Venezuela
Venezuela (officially Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) is a country in South America, with its capital at Caracas, and is home to roughly 28.4M people.
Spanish is the official language; the currency in circulation is Venezuelan bolívar soberano (Bs.S.); people from here are called Venezuelan.
- »Angel Falls is the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world, at 979 m.
- »Lake Maracaibo sees an extraordinary concentration of lightning storms, the Catatumbo lightning.
Venezuela touches three neighbours: Brazil to the southeast, Colombia to the southwest and Guyana to the east. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Caracas sits in a narrow valley separated from the Caribbean by the Ávila mountain, so the city is close to the sea but has no coastline of its own.
914,808 km² (353,209 sq mi), 31st largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Nigeria.
Population 28,405,543, 53rd of 198 on file. That averages 31 per km² (80 per sq mi).
The eight stars are the provinces that signed the declaration of independence; an eighth was added in 2006 on Chávez's initiative, following a wish attributed to Bolívar.
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