The country's population, estimated at 12 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Mestizos, Europeans, Asians, and Africans. With 1,098,581 km 2 (424,164 sq mi) of area, Bolivia is the fifth largest country in South America, after Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia (and alongside Paraguay, one of the only two landlocked countries in the Americas), the 27th largest in the world, the largest landlocked country in the Southern Hemisphere, and the world's seventh largest landlocked country, after Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Chad, Niger, Mali, and Ethiopia. One-third of the country is within the Andean mountain range. It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil, to the southeast by Paraguay, to the south by Argentina, to the southwest by Chile, and to the northwest by Peru. Its geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern Lowlands, situated within the Amazon basin. The sovereign state of Bolivia is a constitutionally unitary state, divided into nine departments. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales (tropical lowlands), a mostly flat region in the east of the country. The seat of government and executive capital is La Paz, while the constitutional capital is Sucre. See below.īolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
^ While Sucre is the constitutional capital, La Paz is the seat of government and the executive capital.
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