotyali: “भेनेजुयला”
  • Dutch: “Bolivariaanse Republiek Venezuela”
  • Dutch: “VE”
  • Dutch: “VEN”
  • Dutch: “Venezuela”
  • Dzongkha: “བེ་ནི་ཛུ་ཝེ་ལ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Венесуэла”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤينيزويلا”
  • Erzya: “Венесуэла”
  • Esperanto: “Bolivara Respubliko Venezuelo”
  • Esperanto: “VE”
  • Esperanto: “Venezuelo”
  • Estonian: “Venetsueela”
  • Estonian: “Venezuela Bolívari Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Venezuela”
  • Ewe: “Venezuela nutome”
  • Ewe: “Venezuela”
  • Extremaduran: “Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela”
  • Extremaduran: “Repúbrica Bolivariana de Veneçuela”
  • Extremaduran: “Veneçuela”
  • Faroese: “Venesuela”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Venezuela”
  • Fijian: “Venezuela”
  • Finnish: “Venezuela”
  • Finnish: “Venezuelan bolivariaaninen tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Venezuelatò”
  • French: “République bolivarienne du Venezuela”
  • French: “République bolivarienne du Vénézuéla”
  • French: “VE”
  • French: “Venezuela”
  • French: “Vénézuela”
  • French: “Vénézuéla”
  • Friulian: “Venezuela”
  • Fulah: “Wenesuwela”
  • Fulah: “Wenesuwelaa”
  • Gagauz: “Venesuela”
  • Galician: “Venezuela”
  • Ganda: “Venzwera”
  • Georgian: “ვენესუელა”
  • German: “Bolivarische Republik Venezuela”
  • German: “Venezuela”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Venezuela”
  • Gilaki: “ونزۊئلا”
  • Goan Konkani: “Venezuela”
  • Goan Konkani: “व्हेनेझुएला”
  • Gothic: “𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃”
  • Greek: “Βενεζουέλα”
  • Greek: “Μπολιβαριανή Δημοκρατία της Βενεζουέλας”
  • Guarani: “Venesuéla”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Vénézwéla”
  • Gujarati: “વેનેઝુએલા”
  • Haitian: “Venezwela”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Venezuela”
  • Hausa: “Benezuwela”
  • Hausa: “Venezuela”
  • Hawaiian: “Wenekola”
  • Hebrew: “ונצואלה”
  • Hindi: “वेनेजुएला”
  • Hindi: “वेनेज़ुएला”
  • Hindi: “वेनेज़्वेला”
  • Hungarian: “Venezuela”
  • Hungarian: “Venezuelai Bolivári Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Venesúela”
  • Ido: “Venezuela”
  • Igbo: “Venezuela”
  • Iloko: “Venezuela”
  • Inari Sami: “Venezuela bolivariaanlâš täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Venezuela”
  • Indonesian: “Venezuela”
  • Ingush: “Боливариа́нхой Респу́блика Венесуэ́ла”
  • Ingush: “Венесуэла”
  • Interlingua: “Venezuela”
  • Interlingue: “Venezuela”
  • Irish: “Veiniséala”
  • Italian: “Repubblica Bolivariana del Venezuela”
  • Italian: “Venezuela”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Venizuela”
  • Japanese: “ベネズエラ・ボリバル共和国”
  • Japanese: “ベネズエラ”
  • Japanese: “ベネズエラ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Vénésuéla”
  • Javanese: “Venezuela”
  • Javanese: “Vénézuéla”
  • Kabardian: “Венесуелэ”
  • Kabardian: “Венесуэлэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Fenezuyeelaa”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Vinizuela”
  • Kabyle: “Venezuela”
  • Kalaallisut: “Venezuela”
  • Kalmyk: “Боливара Венесулмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ವೆನೆಜುವೆಲಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Venesuela”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Венесуэла”
  • Kashmiri: “وینازوٗلا”
  • Kashmiri: “وینَزوٗیِلا”
  • Kashubian: “Wenezuelskô”
  • Kazakh: “Венесуэла”
  • Khmer: “វេណេស៊ុយអេឡា”
  • Khmer: “វ៉េណេស៊ុយអេឡា”
  • Kikuyu: “Venezuela”
  • Kinaray-A: “Beneswela”
  • Kinaray-A: “Biniswila”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Venezuwela”
  • Kirghiz: “Венесуэла”
  • Kongo: “Beneswela”
  • Korean: “베네수엘라”
  • Korean: “베네주엘라”
  • Kotava: “Venezuela”
  • Kurdish: “Venezuela”
  • Kurdish: “Venezuêla”
  • Ladin: “Venezuela”
  • Ladino: “Venezuela”
  • Ladino: “בנצואלה”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເວເນຊຸເອລາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເວເນຊູເອລາ”
  • Lao: “ເວເນຊູເອລາ”
  • Latgalian: “Venecuela”
  • Latin: “Venetiola”
  • Latvian: “Venecuēla”
  • Lezghian: “Венесуэла”
  • Ligurian: “Venezuela”
  • Limburgan: “Venezuela”
  • Lingala: “Venézuela”
  • Lingala: “Venezwela”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Venezuela”
  • Literary Chinese: “委內瑞拉”
