Bolivia - Boliwia

Bolivia
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Main information
Capital city	La Paz, Sucre
Political system	republic
Currency	boliviano
Surface	1 098 580
Population	11 051 600
Tongue	Spanish
religion	Catholicism
Code	591
Internet domain	.because
Time zone	UTC -4
Time zone	UTC -4

Bolivia - a country on the continent South American. It borders with Brazil in the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina in the south and with Chile and Peru in the West. The state has no access to the sea.

Characteristic

Geography

Climate

History

Policy

Drive

By car

By plane

The main airports are La Paz-El Alto and Santa Cruz-Viru Viru.

By ship

Regions

Bolivia is divided into departments (department capitals in parentheses):

   Chuquisaca (Sucre) Cochabamba (Cochabamba) Beni (Trinidad) La Paz (La Paz) Oruro (Oruro) Pando (Cobija) Potosí (Potosí) Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz de la Sierra) Tarija (Tarija)

Cities

According to official data from 2010, Bolivia had over 50 cities with a population of over 10,000. residents. The urban population constitutes 51.4% of the total population of Bolivia. However, there are several cities here that exceed half a million inhabitants. The largest city in the country is Santa Cruz, which, thanks to the dynamic demographic development in the 1990s, overtook the capital of the country, La Paz, and was the only city with over a million inhabitants; 3 cities with a population of 500 ÷ 1000 thousand; 6 cities with a population of 100,000 ÷ 500,000; 6 cities with a population of 50,000 ÷ 100,000; 7 cities with a population of 25,000 ÷ 50,000 and the rest of the cities below 25,000 residents.

• La Paz
• Cochabamba
• Oruro
• Potosí
• Santa Cruz de la Sierra
• Sucre
• Tarija
• Tupiza
• Trinidad

Interesting places

Objects from the UNESCO World Heritage List

• Fort Samaipata
• City Potosí
• Jesuit missions in the area inhabited by Chiquitos
• Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
• Tiwanaku: the spiritual and political center of the Tiwanaku culture
• The historic city Sucre

Transport

Tongue

The official language is Spanish.

Shopping

Gastronomy

Accommodation

Security

Health

contact

Diplomatic missions accredited in Bolivia

A country served by the Polish Embassy in Lima (Peru).

Diplomatic representations accredited in Poland

No facility - Poland is served by the Embassy of the Multinational State of Bolivia in Berlin (Germany).