  • Lithuanian: “Venesuela”
  • Livvi: “Venesuela”
  • Lojban: “benesuel”
  • Lombard: “Venezuela”
  • Low German: “Bolivaarse Republiek Venezuela”
  • Low German: “Venezuela”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Venezuela”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Venezuela”
  • Lule Sami: “Venezuella”
  • Lule Sami: “Venezuiella”
  • Luxembourgish: “Venezuela”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Venetsuela”
  • Macedonian: “Венецуела”
  • Madurese: “Venezuela”
  • Maithili: “भेनेजुएला”
  • Malagasy: “Venezoela”
  • Malagasy: “Venezoelà”
  • Malay: “Venezuela”
  • Malay: “ۏينيزويلا”
  • Malayalam: “വെനസ്വേല”
  • Malayalam: “വെനിസ്വേല”
  • Maltese: “il-Venezwela”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Bolivarjana tal-Venezwela”
  • Maltese: “Venezwela”
  • Maltese: “Veneżwela”
  • Manipuri: “ꯚꯦꯅꯦꯓꯨꯑꯦꯂꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Veneswaaley”
  • Manx: “Yn Veneswaaley”
  • Maori: “Wenehūera”
  • Marathi: “व्हेनेझुएला”
  • Mazanderani: “ونزوئلا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Venezuela”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Venezuela”
  • Minangkabau: “Venezuela”
  • Mingrelian: “ვენესუელა”
  • Mirandese: “Benezuela”
  • Moksha: “Вэнэзуэла”
  • Mongolian: “Венесуэл”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤينيزويلا”
  • Narom: “Vénézuéla”
  • Navajo: “Táłkááʼ Bighan Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Venezuela”
  • Nepali: “भेनेजुएला”
  • Newari: “भेनेजुएला”
  • North Ndebele: “Venezuela”
  • Northern Frisian: “Weenesuela”
  • Northern Luri: “ونزوئلا”
  • Northern Sami: “Venezuela bolivarlaš dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Venezuela”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “den Bolivarianske Republikken Venezuela”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Venezuela”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Venezuela”
  • Norwegian: “Venezuela”
  • Novial: “Venezuela”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica Bolivariana de Veneçuèla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Veneçuèla”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܢܙܘܝܠܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Feneswela”
  • Oriya: “ଭେନେଜୁଏଲା”
  • Oromo: “Venezu’eelaa”
  • Ossetian: “Венесуэлæ”
  • Pali: “वेनेज्वेला”
  • Pampanga: “Benesuela”
  • Pampanga: “Beneswela”
  • Pangasinan: “Venezuela”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੇਨੇਜ਼ੂਏਲਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਨੇਜ਼ੁਐਲਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਨੇਜ਼ੁਏਲਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Republika Bolivariano di Venezuela”
  • Papiamento: “Venezuela”
  • Pedi: “Venezuela”
  • Persian: “ونزوئلا”
  • Persian: “ونیزویلا”
  • Picard: “Venezuela”
  • Piemontese: “Venessuela”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Wenezuela”
  • Polish: “Boliwariańska Republika Wenezueli”
  • Polish: “Estados Unidos de Venezuela”
  • Polish: “República Bolivariana de Venezuela”
  • Polish: “VE”
  • Polish: “VEN”
  • Polish: “Wenezuela”
  • Portuguese: “República Bolivariana da Venezuela”
  • Portuguese: “Venezuela”
  • Pushto: “وینزویلا”
  • Pushto: “وېنزوېلا”
  • Quechua: “Biniswila”
  • Quechua: “Venezuela”
  • Quechua: “Winisuyla”
  • Romanian: “Venezuela”
  • Romansh: “Venezuela”
  • Rundi: “Venezuela”
  • Rundi: “Venezuwela”
  • Russia Buriat: “Венесуэла”
  • Russia Buriat: “Венесуэлэ”
  • Russian: “Боливарианская Республика Венесуэла”
  • Russian: “Венесуэла”
  • Rusyn: “Венеcуела”
  • Sakizaya: “Venezuela”
  • Samoan: “Venesuela”
  • Samogitian: “Venesoela”
  • Sango: “Venezueläa”
  • Sanskrit: “वेनेजुयेला”
  • Sanskrit: “वेनेज्वेला”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱷᱮᱱᱮᱡᱩᱭᱮᱞᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Venezuela”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Venezuela”
  • Scots: “Venezuela”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A Bheiniseala”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Bheiniseala”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Bheiniseala”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bhenesuèla”
  • Serbian: “Venecuela”
  • Serbian: “Венецуела”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Venezuela”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဝႄႇၼေႇၸွႆးလႃး”
  • Shona: “Venezuela”
  • Sicilian: “Venezzuela”
  • Silesian: “Wynezuela”
  • Sindhi: “وينزويلا”
  • Sindhi: “وينيزويلا”
  • Sinhala: “කොලොම්බියානා”
  • Sinhala: “වෙනිසියුලාව”
  • Sinhala: “වෙනිසුයෙලාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Venezuela bolivariaanlaž tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Venezuela”
  • Slovak: “Venezuela”
  • Slovak: “Venezuelská bolívarovská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Bolivarska republika Venezuela”
  • Slovenian: “Venezuela”
  • Somali: “Fanansuwela”
  • Somali: “Fenisuweela”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ونزوئلا”
  • Spanish: “Estados Unidos de Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “La Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “La República Bolivariana de Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “RB Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “República Bolivariana de Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “República de Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “VE”
  • Spanish: “Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “Vzla”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Venswelikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⵉⵏⵣⵡⵉⵍⵍⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Vénézuéla”
  • Swahili: “Venezuela”
  • Swedish: “Bolivarianska republiken Venezuela”
  • Swedish: “Venezuela”
  • Swiss German: “Venezuela”
  • Sylheti: “ꠜꠦꠘꠦꠏꠥꠄꠟꠣ”
  • Tagalog: “Venezuela”
  • Tahitian: “Venetuera”
  • Tajik: “Венесуэла”
  • Talysh: “Venesuela”
  • Tamil: “வெனிசுலா”
  • Tamil: “வெனிசுவேலா”
  • Taroko: “Venezuela”
  • Tatar: “Венесуэла”
  • Telugu: “వెనిజులా”
  • Telugu: “వెనుజులా”
  • Telugu: “వెనుజ్వేలా”
  • Tetum: “Venezuela”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเวเนซุเอลา”
  • Thai: “เวเนซุเอลา”
  • Tibetan: “ཝེ་ནི་ཛུའེ་ལ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཝེ་ནེ་ཟུའེ་ལ།”
  • Tigrinya: “VE”
  • Tigrinya: “VEN”
  • Tigrinya: “ቦሊቫርያዊት ሪፓብሊክ ቬኔዝዌላ”
  • Tigrinya: “ቬኔዝዌላ”
  • Tigrinya: “ቬንዙዌላ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Venesuwela”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Venesuela”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Venisuela”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Venezuela”
  • Tumbuka: “Venezuela”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ڥنزويلا”
  • Turkish: “Venezuela”
  • Turkmen: “Wenesuela”
  • Twi: “Venezuela”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Bolivat Venezwela”
  • Tyap: “VE”
  • Tyap: “VEN”
  • Tyap: “Venezwela”
  • Udmurt: “Венесуэла”
  • Uighur: “ۋېنېسۇئېلا”
  • Ukrainian: “Боліварианська Республіка Венесуела”
  • Ukrainian: “Венесуела”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Venezuela”
  • Urdu: “وینزوئیلا”
  • Urdu: “وینیزویلا”
  • Uzbek: “Venesuela”
  • Venda: “Venezuela”
  • Venetian: “Venesueła”
  • Veps: “Venesuel”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Bolivariana Venezuela”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Bolivariana Venezuela”
  • Vietnamese: “Vê-nê-zu-ê-la (Venezuela)”
  • Vietnamese: “Vê-nê-zu-ê-la”
  • Vietnamese: “Venezuela”
  • Vlaams: “Venezuela”
  • Vlax Romani: “Venezuela”
  • Volapük: “Venesolän”
  • Võro: “Venetsueela”
  • Võro: “Venezuela”
  • Walloon: “Venezwela”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Venezuela”
  • Wayuu: “Wenesuweera”
  • Welsh: “Feneswela”
  • Welsh: “Venezuela”
  • Western Armenian: “Վենեզուելա”
  • Western Frisian: “Fenezuëla”
  • Western Frisian: “Venezuela”
  • Western Mari: “Венесуэла”
  • Western Panjabi: “وینزویلا”
  • Wolof: “Benesuwela”
  • Wolof: “Wenesiyela”
  • Wu Chinese: “委内瑞拉”
  • Yakut: “Венесуэла”
  • Yiddish: “ווענעזועלע”
  • Yoruba: “Fenesuela”
  • Yoruba: “Fẹnẹṣuẹla”
  • Yue Chinese: “委內瑞拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “委內瑞拉波利花主義共和國”
  • Zeeuws: “Venezuela”
  • Zhuang: “Veijneisuilah”
  • Zulu: “i-Venezuela”
  • Zulu: “Venezuela”
  • “ma Penesuwela”
  • “ma Wenesuwela”
  • “VE”
  • “VEN”
  • “Venesoela”
  • “Venesüela”
  • “Venezuela”
  • “Vzla”
  • “वेनेजुएला”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Venezuela”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.